Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, is sponsoring in June two educational conferences for parish nurses, congregational health workers and those interested in starting health ministries: The 12th annual Concordia Conference for Parish Nurse and Congregational Health Ministries is scheduled for June…

Meditations on Divine Mercy, new from Concordia Publishing House, offers a contemporary translation of Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard’s Daily Exercise of Piety. Written in the early 1600s, Gerhard’s work is a collection of more than 40 prayers written to comfort…

Officials of President George W. Bush’s administration commended Synod human-care work in remarks at the Jan. 19 inauguration of the new deaconess program at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. “The President is interested in results as they help poor people,”…

By Kim Krull and Joe Isenhower Jr. A new LCMS National Housing Support Corporation is designed to help struggling inner-city congregations receive grants and technical assistance for housing ministries — which has been difficult for them, sources say. The LCMS Board…

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, will inaugurate its new graduate-level deaconess program Jan. 19 with special events on campus featuring officials of President George W. Bush’s administration. Jim Towey, deputy assistant to Bush and director of the Office of Faith…

New from Concordia Publishing House is Meditations on Divine Mercy, a contemporary translation of Johann Gerhard’s Daily Exercise of Piety, a collection of more than 40 prayers written in the early 1600s to comfort people as they faced the problems…