Welcoming seven new presidents elected by delegates to LCMS district conventions this year, the Synod’s Council of Presidents (COP) at its Sept. 19-22 meeting in St. Louis unanimously adopted for use throughout the church a document titled “Theses on Worship”…
By John R. Brooks BALTIMORE — Leaders of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) agreed to do all they could do to continue their longtime cooperative work together in areas of “cooperation in externals,” despite…
“It would be a blessing to our ongoing cooperative relationships” if decisions of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly allowing non-celibate homosexuals to serve as rostered leaders in that church body “were not implemented,” Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod President Gerald B. Kieschnick…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: “Not that my faith is dead, but … I do not feel the same passion I once felt in my faith.” A: This is one sentence of a much larger communication from a writer I…
By Joe Isenhower Jr. The International Lutheran Council (ILC), an association of 34 confessional Lutheran church bodies (including the LCMS) from six continents, has unanimously adopted a statement emphasizing commitment to the Bible’s position on homosexual behavior. The action was…
By Paula Schlueter Ross ST. LOUIS — They were male and female. Young and old. Black and white. Professional church workers and laypeople. Some consider themselves lifelong prayer warriors, or “intercessors.” Others are convinced they don’t pray enough. All came…
Barbara Huggins of Glendale, Mo., has been appointed by the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League as its new archivist-historian. She succeeds Peggi Lawrence of Eureka, Calif., who retired after serving in the post since 1993. Huggins has served for many years…
By Linda C. Hoops Family ministry leaders in the Synod are convinced that intentional family ministry is not another “congregational program” that serves a specific age group. Rather, it is an all-encompassing viewpoint that provides for and encourages the shaping…
Iowa WestJune 21-24 Milford, Iowa Elected: Rev. Paul Sieveking, Fort Dodge, Iowa, president, fourth term, first ballot. Rev. Steven Turner, Algona, Iowa, first vice president. Rev. Steven Schulz, Storm Lake, Iowa, second vice president. Under the theme “Joy in Serving,”…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Delegates to the 33rd Biennial Convention of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, held here June 25-28, adopted a new mission goal of $1.825 million for the 2009-11 biennium. It is the largest in the organization’s 67-year history…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: Over the years of teaching [for several decades at the elementary level in the LCMS system], I have noticed that my own faith life is not what it was at one time. … I just…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: What were you doing in Cleveland, Ohio, May 19? A: I confess that I made up this question, so that I may address in this column what I was doing in Cleveland that day. Because…
By Bill Karpenko This summer, we’re celebrating 50 years of director of Christian education (DCE) ministry throughout The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Although there were DCEs at work in our congregations well before 1959, the Synod convention that year — meeting…
Repeating the LCMS position that the Bible condemns homosexual activity, Synod President Gerald Kieschnick issued a statement Aug. 24 that also offers “loving encouragement” and “our willingness to provide appropriate support” to like-minded pastors and lay people of the Evangelical…
By Paula Schlueter Ross During one of four mission trips to the same region of Kenya, East Africa, over two years, Kevin Pieper heard about a community hard-hit by drought. Pieper, director of global mission and local outreach at Salem…
As it develops “Together With All Creatures,” a document on Christian stewardship of the environment, the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) will hold a second consultation to garner ideas so it can be used by a college…
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