It’s been a year since Synod President Gerald B. Kieschnick wrote about “one of the greatest stories coming out of New Orleans” after floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina ravaged that city. The story that Kieschnick referred to in an October 2005…

JAMES M. HENSLIN, Niceville, Fla., and LARRY E. MILLER, St. Paul, Minn., have applied for reinstatement to the Minister of Religion-Ordained roster of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.  KRISTI GOLKE, Gowen, Mich.; LINDA KENNELL, Brown Deer, Wis.; MARGARET S. WENGER, Hicksville,…

Concordia University Irvine, Irvine, Calif., seeks applicants for the following two positions: Associate dean of School of Arts and Sciences.  To be considered, an applicant must be a member of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, hold views congruent with the mission…

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The lawsuit filed by more than 80 plaintiffs against President Gerald B. Kieschnick, First Vice President William R. Diekelman, and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (as a necessary nominal defendant) in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Mo., in August…

Funding the Mission It was with much thanksgiving to God that I read the report of the blue-ribbon task force on the funding for our beloved church body. I have concerns about the funding directions of the various schools and…

Thoughts of both gratitude and concern were expressed by the executive director of the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations following a vote on the ordination of women at last month’s convention of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA). …

“Stewardship Renaissance” — a term used by the Blue Ribbon Task Force for Funding the Mission — is starting well before the task force’s report reaches the 2007 LCMS Convention. Among the developments is that the LCMS Board for District…

Pastors (both active and retired) and laypeople who want to help congregations talk more about ministry and less about money are invited to become a certified Consecrated Stewards “guest leader.” LCEF’s Capital Funding Services hosts training sessions on how to…

By Kim Krull When Barbara Mulvey was asked to lead the team for a new stewardship education emphasis at her congregation, this member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rome, N.Y., wanted to duck and run.  “I didn’t want to…

Rev. John P. Reinke of Janesville, Wis., began serving this fall as director of the Deaf Institute of Theology (DIT) at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.  He succeeds Rev. Roger Altenberger, who is LCMS World Mission’s facilitator for “Ablaze! Connection.” Reinke,…

Concordia Plan Services (CPS) says it will introduce several new health and wellness programs as part of the Concordia Health Plan (CHP), starting March 1. Free to all CHP members, those programs will consist of Health Risk Assessment (HRA), Health Advisors…

LCMS World Relief/Human Care gave initial emergency disaster-relief grants totaling $17,000 to three congregations whose members were affected by an F-4 tornado Sept. 22 that almost leveled the small down of Crosstown in Perry County, Mo., about 80 miles southeast…

International Lutheran Single Adults (ILSA) will hold its 20th anniversary annual conference July 5-8 at the Radisson Inn in Branson, Mo.  The conference, with the theme of “Rejoice and Sing,” is open to any single adult or to anyone who…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. Stepped-up outreach efforts, new hymnals, and task forces on funding -– programs and priorities of the two largest U.S. Lutheran church bodies -– were similar topics that leaders of those churches discussed when they met Oct. 3…