Lay Institute offers free audio files from forum

The Institute on Lay Vocation at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, is offering audio files from its Nov. 3-4 forum, “Called to Engage the Postmodern World: The Lutheran Voice in Contemporary America.” The audio files in MP3 format are available free…

St. Louis sem to host choir workshop

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, has scheduled its 15th Annual “Schola Cantorum: An Adult Choir Member Workshop” for Saturday, Jan. 20. The daylong workshop is open to all choir members, choir directors, and ministers of music. Dr. Timothy Peter, professor of…

Ziegler named `Distinguished Principal`

Robert J. Ziegler, principal of St. Michael Lutheran School, Fort Myers, Fla., has been named a “National Distinguished Principal” for 2006.  He received the award along with 64 other principals at an Oct. 27 ceremony in Washington, D.C. Ziegler is the…

Brazil`s Winterle serving in Kenya

Dr. Carlos Walter Winterle, former president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, is now serving as a missionary in Kenya, East Africa. Winterle was installed Nov. 5 as English-speaking pastor of Uhuru Highway Lutheran Cathedral in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. …

Fort Wayne sem offers CDs on love, marriage

Almost two dozen presentations from the “In the Image of God” love and marriage conference — held this fall on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne — are now available on compact disk. The conference was sponsored by…

Three LCMS schools get `Blue Ribbon` award

Three schools operated by LCMS congregations — one in Minnesota and two in Texas — are among 50 private “No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools” named by the U.S. Department of Education for this year.  They are Trinity Lone Oak Lutheran…

LCMS congregations get Health, Hope Grants

Seven Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod churches are among 29 Lutheran congregations that received a total of $48,318 in the latest round of Wheat Ridge Ministries’ Congregation Health and Hope Grants. Open to all Lutheran congregations — individually or in partnerships — the grants…

Study: 23 percent of church workers `uncomfortable` with debt

By Roland Lovstad While three out of four LCMS-rostered workers are comfortable with their current levels of debt, about one-third of them say debt has negatively affected their personal lives or ministries sometime during their careers. Rising health insurance costs was…

St. Louis sem announces art exhibit, free reception

“Reflections on Water,” an art exhibit by Karl Fay, will open Dec. 1 at the library art gallery of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and will be on display through Feb. 16. An opening reception with wine and refreshments will be…

LFL offers DVD, resources on stem-cell research

Lutherans For Life (LFL) has produced a DVD that’s designed to help people understand the basics of stem-cell research and cloning, and how God’s Word can be applied to those technologies. Hosted by LFL Executive Director Dr. James I. Lamb,…

LFL prepares for march, offers free lodging

If you don’t live in the Washington, D.C., area but you’d like to take part in the 34th national “March for Life” on Monday, Jan. 22, all you have to do is get there — members of the Lutherans For…

Gathering registration remains open beyond Nov. 8 cutoff

Although a two-week “priority window” ended Nov. 8 for registrations for next year’s LCMS National Youth Gathering, registrations will continue to be accepted beyond that date. “We want to assure those who still want to register for the Youth Gathering and…

CPH produces first volume of Gerhard work

The first volume in the English translation of Johann Gerhard’s Loci Theologici, or Theological Commonplaces, is now available from Concordia Publishing House. Translated by Dr. Richard J. Dinda, professor emeritus of Concordia University in Austin, Texas, On the Nature of…

LHM offers free Advent devotions

“Love Was Born at Christmas” is the title of devotions available from Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) for the 2006 Advent season. This year, the devotions are no longer available as printed booklets.  Instead, congregations are asked to download them from…

Kintz installed as eighth CPH president/CEO

Bruce G. Kintz was installed as the eighth president and chief executive officer of Concordia Publishing House at an Oct. 31 Reformation Day service at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis. The installation was conducted by Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod…

Fort Wayne seminary announces symposia

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, will present its annual symposia on exegetical and confessional theology Jan. 16-19. The four-day symposia includes: the 22nd Annual Symposium on Exegetical Theology, Jan. 16-17, which will discuss “Christian Identity in a Pagan World: Lessons…