LCMS pastor, professor, and speaker Dr. John Arthur Nunes will become the fourth president of Lutheran World Relief, Baltimore, on July 1.  LWR is a ministry of the LCMS, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, individuals, and parish groups in…

Dr. Gerald Krispin has accepted a call to become the seventh president of Concordia University College of Alberta, Edmonton, beginning July 1. Krispin, 51, succeeds President Richard Kraemer, who is retiring at the end of June after 17 years in…

LCMS World Relief/Human Care is offering $100 scholarships to any LCMS rostered church worker who registers to attend “Christian Law Enforcement Chaplaincy — Theology and Practice,” a July 9-13 workshop co-sponsored by Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Peace Officer Ministries. …

Lutherans For Life (LFL) has produced a new bulletin insert especially for Father’s Day, June 17. “Faithful Fathers” highlights the life of Joseph, the importance of fathers in family life, and the faithfulness of our Heavenly Father in helping dads…

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, is offering a theological resource about the self-help book The Secret. The resource — an audio-video “podcast” — features Dr. David Lewis, assistant professor of exegetical theology, and is available for free download on the seminary’s…

William G. “Bill” Wagner, a retired newspaper editor who served the church in communications and leadership roles, died May 7 in San Antonio, Texas, after a long illness.  He was 85. The funeral was May 11 at Concordia Lutheran Church, San…

Thirteen member families of Peace Lutheran Church, Greensburg, Kan., “lost everything — their homes, furniture, clothing, all their possessions” to the May 4 tornado that all but flattened the town of 1,500 and killed 10 residents, according to the congregation’s…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. Synod leaders spoke of Easter assurance and reminded adults to look after their young people when they issued statements and prayers after a gunman took 33 lives April 16 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute…

By Kim Krull Agricultural missionaries Delano and Linda Meyer teach West Africans techniques to grow more food and also help them grow in their relationship with the Lord. That’s just one example of 15 projects LCMS World Relief/Human Care is…

Six people were appointed to a drafting committee as the Commission on Theology and Church Relations set a schedule for completing its report on “The Scriptural Relationship of Man and Woman.”  The appointments followed the commission’s second consultation on the…

Camp Restore — the LCMS camp that opened in New Orleans last fall to house volunteers helping rebuild the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast — is reportedly desperate for building supervisors and project managers, in particular, and just more volunteer workers in…

If forecasters’ prediction of a “very active” hurricane season proves accurate, the new LCMS Amateur Radio Support Network (ARSN) will be ready to lend a hand. The new communications network plans to launch by June 1, the official start of…

Stress syndrome I want to thank Reporter and Dr. Bruce Hartung for his April “Pressure Points,” which addressed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). My husband is a Vietnam War veteran and retired LCMS pastor who has PTSD.  He retired from…

The 2007 Convention Workbook will be mailed to this year’s Synod convention delegates and alternates, Synod board and commission members, and all rostered church workers by the first week of May. The Convention Workbook mailing also will include a second…

Key to abbreviations C = Chairman DP = District President VOM = Voting Ordained MinisterVL = Voting Layperson AOM = Advisory Ordained Minister ACM = Advisory Commissioned MinisterAL = Advisory Layperson DISTRICT ABBREVIATIONS: AT = Atlantic CI = Central Illinois…