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With Dr. Bruce Hartung While the two questions for this month’s column may not at first seem related, I have included them because they both illustrate that congregations have specific work to do after “losing” their pastors. Q: Our former…
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Communications announces an opening for the position of managing editor: Witness, Mercy, Life Together. The position is accountable to the director of News and Information and will be responsible for gathering, editing and supervising the production of…
Prolific author and frequent speaker Dr. Paul Maier talked about his new book, The Constantine Codex, in a June 22 interview on KFUO Radio, the LCMS-owned station in St. Louis. Maier, who retired this year as professor of Ancient History…
By Kim Plummer Krull Every morning when Kimberly Johnson arrives at work, the Immanuel Lutheran Church secretary says her telephone message box is full. “We get calls from all over the country from people wanting to help, wanting to volunteer,…
By Roland Lovstad With a Witness, Mercy, Life Together emphasis, the coordinative services that the Synod will provide to districts and congregations and its mission work around the world will be carried out by two offices — National Mission and International…
by Kim Plummer Krull Historic flooding in Minot, N.D., has forced evacuations for scores of LCMS families from their homes and some 70 residents from the Minot campus of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch — a Synod Recognized Service Organization. …
By Paula Schlueter Ross Taeryun Lee, a native of Seoul, South Korea, believes God has a plan for her. Lee was not Christian when she arrived in the United States in 2005 to study at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. …
(RNS) — United Methodists (UMC) will begin a trial June 21 against a Wisconsin minister who’s accused of breaking church rules by celebrating a same-sex marriage and being in a lesbian relationship. The Rev. Amy DeLong, 44, of Osceola, Wis.,…
By Sarah Schafer Participants indicated that a series of mercy conferences in Latvia, May 17-23, opened doors to new ministry opportunities between The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and its partner church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (ELCL). More than 100…
By Adriane Dorr Heavy rain in the Midwest and above-average snowmelt out West have caused flooding in Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and now also Missouri. As rivers continue to rise, Lutheran families and LCMS churches in the…
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) — Even before the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) elected the Rev. Fred Luter to national office, there was already widespread speculation that Luter is poised to become the denomination’s first African-American president. Representatives of 16 million Southern…
Four days before the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Gerrit Cole as the first pick in the Major League Baseball (MLB) draft, Orange Lutheran High School’s former star pitcher was watching his sister graduate and catching up with his former principal in…
Rev. David A. Muench of St. Louis has accepted a call to be director of Ministerial Care for Concordia Plan Services (CPS), a new position he has filled since May 15. An LCMS clergyman and licensed marriage and family therapist,…
LONDON (RNS) — The Church of England has issued a set of “legal guidelines” that pave the way for openly gay clergy to become bishops — so long as they are and promise to remain celibate. Details of the internal…
By Joe Isenhower Jr. ST. LOUIS — The LCMS Board for National Mission (BNM) and Board for International Mission (BIM), meeting here June 3-4, individually approved their self-governing policies and reviewed with Synod President Dr. Matthew C. Harrison his work on…
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