New This Week

Volunteer in 2023: Register for a summer Servant Event

LCMS congregations, summer camps and Recognized Service Organizations across the country will host Servant Events from May through August.

National Lutheran Schools Week 2023: ‘Making Disciples for Life’

LCMS School Ministry has developed a variety of resources for use during NLSW.

Pilot program to test SAS resources

Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is a Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod effort launched in 2019 to raise up future church workers.

‘Another year of grace’: A message from the Synod president

With the name of Jesus and at the celebration of His first shedding of blood, we begin our new year.

Respect for Marriage Act: Misnamed law threatens religious liberty

On Dec. 13, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.

‘Behold the Man’: December LW

The December issue of The Lutheran Witness explores how Lutheran anthropology informs and directs our lives here and in the life to come.

From the mission field: Living voices of the Gospel in Papua New Guinea

Updates about LCMS mission work around the world.

Campus clips: LCMS schools wrap up busy year

The December edition of ‘Campus Clips.’

St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf: Teaching the ‘whole person’

St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf accepts students from preschool through eighth grade and operates in space provided by Emmanuel Lutheran Church and School in Dearborn, Mich.

‘A way to serve’: Organist honored for 70 years at same congregation

Eileen Jones began serving at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Britton, Mich., when she was 16 years old.

Right administration of the sacraments

The true “marks” of the church are evident to all and provide sufficient grounds to identify the presence of true fellowship.

‘Profound unity and purpose’ in Kenya

In September, representatives from the LCMS gathered in Kisumu, Kenya, with representatives from 34 of the Synod’s partner churches to discuss the work of the confessional Lutheran church around the world.

Youth Ministry shares findings of Gathering participant poll

Youth Gathering participants have taken the poll at every Gathering since the first one in 1980.

Bernhard M. Seter scholarship to support church work students in Africa

Recipients of the scholarship must be studying to become Lutheran pastors, deaconesses or Christian evangelists serving in Africa LCMS partner churches.

Consider a year-end ‘Together as Synod’ gift

An undesignated gift to the LCMS enhances domestic and international efforts to witness, show mercy to others and live life together as children of God.

Oldest historically black LCMS church in Mississippi destroyed by arson

The church traces its beginning to the 1930s.