Celebrate, study and discover the ministry and the legacy of the Rev. Dr. C.F.W. Walther, the first president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), during the Walther Bicentennial. Many LCMS entities and congregations will recognize the bicentennial of Walther’s birth with special events, activities and resources starting in 2011 and extending through the 125th anniversary [...]
In the following letter sent by email to several Lutheran leaders, Rev. Dr. Gemechis D. Buba issues a plea for prayer for Christians suffering persecution from Muslims in Ethiopia. Please support their witness by joining them in prayer and spreading the word about these violent Islamists. Dearly beloved, Grace and peace to you, … In [...]
No wonder they say their church was stolen from them – by the leaders of the faith they practiced, the same leaders who changed the locks to keep them out of that church. Their forefathers built their North Branch church in 1934 with two by fours cut from trees they felled here in western Sullivan [...]
Date & Time: Saturday, February 19 · 9:00am – 4:00pm Location Mt Olive Lutheran Church, 3411 S. Taft Ave., Loveland, Colorado Session topics will be as follows: • Vocation in a culture of death: testing Postmodern assumptions • Lutheran Ethics in a culture of death It should be a very interesting and insightful day. Please [...]
The LCMS and ELCA are not in altar and pulpit fellowship with each other because of doctrinal disagreements. Lately, those differences have centered on the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly’s adoption of a social statement on human sexuality and changes to ministry policies that include making it possible for those in lifelong, publicly accountable, monogamous same-gender [...]
“Lutherans Needed to Serve in China” chinaconnect Service Opportunities in 2011 Jesus’ words from Mark 10:45 call us to something greater than ourselves. Our Christian service springs to life because Christ is the model of servanthood. The life that Jesus gave “as a ransom for many” is why we as Christians have any sense of [...]
Register for the 2010 Beautiful Feet Mission Conference This year’s annual Beautiful Feet Mission Conference will be held Nov. 11-13, on the campus of Concordia University Texas, Austin, Texas. The event, under the theme ‘Love in Action,’ includes keynote speakers, worship, exhibitors, breakout sessions, and fellowship with other mission-minded students. During this student-led conference, mission-minded [...]
A new Lutheran denominational body was born on Friday, Aug. 27, as Lutherans from throughout North America voted overwhelmingly and enthusiastically to form the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). The decision to form the new church body was made at the annual Convocation of Lutheran CORE which attracted more than 1,100 Lutherans Thursday and Friday [...]
Finally, a less spun news report on churches leaving the ELCA. Lutheran churches in Philip, Midland and Long Valley voted Sunday by large margins to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for the newly created North American Lutheran Church. First Lutheran Church in Philip, Trinity Lutheran in Midland and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in [...]
