The Missouri District has 114 educational ministries, which serve communities in cities, the countryside and everywhere in between. Schools serving rural and small town communities, often have a unique experience, but one that brings significant benefits to students and their families. Here’s how our educational ministries are serving two areas:...

Campus Ministry can be a lonely mission field, even though the job often means working with young adults during one of the most exciting times of their lives. This work also comes with some unique challenges and a much smaller population of church workers than other types of ministry.For starters,...

Chris and Kathy Thies are youth volunteers at Ascension Lutheran Church in St. Louis. With friends who live in the Jefferson City area and experience on the ground cleaning up after tornadoes, they saw an opportunity to give the teenagers a service project. After the recent tornado, they contacted Trinity...

“O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.” —Psalm 71:17-18A few weeks ago, I sat with...