Missouri District Supports New Teachers with Annual Retreat and Fellowship
The New Teacher Retreat has quickly become an annual event for the Missouri District. Alan Freeman, Assistant to the President for Schools, says, “The research tells us that teachers are more likely to leave the field in their first five years of teaching. That’s a shame because it takes a...
Junior and Senior High District Youth Gatherings Help Teens with Faith Formation and Christian Friendships
There’s an energy that comes when young people come together for worship and the Word of God. At the recent National Youth Gathering in Minneapolis, MN, thousands of high schoolers came together from all over the world. According to the LCMS website, “More than 20,000 youth and adults from all...
Christ Lutheran Church in Platte Woods Partners with Oromo Congregation of Ethiopian Immigrants
Three or four years ago, Rev. Brandon Froiland of Christ Lutheran Church in Platte City received a request to share their church building with a group of recent immigrants from Ethiopia. These individuals, members of the Oromo tribe, came to the United States as refugees, fleeing persecution. They were specifically...
Missouri District Leads Volunteers at LEA Convocation
For the first time in more than 30 years, the Lutheran Education Association (LEA) has selected the city of St. Louis to host its 2019 Convocation. With the theme, Opening Eyes, Minds, & Hearts, this convocation brought together 2700 number of Lutheran educators from all over the country, as well...
God’s Word Is Worth the Risks
The early church father Jerome was commissioned in 382 to complete a definitive translation of the Old and New Testament into Latin, the language of the world at that time. Jerome declared that “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” But with Latin literacy in decline as Rome’s influence...
The Pure Gospel – Christ for You
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. —Ephesians 2:4-5 A Navy Chaplain recently described the challenges and the joys of the spiritual...
Jesus, My Beauty and My Glorious Dress
“Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered.”—Psalm 32:1 Adam and Eve heard the sound of God walking in the Garden in the cool of the day. There had been no separation between God and His perfect creation before the fall. God and those whom He had created dwelt...
Rev. Dr. Norman E. Nagel Obituary
On Oct. 8, 2019, professor emeritus at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis Rev. Dr. Norman E. Nagel was called home to glory. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia University/University of Adelaide, his Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1953, and his PhD from King’s College...