This is the time to order or renew subscriptions of the Lutheran Witness (LW), the official periodical of the LCMS. It is published 11 times a year, and provides laypeople with stories and information that complement congregational life, fosters personal growth in faith, and helps interpret the contemporary world from the Lutheran Christian perspective. The subscription year is March 2021 through February 2022.

Wellspring Lutheran Services will launch Michigan’s first public recovery high school in January 2021. Wellspring Academy will support teens who have struggled with drugs and alcohol to maintain sobriety as they complete high school and earn their diploma.

No more honorable vocation exists than church work: equipping the saints for the work of ministry and bringing others into God’s family through the preaching and teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This work of ministry is what Concordia University Ann Arbor will train you to do in our church work programs.

“How are you today?” How often is that the greeting you hear from people you encounter every day? Is it just a greeting, like hello, or does the person really want your honest response? How will you express your feelings? What will you say?

Are you looking for the perfect appetizer to prepare you for a day stuffed with family and football, turkey and pumpkin pie? STL is inviting you to join us in any of three Thanksgiving Eve worship settings. Whether you join us in person at noon or at 7:00 p.m., or online at 7:00 p.m. or afterwards, your experience will be the same as we give praise and thanks to our generous and merciful God.

Recently, Lutherans for Life of Michigan president Rev. Paul Clark wrote a brief article for this blog here notifying readers that the petition to ban the mid-to-late term abortive procedure of Dilation and Evacuation has failed.