What’s New With YOU? Updates from congregations around the church of the Lutheran Confession Peace on the Prairie “Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 Just two miles south of Mission, South Dakota, and one hundred yards east… Read More »Peace Lutheran Church Mission, South Dakota Read More

A SLICE OF LIFE IN THE CLC Snapshots of congregations from around the Church of the Lutheran Confession Scenic Valentine, Nebraska is nestled between two valleys—one on the north created by the Minnechaduza Creek and the other on the south created by the Niobrara River. It serves as the northeast gateway into the Nebraska Sandhills—a… Read More »Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Valentine, Nebraska Read More

Emirates Airlines Flight 236 departed Chicago at 8:45 P.M. on July 9th for a fourteen-hour flight to Dubai. So began the 2018 Mission Helper Trip to East Africa. Preparations for the trip, however, began months before. Purchasing airline tickets, visiting medical facilities for necessary shots, and preparing lessons to present the Seven C’s—creation, corruption, catastrophe,… Read More »2018 Mission Helper Trip—East Africa Read More

Forty-seven members and visitors gathered to dedicate a new church building for Peace Lutheran Church on Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. The church is located just east of Highway 83, two miles south of Mission, next to Peace Lutheran Cemetery. The congregation’s pastor, Paul D. Nolting, delivered the dedicatory address with the theme:… Read More »Dedication of New Church for Peace Lutheran Church, Mission, South Dakota Read More

The Youth Conference 2015 was held at Camp Como, just outside Como, Colorado, from July 28 through August 2. It was sponsored by Immanuel Lutheran Church of Mankato, Minnesota. Twenty-eight young people (ages fourteen to twenty and representing eleven different CLC congregations) together with twelve staff members (from five different CLC congregations) immersed themselves in… Read More »The Youth Conference 2015 Read More

The “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” fails to resolve issues between Roman Catholics and Lutherans in a clear and scriptural manner. On October 31, 1999 representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation met in Germany and signed a “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” (JDDJ). The signing was… Read More »ARE WE UNITED?? Read More

3. LUTHER AS TEACHER “From childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” — 2 Timothy 3:15. Martin Luther was many things during his lifetime. He was a German peasant, a university student, an Augustinian monk, and a parish pastor.… Read More »Reformation Vignettes Read More

5. LUTHER AS HUSBAND AND FATHER “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her . . . . Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” — Ephesians 5:25, 6:4. Martin Luther proposed to and… Read More »Reformation Vignettes Read More

What’s new at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of White River, South Dakota? Probably not much—or so one might be tempted to think! After all, St. Paul’s is an old congregation. Its first services were held by German immigrant families 104 years ago when Mellette County was first opened to homesteaders; its first resident pastor arrived… Read More »St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church—White River, South Dakota Read More