Hope and comfort will embrace those who attend the Infants Memorial Service on Sunday afternoon, May 21, at Cross Lutheran Church in Yorkville, Illinois.
Infants Memorial Service for All to Remember



Hope and comfort will embrace those who attend the Infants Memorial Service on Sunday afternoon, May 21, at Cross Lutheran Church in Yorkville, Illinois.

LCMS Worship will hold its Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music the week of July 25–28 at Concordia University Chicago.

It was just a normal January day at an LCMS Northern Illinois District church and school in a quiet suburb—until it wasn’t.

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, issued calls to 119 students for assignment as pastors, deaconesses, and vicars or interns in their spring call service on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Two men were assigned to the Northern Illinois District.

One vicar and one pastor received assignments April 24 and 25 at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to serve within the Northern Illinois District.

Open doors in the former school facility of St. John Lutheran Church, in Forest Park, Illinois, saw hundreds of moms, babies and grandmas swarm in on March 14-15.

Faith Lutheran Church in Geneva, Illinois, will be hosting a concert of the African Children’s Choir on Sunday, May 7, at 7 p.m.

Sixth grade students at Immanuel Lutheran School, Batavia, Illinois, have helped more than 200 people in South Sudan gain access to clean water.

St. Paul Lutheran Church, 6201 Vollmer Road, Matteson, Illinois, will host a Stephen Ministry Introductory Workshop on Saturday morning, May 6.

Rev. Keith Haney, from the LCMS Northern Illinois District staff, has published a six-session Bible study on healing racial divides, available online now from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis.