Rev. Paul Klopke is hard at work in the Northern Illinois District, raising disability awareness among Northern Illinois District congregations.
On Mission to Increase Sensitivity



Rev. Paul Klopke is hard at work in the Northern Illinois District, raising disability awareness among Northern Illinois District congregations.

A blacklight dodgeball tournament on January 29 was held in a warehouse owned by St. Paul Lutheran Church of Aurora, Illinois. Invitations went out. But the main target was not on the youth of St. Paul.

Concordia University Chicago will host a panel of experts to discuss the Reformation’s impact and ongoing legacy, on campus in River Forest, Illinois, Monday, March 20, at 7 p.m.

St. Paul Lutheran School in Mount Prospect, Illinios, has been recognized as a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Preschoolers celebrate planting blue pinwheels in the school yard.

Rev. Michael Piper, age 54, died in Missouri. He was pastor at St. John Lutheran Church in Beecher, Illinois, from 1988 to 1996.

Services for Rev. Donald Matthiessen, pastor at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Sterling, Illinois, will be on February 15-16 in Rock Falls, Illinois.

Several hundred Lutherans from the LCMS Life 360 Conference being held in Alexandria, Virginia, joined others from across the nation at the March for Life on January 27 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Nick Price was ordained and installed as associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, in Lisle, Illinois, to serve as site pastor at their Kimberly Way site.

The January 27 March for Life in D.C. was not the only, or even the first, March for Life in the country this year. On Sunday, January 15, thousands gathered at Federal Plaza in Chicago.

The Lutheran Heritage Foundation now has a new, free resource that can help you introduce your Christian beliefs to a Japanese friend.