Around the District

It takes a convention. When a district’s circuit structure no longer complies with Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod requirements, the circuit lines need to be redrawn.

In the family visitation room at Stateville Prison (Crest Hill, Illinois) now one often sees fathers reading books to their children, thanks to an assistant warden’s request and the quick response of Deaconess Lori Wilbert,

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.

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.

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.

A workshop titled “Family Ministry 101” will be held 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, February 25, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Barrington, Illinois.

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lombard, Illinois, continues Sunday, February 12, at 3 p.m. with “An Evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln.”

St. Paul Lutheran Church, 330 Highland Drive, Chicago Heights, IL, is an area host church for Night to Shine on Friday, February 10, 6-9 p.m.