The 2018 hurricane season continues to produce strong storms with potentially devastating impacts to the United States. Currently, the Lutheran Disaster Response staff, network, and other partners are monitoring the paths of Hurricanes Florence, Helene, Olivia and Tropical Storm Isaac.
A conference on stewardship in today’s church context for pastors, lay leaders, judicatory staff, and anyone who is looking to learn more.
Addiction in every form is ravaging our world. How will we, as people of faith, address the current opioid crisis?
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center (LOMC) is this year's recipient of the Central Southern Illinois Synod 2018 Pedal for a Purpose fundraiser.
Join us for a night of singing all our favorite hymns, with drinks available from Riggs, and food available from Thai-Lao Cuisine food truck.
A Conference for Small Membership Congregations
Sponsored by the Congregational Vitality Team, ELCA Domestic Mission
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) will honor ABC Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee at its 37th Annual Amicus Certus Celebration on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Union League Club of Chicago.
Men of all ages yearn for real friendships and a closer relationship with Christ. Join us and be adventurous, courageous, genuine, and spiritual.
An opportunity for continuing education for rostered ministers, those engaged in Synodically Authorized Ministry, individuals interested in the Synodically Authorized Ministry program, and other lay members of the congregations.
“My God why have you abandoned me?” prayed Jesus, along with the ancient psalmist and countless others over the millennia whom darkness has enveloped and whose prayers have been met with deep and lasting silence.
Dr. Mark Ruff, Professor of History at St. Louis University, will teach the course, THE COLD WAR AND A DIVIDED CHURCH: The Church’s Conflict Between Communist East and Capitalist West.
The Herman Trede and Esther Trede Memorial Scholarship for the school year 2018-2019 is available this year to any student that is a member of a congregation in the Central/Southern Illinois Synod who is attending a Lutheran College, University, or Theological Seminary.
First off, thank you all for your generous support to our Pedal for a Purpose efforts over the last five years. Together, we have biked thousands of miles, brought congregations together, strengthened community, celebrated our shared ministry, and raised over $150,000 for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, Illinois campus ministries, our companion synods in Madagascar, and assisting pastors new to our synod with their seminary debt. Thank you5 thanks be to God5 and let’s great ready for another year!
Pastor Micah and Andrea Garnett (Trinity, Canton) welcome your prayers as Andrea is hospitalized for severe shingles. They would like you to know as well that their pregnancy is doing fine.
Pastor Gerald and Ruth Kissell (retired, Carbondale, IL) welcome your prayers. Pastor Jerry will undergo triple cardiac bypass surgery and aortic valve replacement Monday morning, September 10.
We joyfully lift in prayer Salem Lutheran Church, Peoria, and Pastor Craig Swenson, as Pastor Swenson is installed as senior pastor this Sunday morning, September 9, at worship beginning 10:45 a.m.
Pastor Rick Hertenstein (Pastoral Appointment, Faith, Augusta, and Immanuel, Basco) welcomes your prayers for his wife, Debbie, in her hospitalization at this time.
We as a synod and as a church body lift up in prayer Candidate Thomas Kratzer, who will be ordained this Saturday, August 4th, 11:00 a.m., at Zion Lutheran Church, Canton, Ohio.
Michael Foppe (engaged in Synodically Authorized Ministry) and his family welcome your prayers. Yesterday, Michael and another volunteer were viciously assaulted as they were serving at the Interfaith Food Pantry in Belleville, IL, by a man who entered the building.
Pastor Rick (Pastoral Appointment, Faith, Augusta, and Immanuel, Basco) and Debbie Hertenstein welcome your prayers at the unexpected death of Debbies's sister, Karen Wadley, on June 27, 2018, in Paducah, KY.
Over 400 Central/Southern Illinois Synod youth, chaperones, and volunteers are traveling to and from – and participating in – the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston (June 27 - July 1).
We as a synod and as a church body lift up in prayer Candidate Christine Salser, who will be ordained in a 5:00 p.m. worship service Friday, June 22, at Zion Lutheran Church, Rockford, IL.
As we approach our 2018 Central/Southern Illinois Synod Assembly (theme: I Am With You Always...), I welcome your prayers. The Assembly begins at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at the I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL. Our Bible study leader is the Dr. Martin J. Lohrmann, Assistant Professor of Lutheran Confessions and Heritage at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA.
John 13:1 - “Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” This verse is part of the lectionary reading for Maundy Thursday. You may be reading these thoughts of mine after having heard this verse read in church.
There has been much conversation in conventional media and social media about what churches should do to best prepare and protect themselves against a violent intruder. I googled “church active shooter” and got 2,940,000 hits. There is no lack of options, suggestions, analyses, and arguments available with the click of a mouse.
Bishop John Roth of the Central/Southern Illinois Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Bishop Gregory Palmer of the Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church wanted to explore opening up to their respective churches a personal conversation they were having in the aftermath of the death of Trayvon Martin, an African-American young person killed by a private citizen. In addition, the bishops opted to supplement their conversation by responding to questions likely to be on the minds of Christians in central and southern Illinois.
The Annual City Wide Hymn Fest 2018 will again take place on the fourth Sunday in September, accompanied by the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon.