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| Excerpt from "LCMS e-News" <[email protected]>
Date Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:50:27 -0500 6.9.2007 LCMS News THE LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod June 9, 2007 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 36 Board adopts $100 million Synod budget By Joe Isenhower Jr. ..... Yet another "concept" receiving the Board's endorsement -- subject to resolution of legal and organizational issues -- is the "Wittenberg Project," a cooperative effort of LCMS World Mission, LCMS World Relief/Human Care, and Concordia Publishing House to convert a former boys school adjacent to "Luther's church" (St. Mary's) in Wittenberg, Germany, into a ministry center. The building, which needs extensive renovation, would house a bookstore, guest quarters, a welcome center for visitors, a diakonal office, and a chapel. Dr. Robert Roegner and Rev. Matthew Harrison, executive directors of LCMS World Mission and LCMS World Relief/Human Care, respectively, made a presentation about the project to the Board, explaining that the ministry center could spark a mission start for the SELK (Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church) -- the Synod's partner church in Germany. They explained that fewer than one-fifth of Wittenberg's population claims to be Christian and that no Synod partner-church congregation exists there, although one did in the past. Wittenberg, where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Castle Church door on Oct. 31, 1517, is located in what was formerly Communist East Germany. |