Board for World Missions
414-256-3233; bwm@sab.wels.net
Two new booklets—God Creates our World and Broken Hearted Father—have been published in the Bible Teachings Series, thanks to a grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. The series now contains 17 volumes. The booklets were developed by WELS Prison Ministry and adapted for world mission and cross-cultural outreach by Multi-Language Publications. “It’s an exciting program that in the prison ministry form is reaching out to 46,000 prisoners and in the Bible Teachings Series form is reaching out (in translation) to more than 20,000 correspondents in Nepal, Pakistan, and Latin America,” says Paul Hartman, coordinator of Multi-Language Publications.

Board for Ministerial Education
414-256-3236; bme@sab.wels.net
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, has developed a new alumni group, WLS Alumni. The executive committee includes Pastor Daniel Balge (‘85), president; Pastor Earle Treptow (‘93), vice president; Pastor Carl Ziemer (‘73), secretary; and Pastor Aaron Christie (‘97), treasurer.

One hundred forty men attended the first annual meeting in September. At the meeting, the group adopted a constitution and approved, in principal, a proposal to offer monetary support for student aid and continuing education for seminary professors and graduates. The group also directed its officers to explore writing a book celebrating the seminary’s history, to be published in conjunction with the seminary’s sesquicentennial in 2013.

Technology Office
414-256-3250; martin.spriggs@sab.wels.net
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