The June 11 edition of the Herald Tribune in Sarasota, Fla., highlighted the growth of Ascension Lutheran School In the article, Principal Kurt Rosenbaum, who recently took a call to Arizona Lutheran Academy, talked about the strict academic standards held by the school. He said, “Our mission is providing an education of excellence in a safe, Christian environment.”

The July 11 Watertown Public Opinion featured a story on a Bible day camp for people with developmental disabilities in the Watertown, S.D., area. Volunteers from St. Martin’s and Bethlehem Lutheran Churches in Watertown, S.D., along with six college students participating in a Summer Ministry Experience through the Lutheran Home Association in Belle Plaine, Minn., hosted the camp. This camp is just one of the ways the college students shared the gospel with people with developmental disabilities this summer. One student remarked, “Words can’t do justice to the experiences and lessons we have learned from working with them.”