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Date Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:03:17 -0600

1.2.2008 LCMS Notes

THE LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod

LCMS products, services make news headlines

Both a brand new program and a long-standing product of the LCMS recently garnered national news coverage.

Operation Barnabas

Operation Barnabas, a new program administered by LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces introduced this fall, will serve LCMS military chaplains and all LCMS Reserve and National Guard veterans before and after they are deployed to active duty. Among others, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the daily newspaper serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, covered the program in detail. Read the story at http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/religion/story/BAAF7CC 37CE9C49B862573C00018E7D6?OpenDocument

Arch Books

Arch Books, a series of more than 100 children's Bible story books published by Concordia Publishing House that debuted in 1959, explain Bible stories in language that children understand. An in-depth article in USA Today, the nation's largest newspaper, about children's books featured the Arch Books series and quoted CPH's publisher. Read the story at http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-12-10-kids-bible-stories_N.ht m.

For more information

For more information about Operation Barnabas, call LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces at 800 433-3954, Ext. 1337, or visit www.lcmsworldmission.org/armedforces <http://www.lcmsworldmission.org/armedforces> . For more information about the Arch Books series, call Concordia Publishing House at 800 325-3040 or visit www.cph.org <http://www.cph.org> .

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