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  • 2023 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
    2023 March for Life in Washington,...
    14 images
  • Shining a Light in the Darkness
    Shining a Light in the Darkness
    23 images
  • 2022 Photographer's favorite photographs of the year
    2022 Photographer's favorite...
    20 images
  • 2022 LCMS Church Relations conference in Kenya
    2022 LCMS Church Relations...
    23 images
  • LCMS Responds to Hurricane Ian
    LCMS Responds to Hurricane Ian
    35 images
  • 2022 Lutherans in Black Ministry Convocation & VII Hispanic National Convention
    2022 Lutherans in Black Ministry...
    24 images
  • 2022 Youth Gathering in Houston
    2022 Youth Gathering in Houston
    42 images
  • A Service of Graduation in the Dominican Republic
    A Service of Graduation in the...
    17 images
  • Call Day 2022
    Call Day 2022
    20 images
  • LCMS 175th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving
    LCMS 175th Anniversary Service of...
    11 images
  • 2022 YouthLead training in St. Louis
    2022 YouthLead training in St. Louis
    16 images
  • Lententide
    Lententide
    13 images
  • 2022 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
    2022 March for Life in Washington,...
    13 images
  • 2022 Chicago March for Life
    2022 Chicago March for Life
    12 images
  • 2021 Photographer's favorite photos of the year
    2021 Photographer's favorite photos...
    17 images
  • Riga Luther Academy Intensive in Wittenberg, Germany
    Riga Luther Academy Intensive in...
    16 images
  • Spend a day at Trinity Lutheran School in Freistadt, Wisconsin
    Spend a day at Trinity Lutheran...
    13 images
  • Look Back: Christ's Care for Children in Kenya
    Look Back: Christ's Care for...
    18 images
  • 2021 Opening service and inauguration for President Rev. Dr. Thomas Egger
    2021 Opening service and...
    21 images
  • 2021 National Lutheran Youth Workers in Houston
    2021 National Lutheran Youth...
    21 images
  • 2021 LWML Convention in photographs
    2021 LWML Convention in photographs
    23 images
  • The final commencement of Concordia College New York
    The final commencement of Concordia...
    21 images
  • Call Day 2021
    Call Day 2021
    31 images
  • The blessing and sending of an LCMS chaplain
    The blessing and sending of an LCMS...
    11 images
  • 2021 March on the Arch Prayer Walk in St. Louis
    2021 March on the Arch Prayer Walk...
    14 images
  • March for Life Drive-in Rally in Fort Wayne
    March for Life Drive-in Rally in...
    11 images
  • "Look Back" Theological education and music in Sri Lanka
    "Look Back" Theological education...
    25 images
  • "Look Back" Life-giving water in Malawi
    "Look Back" Life-giving water in...
    16 images
  • Lutherans respond to recent hurricanes
    Lutherans respond to recent hurricanes
    18 images
  • Grace Lutheran Chapel School in St. Louis
    Grace Lutheran Chapel School in St....
    10 images
  • Video chat backgrounds
    Video chat backgrounds
    26 images
  • Create in us new and contrite hearts
    Create in us new and contrite hearts
    8 images
  • Standing before the throne
    Standing before the throne
    10 images
  • 2020 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
    2020 March for Life in Washington,...
    10 images
  • 2020 Initial Gathering for Making Disciples for Life
    2020 Initial Gathering for Making...
    16 images
  • Music-Minded Ministry in Iowa
    Music-Minded Ministry in Iowa
    14 images
  • Music Ministry in Sri Lanka
    Music Ministry in Sri Lanka
    14 images
  • 2019 Service of Installation for President Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison
    2019 Service of Installation for...
    26 images
  • 2019 LCMS Convention in Tampa
    2019 LCMS Convention in Tampa
    86 images
  • The church at work
    The church at work
    20 images
  • Call Day 2019
    Call Day 2019
    20 images
  • God's holy Word in Taiwan
    God's holy Word in Taiwan
    15 images
  • Gathered around the Good News in Papua New Guinea
    Gathered around the Good News in...
    44 images
  • 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
    2019 March for Life in Washington,...
    17 images
  • Treasures of the church
    Treasures of the church
    12 images
  • The best photographs of 2018
    The best photographs of 2018
    23 images
  • Lutheran schools love their students
    Lutheran schools love their students
    24 images
  • 30th Annual Wendish Fest in Serbin, Texas
    30th Annual Wendish Fest in Serbin,...
    18 images
  • 2018 Corpus Christi Conference in Prague
    2018 Corpus Christi Conference in...
    33 images
  • Mercy Medical Team in Sierra Leone
    Mercy Medical Team in Sierra Leone
    51 images
  • The final graduation at Concordia College Alabama
    The final graduation at Concordia...
    31 images
  • Family of God dedicates chancel in Detroit
    Family of God dedicates chancel in...
    20 images
  • Unity in Christ: A look at Lutheran altars
    Unity in Christ: A look at Lutheran...
    24 images
    One family, one fellowship, one body of Christ. As an ongoing personal project, LCMS photographer Erik Lunsford photographs altars in Lutheran churches around the world. Look to the cross as we all gather around Word and Sacrament.
  • In the wake of Hurricane Harvey
    In the wake of Hurricane Harvey
    25 images
  • Celebrating National Lutheran Schools Week
    Celebrating National Lutheran...
    19 images
  • 2017 Year in Photos
    2017 Year in Photos
    30 images
  • LW Faces of the Synod
    LW Faces of the Synod
    24 images
  • Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
    Celebrating the 500th Anniversary...
    18 images
  • Guatemalan Lutheran church celebrates the Reformation
    Guatemalan Lutheran church...
    25 images
  • Responding to Hurricane Harvey
    Responding to Hurricane Harvey
    49 images
  • 2017 Institute on Liturgy, Preaching, and Church Music
    2017 Institute on Liturgy,...
    32 images
  • The Last Lutheran chaplain at Tyson Foods
    The Last Lutheran chaplain at Tyson...
    11 images
  • Students make warm blankets for families in need
    Students make warm blankets for...
    18 images
  • Flooding ravages Missouri
    Flooding ravages Missouri
    21 images
  • in Togo, a moment decades in the making
    in Togo, a moment decades in the...
    21 images
  • 2017 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
    2017 March for Life in Washington,...
    22 images
  • Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti
    Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti
    27 images
  • 2016 Service of Installation for President Harrison
    2016 Service of Installation for...
    36 images
  • 66th LCMS Convention in Milwaukee
    66th LCMS Convention in Milwaukee
    48 images
  • Help for the homeless in New Orleans
    Help for the homeless in New Orleans
    13 images
  • The faithful few in Brownsville
    The faithful few in Brownsville
    24 images
  • A new mission in Mexico
    A new mission in Mexico
    21 images
  • Hosanna in the Highlands of Sri Lanka
    Hosanna in the Highlands of Sri Lanka
    45 images
  • Christ's Care for Children: Kenya
    Christ's Care for Children: Kenya
    32 images
  • Caring for refugees in Germany
    Caring for refugees in Germany
    54 images
    With more than a million Middle Eastern asylum-seekers, flooding into Europe, a new mission field is growing exponentially for the Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche (SELK), a church body that has been actively receiving refugees and catechizing them for decades. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, managing photojournalist in LCMS Communications.
  • Refugees baptized into Christ
    Refugees baptized into Christ
    16 images
  • New wells bring life-giving water in Malawi
    New wells bring life-giving water...
    45 images
  • Follow the Rev. Adam DeGroot, national missionary to Philadelphia
    Follow the Rev. Adam DeGroot,...
    42 images
  • LCMS Disaster Response responds to flooding in South Carolina
    LCMS Disaster Response responds to...
    23 images
  • Life through Owen's Mission
    Life through Owen's Mission
    16 images
  • Y4Life serves in Florida
    Y4Life serves in Florida
    28 images
  • Planned Parenthood protest in St. Louis
    Planned Parenthood protest in St....
    13 images
    Lutherans and other supporters protest Planned Parenthood on Saturday, August 22, 2015, outside the facility in St. Louis. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications.
  • St. John's Lutheran in New Minden, Illinois, rededicates after tornado
    St. John's Lutheran in New Minden,...
    19 images
  • On the move with the Rev. Peter M. Burfeind in Toledo, Ohio
    On the move with the Rev. Peter M....
    34 images
  • July 2015 Service of Sending for new missionaries
    July 2015 Service of Sending for...
    23 images
  • 2015 LWML Convention in Des Moines, Iowa
    2015 LWML Convention in Des Moines,...
    19 images
  • St. John Lutheran in Pilger, Nebraska, rebuilds after twin tornadoes
    St. John Lutheran in Pilger,...
    20 images
    About 75 St. John Lutheran Church members and guests join the Rev. Terry Makelin, pastor of the church, for a Day of Supplication and Prayer service at St. John Lutheran Church on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Pilger, Neb. A year ago to the day, with the service almost to the hour, rare EF-4 twin twisters destroyed the church along with the majority of Pilger. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and a writer in LCMS Communications.
  • Tornado destroys Zion Lutheran in Delmont, South Dakota
    Tornado destroys Zion Lutheran in...
    59 images
    Parishioners begin to pick up the pieces in Delmont, S.D., after a tornado swept through the area on May 10, 2015, destroying Zion Lutheran Church and nearby buildings. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford. staff photojournalist and a writer in LCMS Communications
  • Old Latin School dedicated in Wittenberg
    Old Latin School dedicated in...
    44 images
  • Mercy for Peru after tragic landslides
    Mercy for Peru after tragic landslides
    64 images
    Offering mercy in Peru, LCMS Disaster Response Director Rev. Ross Johnson was on the scene soon after heavy late-March rains triggered massive landslides there. In the region around Lima, Johnson and local missionaries surveyed effects of the landslides that killed residents and displaced others, while causing significant infrastructure damage. Also affected was a preaching station and a local school named Noe (Spanish for Noah), where the LCMS is involved in an ongoing mercy project. Johnson led training on the Theology of Mercy and the Theology of the Cross with the missionaries — the Rev. Herb Burch, the Rev. Mark Eisold, the Rev. Joshua Gale and Deaconess Intern Caitlin Worden — and discussed with them potential ideas to further partner on existing mercy projects in Peru. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and a staff writer with LCMS Communications.
  • Raising Church Workers for Tanzania
    Raising Church Workers for Tanzania
    98 images
    “Today we give thanks to God,” the Rev. Dr. Timothy Quill said March 14, “as we celebrate the graduation of the first pastoral and deaconess classes from the Bishop Makala Training Center” in Tanzania. The next day, the 21 new pastoral candidates were ordained and seven deaconesses commissioned in a service with more than 1,000 worshipers at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania — South-East of Lake Victoria Diocese’s (ELCT-SELVD) Ebenezer Cathedral in Shinyanga. Quill is director of International Studies and associate professor of Pastoral Ministry and Ministry and Mission for Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. (CTSFW), whose faculty teaches in the two-year training-center program that stems from a partnership between the Synod and the ELCT-SELVD. That partnership developed after Bishop Emmanuel Makala of the diocese requested help in developing the training program in 2013 from CTSFW President Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr. Funding for the training program is made possible by a grant from the LCMS Global Seminary Initiative, which Quill oversees. Makala preached at the March 15 service of ordination and commissioning. Following the service, he invited Rast, Quill, LCMS Office of International Mission Area Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Rev. Shauen Trump, and a group from the LCMS Mid-South District to offer greetings to the congregation. The Mid-South District provides financial support for the theological education of Tanzanian pastors. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications
  • Tangible care for women in crisis
    Tangible care for women in crisis
    64 images
    Since opening in November 2013, Redeeming Life Maternity Home in Sanford, Fla., has provided a home and a family setting for 13 women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications.
  • Bearing mercy in the Baltics
    Bearing mercy in the Baltics
    44 images
    See how LCMS church partners, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania, are bearing mercy and service through Diaconia work in the Baltics. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications.
  • Chaplain bears Christ to U.S. Marines
    Chaplain bears Christ to U.S. Marines
    35 images
    Commander Charles Varsogea, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, helps nourish the young recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. See photographs from his work during worship, his prayer and presence at the graduation ceremony, and his late night call for help from a troubled recruit. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications.
  • EECMY, LCMS leaders sign revised working-partnership agreement
    EECMY, LCMS leaders sign revised...
    45 images
  • 2015 March for Life
    2015 March for Life
    21 images
  • The daily work of LCMS Chaplains
    The daily work of LCMS Chaplains
    24 images
    In hospitals, senior centers, and other facilities, chaplains work often behind the scenes nourishing the sick and elderly. See photographs of several chaplains at work in their daily vocations. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications.
  • 2015 TABOO National LCMS Campus Ministry Conference
    2015 TABOO National LCMS Campus...
    31 images
    See photographs from the 2015 TABOO National LCMS Campus Ministry Conference at Saint Louis University. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications.
  • Tin Roofs in Madagascar reflect relationship FLM-LCMS Relationship
    Tin Roofs in Madagascar reflect...
    42 images
    In the extreme southern part of Madagascar, the Malagasy Lutheran Church — known locally as the Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy (FLM) — and the LCMS have joined in a project to install tin roofs on FLM churches around the country. For that project, the LCMS gave a $100,000 grant. Church leaders note that this is just one indication of the developing relationship between the two church bodies that are committed to Holy Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. They also say the tin-roof project has enhanced opportunity for witness in local churches’ communities and fostered teamwork among members involved in roof construction. Other signs of that growing relationship over the past decade include FLM pastors studying at the Synod’s two U.S. seminaries and the LCMS working with synods of the Malagasy church to carry out mercy projects like HIV awareness, hospital projects and Mercy Medical Team trips.
  • 2014 Mercy Medical Team in Madagascar
    2014 Mercy Medical Team in Madagascar
    31 images
    Members of the Mercy Medical Team traveled to small towns near Antsirabe, Madagascar, to treat nearly 2000 patients in October, 2014. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications
  • The inauguration of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Lee Gard
    The inauguration of the Rev. Dr....
    17 images
    See photographs from the inauguration convocation for the Rev. Dr. Daniel Lee Gard, president of Concordia University Chicago, at the college in River Forest, Ill., on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications
  • Filming 'The First Rosa' in Selma, Alabama
    Filming 'The First Rosa' in Selma,...
    52 images
    See photographs from the week-long filming for 'The First Rosa' documentary film in and near Selma, Ala. Led by Director Dr. Ardon Albrecht, the film tells the untold story of Lutheran educator and church planter Rosa J. Young. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist and writer in LCMS Communications.
  • St. Paul in Hamel rededicates after fire
    St. Paul in Hamel rededicates after...
    13 images
    The Rev. Benjamin Ball leads a Divine Service of Rededication at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamel, Ill., on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. It's the first time the congregation has worshipped in the sanctuary since a fire damaged the building in November 2013. "Returning to the House of the Lord after being away for 10 months was one of the greatest days of my life, mostly because I was thinking how much joy it was bringing to the people of God. They were back in the place they were baptized, where they heard the funeral sermons of the blessed dead, where week after week they hear the gospel and receive the body and blood of Christ. The children of God were back in their Father's House which really is the gate of heaven, so there was all joy and thanksgiving." A grant from LCMS Disaster Response was given to the church to aid in the rebuilding. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications.
  • Youth Corps in Philadelphia
    Youth Corps in Philadelphia
    21 images
    On August 10-17, 2014, thirteen LCMS young people (including two proctors) spent days together in service, learning, and community. They took part in a pilot program for Lutheran Youth Corps, a project of LCMS Youth Ministry. The participants ranged in ages 16-20, and were either upperclassmen in High School or are attending or entering college. Participants came from across the United States, as far west as New Mexico and the Dakotas. The students came together under the program’s theme, “Life Together through Witness and Mercy.”
  • 2014 Institute on Liturgy, Preaching, and Church Music
    2014 Institute on Liturgy,...
    32 images
    Presented by LCMS Worship, the 2014 Institute on Liturgy, Preaching and Church Music at Concordia University Nebraska attracted more than 400 participants. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications
  • Mercy Medical Team in Kenya
    Mercy Medical Team in Kenya
    73 images
    14 members of an LCMS Mercy Medical Team (MMT) from different LCMS congregations around the United States traveled to rural Kenya in East Africa to treat about two thousand patients from surrounding villages. Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, staff photojournalist in LCMS Communications