We are excited to announce the CNH District's Church Worker Care Team. The Church Worker Care Team is a group of fellow church professionals that the CNH District has asked to be available to come alongside District church workers during a challenging time in their lives to provide them with a listening ear and spiritual support.

If you would like to learn more or make use of this resource, click here. You can also contact Joel Wahlers at the CNH District Office or any of our Church Worker Care Team members.

The August edition of The Joyful Servant, the CNH LWML's newsletter is now available. This issue includes changes to the CNH LWML Executive Board, a Mission Grant update, updates from various zones, and more.

Click here for The Joyful Servant.

The Worship Arts Leader initiative (WALi) is a community-building initiative of Concordia University Irvine’s Center for Worship Leadership (CWL) which, rooted in the Lutheran Confessions, harmonizes leaders across various contexts (whether it be traditional, contemporary, multi-ethnic, etc).

The Summit is a national conference created to promote connectivity with one another for shared learning, common support, and professional inspiration. It is intentionally designed to address the needs of worship arts ministry staff, volunteer leaders, team members, pastors and students preparing for church worker vocations. WALi is for everyone!

What: 2024 WALi Summit

When: October 1-3, 2024

Where: Risen Savior Lutheran Church, Chandler, AZ

Click here to learn more and to register.

The 2025 LHM Rose Parade float entry is titled Behold! Jesus the Savior is Born and marks the 74th time the ministry has been part of the parade. Look at those stained glass window witnessing messages in the public square!  

If you would like to help decorate the Rose Parade floats this December, click here.

Join Pastor Bob and Sue Schroeder, as they travel to Germany and “Experience Martin Luther’s Reformation” and much more from April 28-May 9, 2025.

For more information, go to www.ittworld.com and use the tour code RSchroeder25 or email the Schroeders at revbob531@yahoo.com. They are targeting a group size of 20-25 and would be excited to have you.

Click here for a PDF flyer with details. 

Jeff Cloeter, the Senior Pastor of Christ Memorial Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Missouri, will be the keynote speaker at the 73rd CNH District Convention. The Convention will be held May 15 – 17, 2025, at Hilton Sacramento Arden West, Sacramento, CA. The event will begin with dinner and opening worship at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Rocklin, CA, on Thursday evening, May 15.

Jeff has worked in youth ministry, church planting, and senior leadership in his congregation. He has served on the board of directors for the Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, and the founding board of Momentum Academy, a charter school movement in the City of St. Louis. He founded and serves as director of The Harbor Leadership Collective, raising up young Christian leaders through a regional internship model. He currently serves on an ecumenical council called Oikos, with the Archbishop of St. Louis and eight other pastors from the region.

Jeff is the author of Loved & Sent, and blogs at sixthgen.com. More importantly, he is married to Bobbi and father to Bella, Joshua, Emily, and Jacob.

The theme for the Convention is “Fruitful Branches” (Pruned for Growth) based on John 15:1-3.

Convention information can be found at the CNH District website.

Please keep the following congregations in lifted prayer as they minister to those affected by wildfires in California:



Park Fire

Redeemer, Chico; Mt. Olive, Corning; Calvary, Oroville; Our Savior, Paradise; St. Paul, Red Bluff; Trinity, Redding

Borel Fire

Shepherd of the Hills, Lake Isabella

The two fires highlighted here are being battled by thousands of firefighting personnel. The Park fire now has burned more than 370,000 acres and the Borel Fire in the Kern River Valley about 50,000 acres. While members of our churches there have evacuated or been advised to do so, none has yet lost their homes. (The fires are currently burning in sparsely populated areas). CNH DDRC Rev. Phil Zabell has been monitoring the fires and recommending pathways of response for congregations and pastors.

If you would like to contribute to the CNH District’s Disaster Relief Fund to assist fire victims, click here.

Dear Lord God, creator and preserver of all, we lift those before you who are affected by these fires in body and in spirit, and those who battle them to protect lives and structures. Be their strong protector. Encourage them through your word and spirit and utilize your body, the people of the church, to come alongside them with compassion and care. In the name of Jesus, our redeemer and curer of our souls, Amen!

The CNH District’s Nominating Committee is requesting nominations for the slate of candidates to be presented to the CNH District Convention, held May 15 – 17, 2025. 

Nominations are needed for several positions. Click here to view the job descriptions for these positions. (Note that Regional Vice Presidents will be nominated and voted into office at the Regional Caucus at the Convention.) Click here for the Nomination Form to send your suggested nominations by Monday, August 26, 2024, to Nominating Committee member, Dan Hahn, at info@cnh-lcms.org.

Convention Nominations FAQ page: Click here

PDF with more information and links: Click here

The Conference of the Holy Cross is a free conference of Lutheran pastors, who serve congregations in the Bay Area and Central Valley of California, and laity in those regions. The Conference gathers in order to present and to discuss papers written by its participants and also to provide a venue for noteworthy, engaging topics. The Conference collects no fees and has no membership obligations, except a commitment to frank and lively expositions of confessional Lutheran theology.

What: The Common Good and Diversities of Practice

When: Wednesday, September 11, 10 a.m - 3 p.m.

Where: Lutheran Church of Our Savior, Cupertino, CA

To RSVP, or for more information, contact Pastor John Bestul.

Click here for a pdf ad.

Besides the titles you expect from MTC (Old Testament, New Testament, Interpreting Scripture, and Proclaiming the Faith), there are some very practical courses on tap for this fall including one that is new. Check them out!

New in 2024:  MTC 017 - Congregational Life Cycle:  Aug 15 - Sep 5, 2024, Thursdays 6-8 PM (Pacific) with Tina Jasion, DCO

MTC 014 - Church Administration: Organizing Ministry for Mission: Independent Study between Zoom Meetings on Sep 9 & Oct 5 with Rev. Tim Bayer

MTC 013 - Starting New Ministries: Oct 1-22, 2024, Tuesdays, 6-8 PM (Pacific) with  Rev. Dr. Peter Meier

For more information contact mtc@missiontrainingcenter.com.