Rev. Dr. Peter Nafzger join Mark and Julianna to talk about our theme of community and how we can carry it forward in healthy youth ministry.
{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Our Favorites, Revisited: CORN
In this riveting episode originally from August 2024, it’s a “cornival” of craziness as Erin leads Sarah and Rachel in an Iron Ladle Challenge celebrating the joys of “corn culture” (or “corny culture”) in midsummer.
End Goals — LCMS Youth Ministry: Gathering Finishing Pack – Staff Reflections
The LCMS Youth Ministry staff reflects on the 2025 LCMS Youth Gathering and celebrates what God did during our time together in New Orleans.
{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Sarah Goes to School: CUI Graduation → CSL Deaconess Studies!
Sarah wraps up her studies at Concordia University Irvine’s Townsend Institute for Counseling and Leadership as she revisits her capstone project on humor in the workplace and celebrates the completion of her M.A. in organizational leadership.
{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} International Mission 101: Missionaries Carol Halter & Chelsea Irwin
The Ladies welcome Deaconess Carol Halter, the LCMS’s longest-serving missionary, and Chelsea Irwin, one of the youngest LCMS missionaries, to share their stories of serving as international missionaries.
{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Leading Ladies: Donna Snow
In this joy-filled conversation (recorded in person at the LWML Convention in Omaha), the Ladies welcome “leading lady” Donna Snow to Lounge, as they continue celebrating and learning from Lutheran women in positions of influence in the church and around the world.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep1. Musician and Pastor: A Faithful Partnership – John Berg and Sam Eatherton
The two people that congregations depend on most to lead them in worship are, unfortunately, all too often at odds with each other. What should we know and do, as pastors and church musicians, in order to work together well?
{The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge} Young Lutheran Ladies: International Missionary Kids
In this eye-opening multicultural International Mission 101 conversation, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel welcome to the Lounge missionary teens Bella and Lydia.
End Goals — LCMS Youth Ministry: Gathering Finishing Pack – The First Sunday Back
We know that you are exhausted as you return from a big event like the Gathering. Mark and Julianna talk through some things to keep in mind in the first days and weeks after the Gathering.
End Goals — LCMS Youth Ministry: Live at the Gathering
Mark and Julianna record from the Interactive Floor of the 2025 LCMS Youth Gathering!