Publications
The Minnesota South District has several regular publications that update, encourage, and support local leaders. Click one of the items below or keep scrolling to explore the different available publications. Email communications@mnsdistrict.org if you’d like to be added to any of the mailing / email lists for these publications.
eNews
Minnesota South District's weekly email newsletter is sent each Tuesday
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To add an event, announcement, or prayer request to the eNews, please email communications@mnsdistrict.org before 8 a.m. on the Tuesday you would like it included.
Social Media
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Weekly Circuit
Prayer List
This week, please join us in praying for the congregations, schools, commissioned ministers, and pastors of Circuit 12, the Winona Circuit (Circuit Visitor: Rev. Richard Moore).
Lutheran Witness Supplement
Minnesota South District’s supplement from the Lutheran Witness, an official periodical of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
To receive the Lutheran Witness in the mail, with the District supplement included, please contact 1-800-325-3040 (option 2) or email lwsubscriptions@cph.org
One Voice for
Public Policy
Minnesota South District’s resource to help leaders engage in public policy from a Lutheran perspective
Click on the title of any of the articles below to read its entirety.
Main Street Living
Sundays at 9 a.m. on WFTC
Main Street Living offers a worship experience to the many who cannot or do not attend worship on a regular basis. Main Street Living airs from 9 - 10 am each Sunday on WFTC. The first half hour is re-mastered episodes of the popular “This is the Life” TV series from Lutheran Hour Ministries. The second half hour is a modified Lutheran worship service featuring a message from a different Minnesota pastor each week.
Main Street Living airs each Sunday at 9 am on WFTC Channel 29/9-2 with an episode of This Is the Life. This week’s episode is “Holy Land Tour pt. 2” – A video tour of locations in Jesus’ earthly ministry, led by SD pastor Nabil Nour who grew up in Israel.
The worship service begins at 9:30 am with Rev. James Norton from Bethlehem and Zion Lutheran Churches in Fall Creek, WI, presenting a message titled “Does the Cross Make Sense?” based on 1 Corinthians 1:18.
Check out the Twin Cities tab of the Main Street Living website for additional information.
Congregations are encouraged to share information about the program in their weekly bulletins and newsletters.
Here are the links for the weekly bulletin announcements: March 2024
Although endorsed by the Minnesota South District, Main Street Living receives no financial backing from the District or Synod. Individuals and church groups finance the program through generous donations.
What does it look like … what does it feel like to be pushed to the margins of society? Well, of course, for Christians, things have been moving in this direction for quite a few years now, but it appears that this may become a much more felt reality for all of us in the near future.