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On this day in the year...
1530: Martin Luther wrote that the Augsburg Confession pleased him.

IRA Rollover Provision Extended — Good news! The IRA Rollover Provision has been extended for two years and is retroactive to January 1, 2008. That means, for donors age 70½ and older, all gifts up to $100,000 transferred ("rolled over") from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to a charitable organization are exempt from taxable income. As you review your estate plans, you may want to consider the tax benefits of making a gift to support Concordia Historical Institute. For more information, please contact our business manager, David Rutledge, at 314-505-7940 or by email.

Finding CHI during Highway Construction — Beginning on December 15, 2008, the portion of I-64/Highway 40 between 1-170 and Kingshighway will be closed through the end of 2009. Visitors who are driving to the Institute on the Concordia Seminary campus can take advantage of the mapping/directions feature provided by the Missouri Department of Transportation just prior to their departure from home to visit the Institute. This mapping/directions feature may be accessed at this Web Page. Concordia Historical Institute regrets any inconvenience our visitors may experience during this massive construction project. For further assistance in planning a visit, please call (314) 505-7900 or click here to contact us by email.

CHI Museum Construction Progress — Activity has picked up significantly in recent days on the installation of the CHI Museum at the LCMS International Center. The selecting of artifacts and writing descriptive text has been completed, and the designer and fabricator are hard at work putting everything together with the goal of a summer opening. At right is a section of the Reformation room depicting Martin Luther at the Wartburg Castle and his Bible translation work. Below is the ship Hualco, on which some of the "Old Lutheran" immigrants from Prussia came to the U.S. Below left is a section of the Immigration room showing the routes of the various immigrant groups that made up the Synod.

For additional information about the CHI Museum project, click here.

Your continuing support for this project is most important!

We are also looking for volunteers to greet museum visitors during the hours when the LCMS International Center is open. Contact us at 314-505-7900 or email us at chi@chi.lcms.org.

• Interments at the Western Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Louis (adjacent to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Marcus and Lexington Avenues) are now available online at the Find a Grave web site.

• The CHI Service Bulletin series is being updated and offered online in PDF format. These publications may be downloaded and printed freely for use as needed. Bulletins 1 ("What Is Archival-Historical Material?") and 2 ("Guidelines for Congregational Archives") are now available.

• The Summer 2008 issue of Historical Footnotes provides a preview of the CHI Museum that is being installed at the LCMS International Center, as well as a profile of the Saxon Lutheran Memorial at Frohna, Perry County, Missouri.

• Check our Google Maps of LCMS churches in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Saint Louis, Missouri.

• The Institute’s Biennial Conference on Archives and History was held on October 25–27, 2007. The theme of the conference was "Preserving the Church's Story." Click here for presentations and handouts from the conference. The next conference is scheduled for October 1–3, 2009.

• Read "Walther's Evening Lectures on Inspiration" translated by Dr. Thomas Manteufel in our Walther Round Table section.

• Order a CD of LCMS Doctrinal Resolutions

• Download our Awards Nomination Form [PDF document]

• Links to Lutheran Church Records Online

• Search for an item in libraries near you with the WorldCat search tool at the bottom of the left column.

Fall 2008 CHI Quarterly Features Evangelism, Chicagoland Churches and the Missouri Synod's 1847 Constitution — This issue includes Part Two of the memoirs of Oswald A. Waech, leader in evangelism; a survey of Missouri Synod Chicagoland churches; Wilhelm Loehe's thoughts on the 1847 synod constitution. It also includes a tribute to Gladys Suelflow-Krause.

CHI Quarterly Back Issues Available

Visit Our Military Chaplaincy Exhibit

The Institute's museum exhibit, In the Gospel: LCMS Military Chaplaincy, is continuing through 2009. Be sure to view this comprehensive presentation of the service of LCMS chaplains from the Civil War to the present when you are on the Concordia Seminary campus in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Click here to download the exhibit brochure (PDF format).

Support CHI While You Search the Web

You can support the Institute while you search the World Wide Web. If you use GoodSearch as your Internet search engine (powered by Yahoo!) and list Concordia Historical Institute as your charity of choice, we receive $0.01 for each search. Go to www.goodsearch.com to sign up.

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