People gather in congregations each week to worship their Lord and Savior. There they praise and thank God and grow in their faith through hearing the Word and participating in the sacraments. Congregations, however, use different forms and practices in their worship. In 2025, the WELS Commission on Worship surveyed all WELS congregations about some of those practices. Find out what it discovered. 

God has blessed called workers and laymembers in our congregations with creative gifts that they use to praise their Savior in worship. Read about those gifts to the church from a gifted creative writer herself in "Creative gifts from the Creator himself." 

While weekly corporate worship is important for every believer, spending daily time with your Savior is also vital. Three WELS members share more about their devotional lives, offering tips and resources for you to consider in "My devotional life." You can add to your personal devotional life by spending time with a new Bible study that digs deeper into Jesus’ parables found in the gospel of Luke.

Finally, we leave you this month with a psalm of praise and worship. 

- Julie Wietzke, managing editor