Skip to content
Sign up for FIC e-news
Forward in Christ logo

Sign up to receive our free e-newsletter that includes articles, photos, special sneak-peeks, and more straight to your e-mail inbox each week.

Sign up for e-news

DATA PRIVACY & PERMISSION *
The WELS Privacy Policy states that I can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in e-mails received from WELS websites or via the Contact Us form.

NOTE TO EU CITIZENS, RESIDENTS, TOURISTS, AND OTHER PERSONS TEMPORARILY IN THE EU:
By submitting this form you consent to any and all information you provide and submit via the site being sent to the United States of America. The United States has not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. WELS relies on derogations for specific situations as set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR. You are also informed that the United States presently does not have an adequate level of personal data protection as determined by the European Commission’s adequacy decision on October 6, 2015 (case c-362/14) and articulated in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and has not received a similar designation of adequacy by any other foreign data protection authority. You agree to the transfer of your data and personal data to the United States, however, to be used in accordance with WELS Privacy Policy.

NEXT STEP: Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

To exit click outside of this form or use the "X" on the top right corner.

  • NOVEMBER ISSUE
  • NEWS
  • COMMUNITY
  • PODCASTS
  • VIDEOS
  • ARCHIVE

Search

ficWebLogo
Read more about the article Community news: October 2025

Community news: October 2025

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2025/09/30
  • Post category:Forward in Christ/FIC News/District News

On June 22, Beautiful Savior, Cincinnati, Ohio, celebrated the 40th anniversary in the pastoral ministry of Thomas Westra. St. John’s, Pardeeville, Wis., celebrated the 40th anniversary in the teaching ministry…

Continue ReadingCommunity news: October 2025
Read more about the article Community news: June 2025

Community news: June 2025

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2025/05/30
  • Post category:Forward in Christ/FIC News/District News

The Lutheran Military Support Group celebrated its 10th anniversary in May. Shepherd of the Hills, West Bend, Wis., dedicated its new sanctuary on April 13. St. John, Wauwatosa, Wis., celebrated…

Continue ReadingCommunity news: June 2025
Read more about the article Free in Christ: Member ministry

Free in Christ: Member ministry

  • Post author:Ron Wels, Daniel Simons, Mark Birkholz
  • Post published:2024/12/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

“We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us” (Romans 12:6). Read how three congregations encourage members to use their gifts to serve others. Your life…

Continue ReadingFree in Christ: Member ministry
Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Craig Wilke

Moments with missionaries: Craig Wilke

  • Post author:Craig Wilke
  • Post published:2023/02/28
  • Post category:FIC News/Forward in Christ

The response to free Sermon illustrations are not always easy to come by. Sometimes you rack your brain for a story, a life experience, something you’ve read, but nothing comes…

Continue ReadingMoments with missionaries: Craig Wilke

WEEKLY E-NEWS

Receive our free weekly e-news that includes special sneak-peeks, photos, and videos.
Sign up

Your stories

Every Christian has a story of faith to share. What’s your story? Send us an article or an idea to consider for future publication.

Submit articles

As WELS' official magazine, Forward in Christ is a ministry of WELS. Please consider a gift so that Forward in Christ can continue to share your stories of faith, WELS news, and a deeper look at what it means to be a Lutheran.

Donate
  • Home
  • About FIC
  • Contact
  • Copyright
  • Media kit
  • Buy FIC magazine

wels logo linked to wels.net© 2025 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Privacy Tools

Manage Consent

By accepting this message, you consent to our cookies on this device in accordance with our cookie policy found in the WELS Privacy Policy, unless you have disabled them.

Essential Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Analytics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Promotional
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Customize
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}

Close Panel