Melby will continue to serve as an LFC regional consultant. Melby announced his retirement at the LFC Foremen's Conference, Jan. 9-11 in St. Louis. More than 100 foremen, regional consultants and spouses attended the annual conference, which provides updated information on such topics as new building materials and construction techniques while giving LFC leaders an opportunity to share their experiences and concerns. LFC, a program in which retired Lutherans help build or remodel churches and other synodical structures at considerable savings, has scheduled at least 51 projects for 1992. Laborers are always needed.
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St. Louis sem, LWML collect materials for Czechoslovakia More than 130 cartons of books and other printed materials are expected to be shipped to Czechoslovakian Lutherans within the next few weeks. The cartons, packed with thousands of items donated by students and faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and members of the Missouri District of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League, were sent this month to the Massachusetts-based Sabre Foundation for shipping to Eastern Europe. The 10,581 items include new and used elementary and high-school textbooks, hymnals, Bibles, journals, encyclopedias, Sunday school materials and children's literature. The items were collected last summer and fall in response to a request from Dr. David Daniel, a university professor in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, who has been retained by the Synod's Board for Mission Services to explore ministry opportunities in Eastern Europe. The theological materials will be distributed by Luther Houses in Eastern Europe, and the educational items will be used at the Evangelical Lyceum school in Bratislava.