Hundreds of students from Lutheran schools in the Fort Wayne area will converge for an Easter-season concert at Concordia Lutheran High School on Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m. Free and open to the public, the concert will include combined bands, several choirs, orchestra, and a string ensemble.

Dianne Moellering, band director at Concordia Lutheran High School, and her colleagues instruct band and string programs at most of the schools in The Lutheran Schools Partnership, the organization promoting The Lutheran Schools in northeast Indiana. Intermediate and advanced band students from these partner schools will join forces for this concert.

Nick Webb from Holy Cross Lutheran School and the entire contingent representing St. Paul’s Lutheran School were lauded during the National Lutheran Basketball Association of America (LBAA) Tournament at Valparaiso University on March 22-24. Both schools are members of The Lutheran Schools in northeast Indiana.

Webb earned the Individual Player Sportsmanship Award, while the group from St. Paul’s received the Mel Doering Team Sportsmanship Award.

A great emphasis is placed on sportsmanship during the annual tourney. Sportsmanship is an imposition of a code of conduct on everyone that supersedes any competition or any consideration of winning or losing.

Jon Dize

Jon Dize, advancement director for The Lutheran Schools Partnership, received two prestigious honors—the Outstanding Chapter Leader Award and the Creativity Award—during the annual national conference of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives (ALDE) in Indianapolis in February.

ALDE is an international community of fundraising and communications professionals rooted in the Lutheran tradition of the Christian faith and dedicated to serving God’s people in the church and the world as it inspires, connects, and equips Christians for excellence in philanthropy.

The Lutheran Schools in northeast Indiana will be well-represented during the 2013 Indiana Lutheran State Basketball Tournament, which runs from Friday through Sunday, February 22-24, in Indianapolis.

The St. Paul’s Lutheran School boys will be going after their third consecutive state title. Also vying in the boys bracket are Emmanuel–St. Michael, Central, Concordia Lutheran School, and Holy Cross. Concordia Lutheran School, St. John Emmanuel, Holy Cross, and Emmanuel–St. Michael will compete in the girls bracket.