Registration and Check-In begin at 12:00 PM on Monday. Cost is $65 (Emeriti and wives $35). Register online or fill out a paper registration form and return to the district office with a check. Mail to: Iowa District East LCMS, 1100 Blairs Ferry Rd, Marion IA 52302-3093.
A housing package is available at Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca for an additional $35 which includes breakfast. Rooms have been reserved at a nearby hotel for $99. A registration link for the hotel room will be provided at the end of registration and in your confirmation email.
AMERICINN CEDAR RAPIDS
8910 6th St. SW
CEDAR RAPIDS IA 52404
319-632-1800
Monday
12:00PM Registration
1:00PM Opening Worship
1:45PM Session 1
3:00PM Break
3:30PM Session 2
4:45PM Closing Devotions
Supper at Camp
Tuesday
8:30AM Opening Worship
9:00AM Session 3
10:00AM District Business
10:30AM Break
11:00PM Session 4
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM Sectional
2:00PM Break
2:30PM Session 5
3:45PM Closing Devotions
Registration for the 2026 Fall Pastors’ Conference scheduled for October 5-6, 2026 in now open. Rev. Dr. Jason Lane of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis will present on Sola Scriptura, Quia Subscription, and Adiaphora: Let’s Talk
All pastors of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod affirmed at their ordination that they believe and confess the canonical Scriptures to be the inspired Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Not only is our doctrine ruled and normed by Scripture alone, but also our practice. And because the Confessional Writings contained in the Book of Concord are a true exposition of Holy Scripture, we also promised to perform the duties of our office in accordance with these Confessions.
Divisions, however, have arisen in our church based on church practice. One group may say that Scripture or the Confessions require this or that practice. Others may claim that all practices not prescribed in Scripture are adiaphora and we are therefore free to practice and worship as each person or congregation thinks best.
In these five sessions, I will attempt on the basis of Scripture, the Confessions, and the writing of Luther and others to make better sense of the relationship between doctrine and practice in the Lutheran Church today. From our study and conversation together, it is my hope that we who are entrusted to preach, teach, and administer God’s saving word and sacraments to sinners would be strengthened to believe, teach, and confess—with one voice and one heart—Christ and everything He has commanded us.
Dr. Lane is Associate Professor of Historical Theology and the Director of Research, Assessment and Academic Programming at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He joined the faculty in 2024. Before joining the faculty at Concordia Seminary, Lane taught theology at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis. (2013–24), served as assisting pastor at Luther Memorial Chapel and University Student Center in Shorewood, Wis. (2013–24) and as pastor at Celebration Lutheran Church in St. Johns, Fla. (2010–13).
He earned his doctorate (Dr. Theol.) at the Universität Hamburg in Germany (2015), his S.T.M. and M.Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. (2007; 2010), and his B.A. in Psychology from Framingham State College in Framingham, Mass. He was also an exchange student at the LCMS’s partner church’s seminary (SELK), Lutherische Theologische Hochschule in Oberursel, Germany (2005–06). His areas of interest include Martin Luther and the theology of the Lutheran Reformation, biblical exegesis in the age of the Reformation and the age of Lutheran Orthodoxy, and the theology of the nineteenth-century Confessional Revival. He is the author of “Luther’s Epistle of Straw: The Voice of St. James in Reformation Preaching” (De Gruyter, 2018), has contributed to various journals, popular and scholarly, and provided English translations of numerous books from German since 2008. Since 2025, he serves as the General Editor of the translation project, “The Reformation Writings: The Dogmatic-Polemical Writings of Reformation History from 1517–1546” for Concordia Publishing House, a proposed 19-volume companion to “Luther’s Works: American Edition.”
