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Northern Lights
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(If you have a prayer request to share, please submit them to stein@cord.edu
And as we move through the year the synod staff offers up general prayers for synod leaders in alphabetical order. Please join us this week as we pray for: Floyd and Mary Ann Synstelien Jeffrey and Kristen Teeples Linda Tenneson Kenneth and Cynthia Thiele Wayne and Martha Thompson Kristin Thvedt Curtis and Debra Tilleraas Phillip and Janet Tobin Mitchell Tolpingrud Jill and Jerald Torgerson Erwin and Alice Toso Robert and Linda Toso Steven and Susan Trandem |
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Seminary Preview for High School Students at Luther CLICK HERE for a PDF postcard for the annual PREVIEWS event co-hosted by Luther Seminary and Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. PREVIEWS is the opportunity for pastors to identify and invite High Schoolers to a day at Luther Seminary. |
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Welcome to the new look Northern Lights. We hope this will open up new avenues of information and make it easier to access items of interest to you. We encourage you to suggest names and email addresses of others in your congregation who would like to receive Northern Lights. Please forward those names/addresses to Michael Stein, stein@cord.edu. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Submissions Items for Northern Lights are due by Tuesday, noon. Submit to stein@cord.edu. |
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Becoming a Gracist Community Gracism: Becoming a Gracist Community, Saturday April 4, 2009, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Pelican Rapids. MORE
Grace, Hallock, Concert Series The 2009 Grace Concert Series in Hallock, Minn., is excited to present Fawn Bakken and Karissa Dennis in a Piano and Organ Concert Sunday, March 8. MORE |
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Make March Our Month to Reach 75% Health Assessment Participation The Northwestern Minnesota Synod needs you to take the 2009 Mayo Clinic Health Assessment by March 29! It's the difference between a synod-wide savings of $46,000 for all of 2009.
Mission/Service Trips to Iowa In March, the Northwestern Minnesota Synod Office is helping to support and promote a mission opportunity to aid in flood relief efforts in Iowa. MORE
Ventures: Partners in Stewardship Registration is now open for participation in the Ventures: Partners in Stewardship series. The first workshop will be held Saturday, April 25, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wadena from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. MORE>
Soul2Sole Senior High Youth Gathering Online registration for Soul2Sole, the Senior High Youth Gathering, April 17-19, has begun. For lots more information about the gathering and online registration link, CLICK HERE.
Amnesty Month This is the month to check your bookshelves in your church and home offices, etc. for any items that might belong to the Northwestern Minnesota Synod Resource Center. If these books, Bible Studies, DVD’s, videos, etc. are not being used, please send them back home. Some of these items have never seen their new home at the Riverside Center. There will be no criminations for keeping these things beyond their time. Just bring them to the office (or send them in the mail so that others may also enjoy them. Thank you.
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Notes From Around the Synod |
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Synod Notes & Events |
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Advocacy Events |
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Continuing Education |
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Lutheran Social Service Seeks Adoptive Parents Join us to learn about exciting opportunities and changes in adoption. The adoption information meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Clay County Service Center, located at 715 North 11th Street in Moorhead.
Call Lynn Haggar at (612) 879-5230 or 1-888-205-3769 to register. For more information, or to register online, visit www.minnesotaadoption.org. |
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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Meetings, Events of Interest |
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Q: What do you get when you cross a Colllie with a Lhasa Apso?
A: A Collapso, a dog that folds up for easy transport. |
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May 16, 17, Concordia College. Watch for materials being mailed soon; and watch for new online registration details coming soon. |
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Scholarship Deadline Extended for End Poverty Event The ELCA Washington Office has extended the scholarship deadline to March 20 for the Mobilization to End Poverty event, April 26-29.
Afghanistan: Church World Service Responds to 'Catastrophic' Food Crisis The most severe drought in a decade is fueling a grave food crisis in Afghanistan that now threatens millions of people with food shortages and possible starvation, reports global humanitarian agency Church World Service.
CWS, with long-established offices and staff in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has announced it is providing immediate assistance to the most vulnerable in three challenged provinces and has issued a U.S. fundraising appeal.
Be a Voice in Shaping a Moral State Budget Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and Lutheran Social Service invite you to the Capitol on March 10, 2009. We believe we must speak clearly about how our state solves its budget problems. MORE |
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March 5, 2009 |
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Rev. Keith Zeh, Director for Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission for the Northwestern Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota, recommends:
Lutherans Chart a New Plan for Evangelism As a mainline denomination, the 4.7 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is engaging in an effort to start new congregations and strengthen its existing 10,448 congregations across the country. MORE> |
