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For the week before Sunday, December 17, 2006
Walking Together is a weekly e-mail newsletter
of the Northern Illinois Synod best viewed in html. Additional news and information can be found at the Walking Together Annex |
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The Northern Illinois Synod Lutheran Youth Organization (LYO)
will sponsor a Lutheran Ski Day on Monday, January
15, (Martin Luther King Jr Day) at Chestnut Mountain,
Galena, IL Find out more
HERE>>
Synod Youth Coordinator Jonette Knock has resigned effective December 31, 2006. Read more in a letter from Pr. Jeff Clements, assistant to the Bishop HERE>>.
See photos from the cruise to visit the highlights of Paul's second and third missionary journey to Greece, Turkey and Italy which was held from November 2 to November 11, 2006.
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Mark & Brenda Sisson (St. Paul, Sterling) as Mark recovers from heart surgery.
Rostered
leaders celebrating birthdays this week including: Rev. Troy Hedrick 12/6, Rev. Thomas Heyd 12/7, Rev. Carl
Swanson 12/8,
Rev. Jay Quinn 12/10, Rev. Henrietta Milner 12/13,
Rev. Charles Olson 12/15, Rev. Peter Rasmussen 12/16, Rev.
Gene Peisker 12/17, Rev. Linda Jarchow Jones 12/20, Rev. Daniel Stalker 12/21 and
Nathan Clements, Elizabeth Conway, and the other NIS candidates for rostered ministry. Find the complete list of NIS Candidates at www.nisynod.org/candidates.htm .
Those not named here who need our prayers.
Send prayer requests to karin@nisynod.org.
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Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor: Lutherans Talk About Human Sexuality ELCA members will study the Bible book of Galatians, Martin Luther's essay "On the Freedom of a Christian" and a new eight-part study of issues related to human sexuality over the next year. "Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor: Lutherans Talk about Human Sexuality" is now available online or in print and there are chapter-by-chapter online discussions. Responses to this study will help shape an ELCA social statement on human sexuality in 2009.
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On Saturday, January 20,. Muslim New Year, from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. Trinity, Rockford’s Adult Education Task Force is offering a time to review the ELCA resource “Jewish, Muslim, Lutheran Relations”. Experts are welcome and all are invited. Contact Pr. Len Hoffman at Len@trinityrockford.org .
Are you a fan of the Moravian Church's Daily Texts?
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Walking Together is a weekly e-mail newsletter that brings you all the news you need to know to stay up to date on happenings in the Northern Illinois Synod. It is sent to rostered leaders, congregations, and others by request. To be added to the listserv, change your e-mail address or otherwise manage your subscription, please click the link on the right or e-mail Karin@NISynod.org Your submissions, comments, and suggestions are welcomed. Contact Karin Graddy, Communication Director for the Northern Illinois Synod at Karin@nisynod.org. - If you are changing your e-mail address please send your name, old e-mail address, and new e-mail address to NISNews@comcast.net .
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Karin@NISynod.org
Rockford, IL 61101
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In
this season of giving...
Bach
for the Sem, an annual benefit concert for the Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago features three major choral
works with orchestra - a Buxtehude Advent Cantata, Part 3 of
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the Epiphany portion of
Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Hodie” to be performed Sunday,
January 14 at 4:00 at Saint Luke Church, 1500 West
Belmont, Chicago. Dr. Mark Bangert will lead the chorus and
orchestra. Daniel Schwandt, LSTC staff musician, is the
featured organist for works paying tribute to Dietrich
Buxtehude on the 300th anniversary of his death. Tickets are
$13 in advance; $15 at the door. Student and senior tickets
are $6 in advance; $8 at the door. Children under 12 are
admitted free of charge. To reserve tickets, phone
773-256-0712.
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