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For the week before Sunday, January 7, 2007
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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Federal Mileage rates for 2007 are available HERE>>.
Kids, Money & Stuff Train-the-Trainer Session Rescheduled
to Saturday, January 27, 9am-noon.
This is the only notice you
will receive of the rescheduled event. What are your
kids learning about money & "stuff"? Today’s culture might
be giving the wrong message about the differences between
needs and wants. God's Word and the leaders in your
congregation teach a better way for living—and for giving.
Kids, Money & Stuff is a six-hour shared retreat experience
for adults and children. Participants will learn together
through sharing, activities and games. All children and
adults will have the opportunity to make commitments to
personal giving, family giving and a group giving project.
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Pr. Sarah Schaffner (First, Lee) and Pr. Steve Dow (Faith, Rochelle) on the birth of a son, Elijah Steven Schaffner Dow Rostered leaders celebrating birthdays this week including: Rev. Kathleen Burkheimer 1/1, Rev. Paul Wold 1/2, Mr. R. Frederick Becker 1/5, Rev. Thomas Schattauer 1/6, Rev. F. Jan Bengtson 1/7, Rev. Daniel Witkowski 1/7, Rev. Arnold Thoren, Jr. 1/8, Rev. Orlyn Huwe 1/8, Rev. David Lawson 1/9, Rev. Dorothy Wilcox 1/9, and Rev. Paul Uhl 1/9. (if we missed your birthday, please send it to Karin@nisynod.org) Kristen Falth, Jessica Fertig, 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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ELCA Global Mission has produced a Lenten series
for congregational use. The regular components include a
sermon by an ELCA missionary, worship ideas, soup supper
recipes, bulletin cover, and other materials that can be
used to globalize the Lenten worship experience. Please
check
www.elca.org/globalmission/lent for more
information.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will offer
two winter global mission programs in 2007, and one
significant Global Mission Event in July. All three
events feature worship, music and learning, with emphasis on
how the ELCA can "accompany" Lutherans in mission throughout
the globe. An "ELCA Global Mission Festival" will be held
Jan. 26-28 at St. John Lutheran Church, Winter Park,
Fla. The following weekend, Feb. 2-3, an "ELCA Global
Mission Fiesta" is planned at Shepherd of the Valley
Lutheran Church, Phoenix. This summer an ELCA Global Mission
Event is to be held July 19-22 at The Ohio State
University, Columbus. The winter events are new, said
Sunitha Mortha, associate director for Global Mission Events
and mission interpretation, ELCA Global Mission. Both are
designed to be smaller and shorter in length than the
traditional Global Mission Event, and focus on regional
versus national participation, she said.
The latest Women of the ELCA update is available online. |
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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 .
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Wheat Ridge's January Newsletter is available online HERE>>.
Wheat Ridge Ministries is pleased to share the latest issues of "Just Watching," "Brokering Wheat Ridge" and "Engaging the Aging" at http://www.wheatridge.org/newsletters.shtml
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), in
partnership with Wheat Ridge Ministries, Itasca, Ill., is
offering financial assistance to Lutheran churches to
encourage the development of new programs and services for
immigrants and refugees. Good Samaritan seed grants will be
awarded to congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod or the
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Applicant
congregations will be expected to contribute at least 25
percent of the project cost, either through cash or in-kind
support. Funding priority will be given to projects that
demonstrate at least one of the following services to
immigrant communities: social ministry projects, joint
projects between community members and new residents, public
education or advocacy, and leadership development within the
ethnic groups served. Grants will not be made to individuals
or church agencies, nor will they be made to support refugee
reception and placement activities, refugee resettlement
programs or projects of evangelism. Interested applicants
may download the application packet or review grant
guidelines at www.lirs.org
. For more information on the Good Samaritan grant program,
please contact Pam Bloom, LIRS Senior Consultant for
Organizational Capacity Building, at 410/230-2875 or
pbloom@lirs.org . |
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Send your bulletin board items to NISNews@comcast.net.
Find more Bulletin Board Items in the Annex
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...are now available online, and are updated on the first week of each month.
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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
Graddy,
Associate in Ministry
Karin@NISynod.org
Rockford, IL 61101
815-964-9934 - office Fax: 815-964-2295 <>< Making Christ Known <><
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