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For the week before Sunday, June 17, 2007
Walking Together is a weekly e-mail newsletter
of the Northern Illinois Synod best viewed in html. If you cannot read
this e-mail or see the graphics, go to
www.nisynod.org/pubs/wt .
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It's here! Synod Assembly is this coming Friday & Saturday, June 15 & 16. If you are coming to assembly, see you there! If you're not coming, please be in prayer for the assembly and the voting members. You can "follow the action" online at www.nisynod.org/assembly/2007 . Photos and highlights of the assembly will be added to the website during and after the event.
Read the Synod Assembly welcome letter from Bishop Wollersheim at www.nisynod.org/assembly/2007 .
Online registration for Synod Assembly is now closed. If you have not yet registered, you may still do so in person at the assembly. Registration is open at Centennial Hall Thursday evening, June 14, from 8-9:30 pm and again Friday morning, June 15, starting at 8:00 am.
Don't forget your in-kind offering when you're packing for Synod Assembly! Gift cards to Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walgreens, and CVS will be collected at the 2007 Synod Assembly for this year’s in-kind offering. Please put your gift card(s) in an envelope, and mark the total value on the outside of the envelope. These envelopes will be collected near the registration desk in Centennial Hall during the assembly. The gift cards will be sent to Camp Victor, the recovery effort started by Christus Victor Lutheran Church in cooperation with Lutheran Disaster Response.
The Synod Assembly Bulletin of Reports is available online at www.nisynod.org/assembly . It may be downloaded as one large document for those with high speed internet access or in smaller sections.
Rostered leaders are asked to have their pictures taken at the Synod Assembly for a new Synod Directory. Photography will take place in Bergendoff 163 on Thursday evening from 7-9, Friday from 8-4, and Saturday from 8-noon. Please make an effort to stop by and help us make a complete directory.
Childcare at Synod Assembly is different this year from previous years. Find out more HERE>>.
The Northern Illinois Synod's
Diakonia Program would like to extend an invitation to
all members of the Northern Illinois Synod to attend the
Diakonia Program's graduation program on July
14 at 2pm at Christ, Belvidere. Bishop Gary
Wollersheim will preach. We will have 15 students this
year graduating from our two-year program of adult lay
education. This brings the total of graduates in the
Northern Illinois Synod to 45. We would encourage all
pastors who attend to vest and process (color of the day
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Bishop Wollersheim, the Synod staff, voting members, and visitors at the Synod Assembly - June 15-16.
Pr. Rick Meier (Alpine, Rockford) at the death of his mother, Isabel, on June 9.
Rostered leaders celebrating birthdays this week including: Rev. Orlo Espeland 6/12, Rev. David Patterson 6/12, Rev. Timothy Olson 6/12, Rev. Ralph Kuespert 6/13, Ms. Judith Rooney 6/13, and Rev. Carl Rasmussen 6/14, Rev. Rodney Juell 7/17, Rev. Tom Larsen 7/17, Rev. Patricia Madden Baik 7/17, Rev. Lynn Bergren 7/20, Rev. Judi Huseth 7/20, Rev. Steven Erickson 7/20. (if we missed your birthday, please send it to Karin@nisynod.org)
Joseph Garcea, Sarah Gehring, 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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Today's mission churches require a renewed and committed laity. Diakonia provides the tools required for empowering lay persons for ministry in today's world. Diakonia is looking for interested students for the fall for its new location in Peru as well as the current locations in Cary, Rockford, and Moline. For further information about this two-year theological program for lay people, please contact Douglas Liston at (815) 385-2700 (work) or (815) 331-3000 (home) or dliston@premmag.com or go to www.nisynod.org/ministries/diakonia.htm.
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Jamm Jazz Music Camps for young musicians and teachers at Emmanuel, Rockford, July 9-20. Find out more at www.davidstocker.net .
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