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January 20, 2008
Walking Together is a weekly e-mail newsletter
of the Northern Illinois Synod best viewed in html. If you cannot see the graphics, go to
www.nisynod.org/pubs/wt .
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The delegation from the Northern Illinois Synod is currently in India. Find out more about the trip, see photos and hear their impressions of the trip so far on their blog at http://nis2008india.blogspot.com . Updates have been coming daily so far! Please keep this group in your prayers for safe travel.
"We Are One in the Spirit " will lift up and
celebrate multicultural ministries of the ELCA and our synod
congregations. It will feature leaders from the ELCA
Multicultural Ministry Saff in Chicago, ELCA Ethnic Ministry
Directors and representatives of local congregations with
special multicultural ministries. The event will be
Saturday, February 9, 2008, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa.
Brochures with full information and directions to the church
are available to
download HERE
The In Kind offering at Synod Assembly will be a donation of environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and gift cards (probably to Menards) for LOMC. LOMC is designated as the “Synod greening” center.
Attention Quilters: Sandra Miceli of Miceli Drapery Company, 19714 E. Grant Highway, Marengo 60152, 815-568-8063, ext. 18, has fabric to donate to anyone from a church who asks for it.
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Bishop Wollersheim and the 28-member delegation from the Northern Illinois Synod as they prepare to travel to Arcot Lutheran Church in India in January of 2008.
Rostered leaders celebrating birthdays in January including:
Sarah Gehring, Ed Goelz, 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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2008 ELCA Global Lenten Series: "Global Companions: Who is My Neighbor?" Want ideas for Lenten midweek or Sunday services with a global focus? The ELCA Global Mission Web page ( www.elca.org/globalmission/lent ) offers everything you need for eight Lenten services (Ash Wednesday through Good Friday): downloadable worship outlines and liturgies, sermons, bulletin covers, Powerpoint-ready images, even recipes for global suppers! New this year is an Easter service from Jerusalem with a sermon by the ELCA pastor serving the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. This year's series explores the theme, "Global Companions: Who is My Neighbor?" Stories and sermons lift up the work of ELCA missionaries in Madagascar, Senegal, Peru, Costa Rica, Japan, Egypt, Lithuania, and Palestine. "We were able to be in touch with the Lutheran Church around the world through this series," says a pastor who has used the series. "It made us proud to be members of the ELCA. Members thoroughly enjoyed this Lenten series!" Download elements from www.elca.org/globalmission/lent
Order Eco-palms by
February 20 for Palm/Passion Sunday. Visit
www.lwr.org/palms
to order.
Another useful Lenten resource:
The ELCA World Hunger Lenten Fellowship Leader's
Guide, pp. 7--11 of the Advent 2007--Easter 2008
edition of ELCA World Hunger Congregation
Connections. Find these pages online at
http://www.elca.org/hunger/resources/hungerguide.html
or request a free copy of Congregation Connections
(ISBN 978-6-0002-2013-6) by calling 800/328-4648 or
by visiting the online store at
www.augsburgfortress.org/elcahunger . You can be proud to be a member of the ELCA! Look at some of the ministries YOU make possible through your congregation, synod, and churchwide organization. When you hear the stories you will proudly say, "Wow, the ELCA is really doing a lot!" How do we fund all that we together as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America? As a response to God's many blessings, you give your offering. Then your congregation gathers the offerings and uses some of that money to support its ministries. Some of those funds go to support your synod. Some funds support churchwide ministries across the United States and around the world. Here's a little known fact: Some churchwide funds come BACK to your congregation in the way of grants, services, programs and resources. Find out more at www.elca.org .
This week's front page features from The Lutheran magazine Thinking ethically: We need guidelines as we support those facing infertility. Tough decisions: Hope, pain and moving on after pregnancy attempts. To have a baby: The path to parenthood can be a roller coaster ride. Holy smoke: Our prayers rise like incense before God. Also: Stem cells: A moral question? Also: Presiding bishop: The genetics challenge. Also: Born to fly.
This week on The Lutheran's blog
Discuss
worship AND Amber Leberman (right) writes about congregations on the Web. Check out our blog ...
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“Perfect Potential: Seeking Excellence in Ministry” - 2008 LSTC Leadership Conference February 11–12, 2008, at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) The conference explores questions such as “What is the Christian understanding of excellence?” “What does it mean to talk about excellence in ministry?” and “How do we simultaneously celebrate and survive ministry?” Conference fees are $80 per day or $155 for both days. Recent LSTC graduates (2005- 07) may register for $100 for two days.For more information, email leadershipconference@lstc.edu or visit www.lstc.edu .
Faith & Science Brown Bag -- Perhaps We Are As We Do - Exploring the Possibility of Human Uniqueness What is a human being? Humanity seems to be both a part of the natural order and set apart from the natural order. Science often emphasizes humanity's "naturalness" while a host of theological and ethical considerations seem to require that humanity is something more. Lea Schweitz asks if we can do justice to both of these intuitions, saying G.W. Leibniz, a 17th century German Lutheran, offers a way to split the difference by suggesting that we are what we do. Drawing on his work, she will argue that this moral view of the human species provides a way for understanding ourselves as both unique in nature and yet part of it. Thursday, February 7, Noon-1:00 p.m. Council Room, 11th Floor Lutheran Center, 8765 W. Higgins Road, Chicago Directions: http://www.elca.org/localmap.html
Desert Cross Lutheran Church in Tempe,
Arizona is pleased to host this year’s ELCA “Churches
Starting Churches” Conference April 13-15, 2008.
The conference is intended for congregations interested in,
or actively involved in, mission expansion ministry. One of
the major objectives of the conference is to facilitate
“nuts and bolts” discussions related to churches starting
churches. Therefore, we are encouraging congregations to
bring clergy, staff and lay persons who are or will be
actively involved in their mission outreach efforts. The
brochure and registration form is available at
www.DesertCross.org
. We are asking your help in disseminating this information
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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.
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Rockford, IL 61101
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The Northern Illinois Synod Congregational Resourcing
Event (CRE) will take place Saturday, March 8,
2008 at Kishwaukee Community College in Malta, Illinois.
This year's theme is
“God Said What??!! Getting
Lutherans to Read the Bible.”
The
keynote speaker will be Dr. Ralph W. Klein, Christ Seminary-Seminex
Professor of Old Testament and editor of Currents in
Theology and Mission. Almost 50 other workshops will be
presented during the three sessions. Bring many folks from
your congregation, so you can get as much information as
possible. 
1/1
Rev. Kathleen Burkheimer
Now is the time to order
ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal's "God's Math"
40-day plus calendar and coin boxes, as Ash
Wednesday is February 6! 40-day calendar: Free. ISBN
978-6-0002-2015-0; 1 pkg=25 calendars. Coin box:
Free. ISBN 978-6-0002-2004-2; 1 pkg=25 boxes.
Request these and other ELCA World Hunger materials
by calling Augsburg Fortress at 800/328-4648,
visiting the online store at
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