Synod Prayers
The monthly rostered leader prayer calendar is online at www.nisynod.org/prayers
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Calendar Highlights
8/8 Churchwide Voting Members Meeting 10am-1pm
8/17-23 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis
9/2 Interim Pastors' Meeting
9/3 Deans' Meeting
9/12 Synod Council meeting at Christ, Belvidere, with worship and installation of new Council members and afternoon meetings of all NIS standing committees. Committee photos will be taken.
9/28-30 Professional Leaders Conference at Bishop Lane, Rockford (note NEW location)
10/17 Coffee with the Bishop at Immanuel, Dixon
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July Birthdays
29 Rev. Kathleen Flores
30 Rev. Denver Bitner
30 Mrs. Ann Ziegert
30 Rev. Richard Meier
31 Rev. Dr. Dale Peterson
31 Rev. Mark Luepke |
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 Online registration for the 2009 Professional Leaders Retreat is now available. This annual event will be September 28-30, 2009 at Bishop Lane Retreat Center, Rockford, IL. Presenters are Richard H. Bliese and David Cherwein. Visit the PLC webpage for more information. Augsburg Fortress bookstore will not attend this year's event, however a local bookstore run by the wife of NIS pastor James Olsen will be on site. Due to the facilities at Bishop Lane, the store will only be able to accept cash or check. So please come prepared. Many pertinent and interesting titles will be available.
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 Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson has called each of us to 50 days of prayer leading up to the churchwide Assembly which begins Aug. 17. This church is invited to pray for wisdom in discernment for the ELCA and voting members of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly. Prayers, scripture readings and hymns are posted at http://www.ELCA.org/50days .
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News from Other Organizations
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David Renneke, a retired physics professor at Augustana College, Rock Island, now serves as a Webmaster for the Jenny Lind Chapel in Andover, known as a "Landmark of Pioneer Faith." He hopes the http://jennylindchapel.org Web site will attract even more visitors to the historic chapel. The chapel was the first church building of the former Augustana Synod. It became the ''mother church'' for hundreds of other Lutheran churches that utlimately became part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Tour de Revs is coming to Rockford August 7-9! Find out the 
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