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Calendar Highlights
4/14 Retired Rostered Leaders Luncheon at Christ, Belvidere
6/18-19 Synod Assembly
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March Birthdays
1 Rev. Brent Dahlseng
2 Rev. Myron Bartell
4 Rev. Susie Hill
6 Rev. Arthur Stees
6 Rev. David Nygard
8 Rev. William Dahlberg
9 Rev. S. Kim Lee-Brown
10 Rev. Amy Nyman
13 Rev. Kendall Koenig
15 Rev. Kamphou Sisouphanthong
15 Mrs. Karin Graddy
16 Rev. Thomas Jacoby
18 Rev. Robert L. Hansen
19 Rev. Jamie Wallace
20 Rev. Nichole Johnson
20 Rev. Gerald Peterson
20 Rev. Sarah Schaffner
23 Rev. Pat Esker
23 Rev. Patricia Woods
23 Rev. Terry Dufur
26 Rev. Ralph Radloff
27 Rev. John Leaf
27 Rev. Barbara Melaas-Swanson
27 Rev. Carol Gates
28 Rev. John Swanson
29 Ms. Jane Atteberry
30 Rev. Paul Johnson
31 Rev. Mark Juliot
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New Synod Office hours are 9 am - 4 pm.
Visit www.nisynod.org/lent  every day for a devotion written by a rostered or lay leader of the Northern Illinois Synod.
All are invited to attend t
he service of installation
of
Rev. Dr. Michael E. Thomas
to serve the congregation of
Zion Lutheran Church
Rockford,
Sunday, March 7, 3 PM at Zion, 925 5th Avenue. A
reception with refreshments will follow this service. Clergy are invited to vest. The color of the day is purple.
We welcome your prayers as well as your presence.
Online registration for the Congregational Resourcing Event is now open. Workshop topics will include: Christian education, companion congregations, conflict, diakonia, economy, endowments, evangelism, global missions, greening, hospitality, hunger, immigration, justice, leadership, mission trips, missional leaders, multi-generational ministry, older adults, outreach, prayer, sabbaticals, science, social justice, social media, spirituality, stewardship, treasurers, veterans ministry, visual media, women's ministry, creative worship ideas, worship music, and youth ministry (whew!). Many groups, agencies, and institutions will have displays. Find out more. |
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 Join ELCA Online Town Hall Forum on March 7. You're invited to attend a one-hour live webcast Sunday, March 7, at 5 p.m. EST (4 p.m. CST) with ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson and ELCA members from across the country. Visit www.elca.org/townhall to find out how you can participate in this event. | More | News | Video promo  | Bulletin insert 
From the Hand in Hand Global Mission Support Blog
- Kate Lawler (ELCA missionary serving as ELCA regional representative for South America) offers an update of Lutherans in Chile, along with a helpful map.
- Learn how you and your congregation(s) can participate in OT-G: Easter and send Easter greetings to ELCA missionaries and other service personnel.
- Subscribe to the Hand in Hand Blog Digest and automatically receive new stories and updates in your e-mail inbox. Find the subscribe box in the upper right corner of http://blogs.elca.org/handinhand.
 ELCA Health Plan members, before you take the health assessment, drive the speed limit (you'll thank us later). www.elcaforwellness.org
Fast Facts March is Women's History Month. Investment in women and girls yields high development returns. An extra year of primary school boosts girls' eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. An extra year of secondary school: 15 to 25 percent. Learn more amazing facts about women at www.girleffect.org.
This week at The Lutheran
 Going 3 deep: (right) In New England, they're studying '40 days, 3 persons, 1 God.'
ELCA member helps 54 orphans in Haiti.
Now what? How do I help my teen with Lenten discipline? Daughter is inspired by Roman Catholic friends to give up something for Lent.
Congregations vote to leave.
Also: Northeastern Iowa Synod council backtracks.
Also: Congregation & bishop argue vote.
Also: Chicago church fire.
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News from Other Organizations
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Cry Out Against Hunger. Art Simon, founder of Bread for the World will speak at a prayer service March 25 at 7 pm at the 2nd Congregational Church, 318 N Church St in Rockford and at a Soup Lunch, Friday, March 26 at noon at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 3300 Rural Street in Rockford. Please RSVP for the lunch by calling Carol Burmeister at 815-397-5579.
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| Immanuel Lutheran Church, Amboy is looking for a pianist to accompany the choir. Familiarity with Lutheran liturgy and music is helpful. The choir performs 2 times per month, 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, practice is every Wednesday at 6:30. There are no practices or performances during the summer. This is a paid position, based on the number of pratices and performances each month. Interested persons are to call the church 815-857-2225. |
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