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Calendar Highlights
8/28 Congregational Life Committee Meeting
9/6 Office Closed - Labor Day
9/8 10am FCTE
9/11 Synod Council
9/22 Deans Meeting
9/27-29 Professional Leaders Conference
10/7 Interim Pastors Meeting
10/31 Synod-wide Reformation Worship/Ordination Service
3/19/2011 Annual Congregational Resourcing Event at Kishwaukee College in Malta, IL
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July Birthdays
2 Rev. William Welk
3 Rev. Lee Bennight
3 Rev. Jonathan Black
5 Rev. Gary Erickson
5 Rev. Bruce Booher
6 Rev. Garry Briesacher
7 Rev. Philip Gronbach
7 Rev. Sue Ellen Grudt
10 Rev. Susan Kent
11 Rev. Dr. Roger Helgren
12 Rev. Jeffrey King
13 Rev. Rebecca Gordon
13 Rev. Kenneth Swanberg
14 Rev. Jane McChesney
15 Rev. Jamie Gallagher
16 Rev. Norm Femrite
17 Rev. Tom Larsen
17 Rev. Rodney Juell
20 Rev. Judi Huseth
20 Rev. Lynn Bergren
20 Rev. Steven Erickson
22 Rev. Sharon Rogers
22 Rev. Michael Lawyer
23 Rev. Mark Helge
24 Rev. Stanton Bockwoldt
25 Rev. C. David Vidler
25 Ms. Carol Ostrom
26 Rev. William Nelson
27 Rev. Sherry Hoening
27 Rev. Vernon Tweedt
28 Rev. Frank Moyer
29 Rev. Kathleen Flores-Shubert
30 Rev. Richard Meier
30 Rev. Denver Bitner
30 Mrs. Ann Ziegert
31 Rev. Dr. Dale Peterson
31 Rev. Mark Luepke
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 New Cemetery Law - If your congregation has a cemetery and is in the 35th Senate District, you may benefit from attending a meeting arranged by State Senator Brad Burzynski regarding the new Cemetery Oversight Act. The meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday, July 20, at the DeKalb County Center for Agriculture, 1350 W Prairie Dr. Sycamore. For more information, contact NIS member Jim Johnson at tresitect@aol.com or call Senator Burzynski's office at 815-895-6318.
Have a new address, phone number, email, etc.? Synod leaders, please remember to notify the synod office when you or your congregation has changes in your contact information. Call or email Judi Fields jfields@nisynod.org or 815-964-9934 so we can update our records.
Register online for the Professional Leaders Conference with Susan Briehl and Marty Haugen September 27-29, 2010 at Bishop Lane Retreat Center, Rockford.
The Northern lllinois Synod Women of the ELCA 22nd Annual Convention will be September 18 at First Lutheran Church, DeKalb. Find registration, scholarship, and nomination forms here.
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| Churchwide News & Resources |
 Lutheran Disaster Response was named the 2010 "Member Organization of the Year" by National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, a coalition of nonprofits that respond to disasters and/or develop preparedness and recovery programs. "This award is in recognition of all Lutherans who love and serve their neighbors affected by disaster," said Kevin A. Massey, director of LDR and ELCA Domestic Disaster Response. "It also recognizes the more than 20-year history of Lutherans helping serve in communities from Grand Forks, N.D., to New Orleans and in countless other places." Read the article.
 They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration by Stephen Bouman (Author); Ralston Deffenbaugh (Author) is available from Augsburg Fortress. By virtue of Lutheranism's spiritual heritage and identity in America as an immigrant church, Lutherans are specially placed to give hopeful leadership about the controversial issue of immigration in the United States today. They Are Us explores the biblical, historical, theological, and cultural foundations for Lutheran participation in a public conversation that has important implications for the future of this nation. Read Presiding Bishop Hanson's letter, Time for Immigration Reform.
Fast Facts 7/19/2010 - 99.86% of the additional resources committed by the G20 to the poorest countries in April 2009 will add to these countries' long-term debt burdens.
 Readers of The Lutheran and users of www.thelutheran.org are being asked to share their impressions of the magazine. This survey is part of a larger effort to assess readers' opinions about The Lutheran. All data collected will be aggregated and presented to the staff and the magazine's advisory committee in October 2010. The staff will use the data to reshape the magazine to better serve its targeted populations. Please take the survey today.
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Continuing Education Opportunities
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From Luther Seminary:
August 16-20, 2010 - Breaking Down Barriers That Keep People From Engaging Scripture
August 23-25, 2010 - Discover Your Call: Dependable Strengths™
September 20-22, 2010 - Process Preaching: A System for Delivering Extemporaneous Sermons
September 15-17, 2010 - Desert Spirituality
October 4-6, 2010 - Celebration of Biblical Preaching: Biblical Preaching as a Matter of Life and Death
Find out more about these classes and more.
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