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Links to Useful Resources for Congregations

 

Explore, learn, have fun, get excited! This is just a small sample of what is available in the way of resources for your congregation. If you find more great links, send them to us and we will consider adding them to this list. Send them to NISCongLife@msn.com

  •  http://www.elca.org/ The Home page of the ELCA

  •  http://www.elca.org/education.html Education resources from the ELCA

  •  http://www.elca.org/dcm Division for Congregational Ministries

  •  http://www.elca.org/dcm/lace Lutheran Association of Christian Educators

  • http://www.elca.org/dcm/Christian_Education/resources Scan through the following outline of this packet. It highlights tools and provisions for planning another year of Christian Education. You will also find Bible studies and intergenerational program outlines for teaching the fundamentals of faith from a Lutheran perspective. Please feel free to adapt this material to enrich your own context and intent.

  •  http://synodresourcecenter.org/ Northwest Wisconsin Synod resource center. Borrow tapes, books and other materials at minimal cost. Many print materials can be downloaded to print.

  •   http://www.augsburgfortress.org/ The official publisher of the ELCA. Source for Sunday School, VBS, pastors, lay members.

  •  http://www.readyclickgrow.com Exploring Web-based resources for ministry from Augsburg Fortress.

  •  http://www.link2lead.com/L2L/start.asp Subscription paid for by the Northern Illinois Synod for its congregations. Link2Lead.com is a new web site for local church pastors and lay leaders like you. It is brought to you by Percept, the leading information provider to religious organizations for the past 15 years, and our growing client family of over 270 denominational regional bodies and national offices from all across the United States. Through Link2Lead.com, we are dedicated to providing you and other leaders with the latest information about your community, hands-on tools to better understand and develop your own capabilities and a variety of additional resources to assist you in leading your congregation into the new world of opportunities awaiting us in the 21st century.

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