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Thanks Wendy for all your service!

Wendy Krause, Gethsemane's go-to office manager for the past 13 years has announced her retirement, effective February 11, 2010.  Gethsemane will honor Wendy on Sunday, February 7th during Coffee An'.  Wendy looks forward to being a volunteer with Gethsemane's project team...or at least enjoying coffee with them in the mornings!  Thanks again Wendy for everything you have done as an employee to further God's ministry at Gethsemane.

With that....We Need a Part Time Parish Secretary

Know anyone with organizational skills, people skills and basic computer skills that can work part-time Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays from 8:30am to noon and 1-4pm?  Can this person maintain confidentiality, be trusted with finances and learn quickly?  If so, please send a cover letter and resume to Pastor Nathan Sager.

Adult Lounge and Bathrooms Receive Extreme Makeover

The Adult Lounge, also used as the Bridal Room (see picture to the right), never quite recovered from water damage years earlier.  This January though, Gethsemane's Project Team, made up of Willard Aho, Ron Wilsey, Steve Manninen, Penny Stecker, Larry Storm, Ken Siebert and Pastor Nathan, ripped up carpet, tiled, primed, painted, sealed, and decorated the Adult Lounge and the downstairs men's and women's bathrooms.  Job well done team! 

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ELCA News Minimize

World Orthodox Leader Tells ELCA Delegation Dialogue Will Continue
*** Please note corrected text in this story, replacing references to Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue in the United States with the international Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue through the Lutheran World Federation. John R. Brooks Director, ELCA News Service Chicago ISTANBUL, Turkey (ELCA) -- His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, world Orthodox leader, said that official international theological dialogue with the Lutheran World Federation will continue. He made the comm...

ELCA Delegation Visits Closed Orthodox Seminary in Turkey
HEYBELIADA ISLAND, Turkey (ELCA) -- They wait faithfully and hope. Two Orthodox leaders, Metropolitan Apostolos, abbot, and Father Dorotheos, maintain the Holy Monastery and Theological School at Halki, waiting for the day when students will be allowed to resume seminary studies here. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4441 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews...

ELCA Ecumenical Delegation Visits Church of England, Anglican Communion
LONDON (ELCA) -- An official delegation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met with officials of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, discussing matters such as a proposed "Anglican Covenant," global Lutheran-Anglican relationships and a breakaway Anglican church in the United States. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4440 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: h...

ELCA Youth Return to New Orleans in 2012
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Youth Gathering of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will return to New Orleans in 2012. Returning to a host city consecutively is unprecedented in the history of ELCA Youth Gatherings, according to Heidi Hagstrom, director for youth gatherings, ELCA Vocation and Education. The gathering will take place July 18-22, 2012. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4439 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@e...

ELCA Presiding Bishop, Delegation Meet Archbishop of Canterbury
LONDON (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson met with Dr. Rowan D. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a private hour-long meeting Feb. 4 at Lambeth Palace here. After the meeting Hanson said the two discussed strengthening Anglican-Lutheran relationships, challenges each leader faces within his own communions, the proposed "Anglican Covenant" to deepen internal church relationships, global environmental issues, Christian-Muslim relationships, and mutual concern for conflicts in pla...

Lutherans in Great Britain Represent Variety of European, African Cultures
LONDON (ELCA) -- The Rev. Timothy Dearhamer describes the congregation he serves here "as an example of what the Lutheran Church aspires to be -- multicultural and multiracial." Dearhamer, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) pastor from Oklahoma, said regular worshipers at St. Anne's Lutheran Church include more than 30 nationalities, not unusual for Lutheran congregations in Great Britain. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4437 For information contact: ...

ELCA Synod Bishop H. Julian Gordy to Preach on 'Day 1,' Feb. 14
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. H. Julian Gordy, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Southeastern Synod, Atlanta, will preach Feb. 14 on "Day 1," a nationally broadcast radio program. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4436 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews ...

Lutherans, Others Advocate on Migration Issues at Ecumenical Advocacy Days
WASHINGTON (ELCA) -- More than 700 people of faith from across the country are expected to discuss migration issues and visit Capitol Hill for the eighth annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice Conference, March 19-22. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4435 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://twitter.com/elcanews ...

Funeral for Ben Larson, ELCA Seminarian, to be Held Feb. 6
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A service of "song and prayer" for Benjamin Judd Larson will be held Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, Decorah, Iowa. Immediately following the service Larson, 25, will be buried in Phelps Cemetery, Decorah. Larson, a seminary student of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), was killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4434 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news...

Robert S. Wilch, Former Lutheran President, Dies
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Robert S. Wilch, president of the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America (LCA), died Jan. 29 of complications from heart surgery. He was 86. The LCA is a predecessor church body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4433 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elc...

ELCA Joins in Lutheran Malaria Initiative Startup in Southern Africa
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutherans in southern Africa and staff of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan. 11-15, to plan efforts to help prevent and control malaria, and to discuss building organizational capacity to meet the challenge. More http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4432 Information about the Lutheran Malaria Initiative is at http://www.ELCA.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/lutheran-malaria-initiative....

ELCA Northeastern Iowa Synod Council Rescinds Churchwide Assembly Responses
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Northeastern Iowa Synod Council voted this past weekend to rescind two resolutions it adopted in November in response to the sexuality decisions of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The council rescinded the resolutions decisively "after extensive and open conversation," wrote Susan Armstrong, Mason City, Iowa, synod vice president, in a Feb. 1 letter to the synod. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?...

ELCA Gifts to Haiti Earthquake Response Exceed $2.7 Million
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Gifts by congregations and members sent to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for response to the earthquake in Haiti total more than $2.7 million through Jan. 29, according to ELCA Treasurer Christina Jackson-Skelton. Nearly 16,000 individual gifts have been sent to the ELCA, she said. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4430 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twit...

Lutheran HealthCare, Brooklyn, Prepares for Haitians Arriving in U.S.
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Staff of the Caribbean-American Family Health Center, one of several satellite clinics of Lutheran HealthCare, Brooklyn, N.Y., are preparing to provide treatment for patients arriving in the United States from Haiti -- while at the same time caring for their own professional staff whose family members are either missing or have died there. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4429 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@...

State of Florida Calls on Lutherans to Serve, Welcome People From Haiti
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The State of Florida has enlisted the help of Lutherans to receive Haitians with U.S. passports and accompany injured Haitians entering the United States from earthquake-ravaged Haiti. More http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4428 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elcanews ...

ELCA Presiding Bishop to Lead Delegation to Visit World Church Leaders
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- An official Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) delegation of clergy and lay leaders will travel through Europe Feb. 3-17, visiting world Christian church leaders and key staff based in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva. The 2010 Ecumenical Journey, led by the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), is part of the church's declaration of ecumenical commitment, adopted by the 1991 ELCA Churchwide Ass...

Scott Roeder Convicted of Murdering Dr. George Tiller, ELCA Member
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A Kansas jury convicted Scott Roeder of first- degree murder Jan. 29. Roeder gunned down Dr. George Tiller, a member of Reformation Lutheran Church, Wichita, Kan., in the church foyer before Sunday service May 31. Tiller was one of few physicians in the United States who performed late-term abortions and was often targeted by anti- abortion protests. Reformation is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). More: http://www.elca.org/...

Lutheran College Students Airlifted Out of Machu Picchu
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Two professors and 21 students from Gustavus Adolphus College stranded in Machu Picchu, Peru, were airlifted Jan. 28 to the nearby city of Cusco. The group was among an estimated 2,500 tourists in Machu Picchu waiting to be evacuated, after heavy rains and floods produced mudslides there. Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter, Minn., is one of 27 colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4425 ...

Body of ELCA Seminary Student, Ben Larson, Recovered in Haiti
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The body of Benjamin Judd Larson, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) seminary student who died in the Haiti earthquake, was recovered Jan. 28. Larson, who was teaching theology to Lutherans in Haiti at the time of the disaster, was buried when the building he was in collapsed. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4424 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news Twitter: http:...

'Renewing the Ecology of the ELCA Task Force' Plans Work Toward 2011
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- A 12-member task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), plus observers from other church bodies and staff, met together for the first time this month to begin work to develop and recommend options for the ELCA's future. Task force members will seek input for their work from ELCA leaders and members this spring. More: http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4423 For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elc...
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