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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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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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