Last weekend our congregation hosted a ministry called Youth Encounter. A band that tours the United States by the name of Captive Free came for a Saturday night concert and helped to lead Sunday School and our later worship service on Sunday morning. What an important ministry! Here are some pictures.
50 Days of Prayer
Leading up to this August’s ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis, the ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson is encouraging all ELCA members to engage in 50 Days of Prayer. See the link below (and after that, to the left in the blogroll) to download the guides. Begins June 29 and runs through August 17, 2009.
http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Office-of-the-Secretary/ELCA-Governance/Churchwide-Assembly/Schedule/Prayer.aspx
Synod Assembly 2009
The Southeastern MN Synod of the ELCA will be meeting in assembly on Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2. If you are interested in a preview of the resolutions that will be considered, click here: http://www.semnsynod.org/assembly/2009/resolutions.html
Please pray for your voting members, pastors, special visitors, and all who gather as part of the body of [...]
Advent Conspiracy
Wow. Just…wow. Expect to see this tacked to the front of the blog from now until December 25th.
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Lutefisk Dinner Power Point
Reformation Sunday
Congratulations to the First Lutheran Confirmation Class of 2008. Here you are pictured (minus one student) with Pastor Karl Korbel. We look forward to celebrating wtih you on Sunday. Keep the faith!
For our devotion this week, I have two requests. One, pray for the students above. Two, watch the video [...]
Psalm 23
The lectionary, or prescribed set of Bible readings that we use in worship, assigns Psalm 23 as the psalm for this coming Sunday, October 12th.
This boy is named Tyler. His video was filmed while he was in the hospital recovering from heart surgery. Listening to him strengthened MY heart, too.
Watch the video:
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