is Bishop Assistant for Leadership and DiscipleLife with responsibilities for leadership support, candidacy, communications, continuing education and our DiscipleLife initiative.
Leader News Announcements
February, 2009
Holy Family (Sagrada Familia), our new mission start in Garland, is in need of chairs, tables, any type of furniture, musical instruments, microphones, speakers, guitars, old fashioned projector etc. In particular, they seek a computer for use in the pastor's office. Can you help? Info contact
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Local Authors: Have you or someone in your congregation authored a book? The bookstore at our 2009 Synod Assembly would like to feature such works. Info contact
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Boundary Awareness Seminars: Mary Ellen Durham, LPC, will offer three one-day seminars covering the key issues related to professional and sexual ethics. The events take place in Tyler (Feb. 19), Waco (April 2), and Abilene (May 7).
Thank you! We collected 296 cell phones at our Tri-Synodical Theological Leadership Conference. Our offering, to be divided between Lutheran Disaster Relief - Gulf Coast and the ELCA Fund for Leaders, was $2909.
A Lenten Retreat, God's Promise of Peace, features the Rev. Dr. Gary Wilkerson. The retreat will focus on the experience of healing peace through meditations, music, prayer and discussion. This Lenten Retreat takes place at Calvary Lutheran Church, Richland Hills, Feb. 20-21.
Lenten Study Resource: Holy Lent, Holy Land, Holy People is a free, downloadable study guide for Lent which focuses on the Sermon on the Mount. It is available to you from the SWT Synod Peace Not Walls Task Force.
Lutheran Social Services is opening an office in Fort Worth at 5608 Malvey Ave., Suite 109. The offices will be formally dedicated at 3 p.m. on March 5. Info contact 817.731.3737.
Aggregated Purchase of Electricity: For the time being the congregations expressing interest in purchasing energy as a group do not collectively meet the minimum threshold for such a purchase. We will review this again in the future. Info contact
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Bishop Mark S. Hanson will be the featured speaker at the 125th anniversary celebration of St. Martin's Lutheran Church in Austin, April 25-26. Info contact St. Martin's website.
Wartburg Collegein Waverly, Iowa, has announced a search for a new Dean of the Chapel and campus pastor. Info contact the
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Pastor Steve Quill is leading a trip to the Holy Land, Nov. 3-12, to see the area and to engage the people working for peace and reconciliation. Info contact
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IRS Mileage Rates for 2009: 55 cents for business use; 24 cents for medical and moving purposes; 14 cents for charitable use.
