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Panhandle Conference

September 30, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Our conference pastors meet regularly in all seven of our conferences. But only two have regular meetings of both clergy and lay members. One is the Latino conference that has no geographical boundaries. The other is the Panhandle conference, which has extremely wide-spread geography. It took me a while, but I finally made it to…

Panhandle Conference

Sep 30, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog

Our conference pastors meet regularly in all seven of our conferences. But only two have regular meetings of both clergy and lay members. One is ...

First Call Accompaniment

September 30, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

First Call Accompaniment

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Every September, the three Texas synods share a retreat for first call rostered leaders. While the ELCA calls this First Call Theological Education, we call ...

Mount Olive: 70 years of Dallas history

September 30, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Mount Olive: 70 years of Dallas history

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I’ve been getting to know the congregation at Mount Olive well recently, since Pr. Deb Loudin McCann retired in May. We’ve been pondering together about ...

COW country road trip

September 16, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

COW country road trip

Sep 16, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog

This weekend took me on a road trip further into our Conference Out West. After spending most of Saturday in Abilene, I drove on to ...

Leslie’s Ordination

September 15, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Leslie’s Ordination

Sep 15, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog

Leslie was one of the first people I remember meeting at the first convocation I attended in NT-NL. She was serving as a Synodically Authorized ...

Rainy Waco

September 9, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Rainy Waco

Sep 9, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog

This morning my travels took me to St. Matthew Lutheran in Waco for worship. Pr. Paul Krupicka retired at the end of August, so as ...

Ordination Weekend Intermission

August 26, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Ordination Weekend Intermission

Aug 26, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog

Thought I’d add a quick post on my Sunday morning between the ordinations. This morning I joined the congregation at King of Glory in Fort ...

Ordination Weekend Part 2

August 26, 2018 | Pastor Totzke’s Blog By The Rev. Kris Totzke

Ordination Weekend Part 2

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This weekend of celebration continued today with the ordination of Miles Holder. Miles has been called to serve at New Hope Lutheran in Keller. The ...