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SUMMARY:ELCA Extravaganza 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Extravaganza is the annual gathering of children\, youth\, and family ministry leaders from across the ELCA. It is so much more than a conference: it’s space to be stretched\, it’s worship\, it’s inspiring speakers\, it’s learning from colleagues across the country\, it’s sharing your insights with others\, it’s informative and transformative. The Extravaganza is renewing\, educational\, and connects you with others…then sends you home strengthened for the ministry to which you have been called. \nThe Extravaganza is for the professional and the volunteer. It is for the old and the young. It is for the urban\, the suburban\, and the rural. It is for pastors\, it is for lay people. It is for all adult leaders who share in the adventure we call children\, youth\, and family ministry! \nLocation: Online \n\nFor 2021: \nThe scriptures are full of stories of God’s people holding loosely to their plans and learning to trust in the grace and the mission of God. \nAnd so\, as God’s people\, we are reminded that grace is a gift of God\, and trust follows grace. God calls on God’s people to trust in God’s abundance\, love and promise. Too often\, we try and maintain our own sense of control. But if ministry in 2020 has taught us anything\, it has taught us that we are not in control. The world is a broken\, turbulent place and we cannot navigate these troubled waters by ourselves. \nAnd so\, obediently\, we trust in the work of the Holy Spirit in the midst of turbulent times. And we partner with God\, serving as God’s hands doing God’s work in a world that is in need of hope. \nWe hold loosely\, letting go of our need to control\, creating space for the Spirit to work\, and trusting in God\, who has a vision for the world. \nExtravaganza 2021 will explore God’s call to hold loosely to our own plans\, and our need to control\, and to trust in the one who comes to create\, to redeem and to sustain. God’s call for us to “Hold Loosely” and trust is more important now than ever\, as we live and do ministry in a time of pandemic\, of racial injustice and unrest\, of social division and political turmoil. \nOur conversations at #ext21 will center around five questions: \n\n\nHow do we help those we work with navigate the grief of losing “normal?” How do we navigate that same grief for ourselves?\nHow do we care for ourselves in the midst of accompanying others in their pain?\nHow do we navigate change?\nWhat should we do next?\nHow do we find hope in the midst of chaos?\n\n\nIt is in the words of Ephesians 2:8 that we are reminded that we place our trust in God’s grace\, which provides guidance and direction during these hard days. And that this grace is a gift that we discover when we hold loosely. \n“For by grace you have been saved through faith\, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” – Ephesians 2:8
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/elca-extravaganza-2021/
CATEGORIES:Partner Organizations
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SUMMARY:Synod Council and Deans Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be held online. \nSketch and Outline of Presentation to  \nNTNL Synod Council and Deans  \nLeading into God’s Future Together  \nFebruary 5\, 2021\, 1-4pm \nObjective and Purpose \nProvide tools and resources to help pastoral and synodical leaders initiate conversations in congregations regarding their futures in light of the changing realities that have been brought on by Covid-19 and other circumstances and situations. \nStructure  \nBasic structure will be three one-hour sessions\, each lasting about 50 minutes with a ten-minute break between each session. \nSession 1 – Basic Introductions and Defining our Problem  \n\nBishop welcome and sharing learnings thus far.\nDefining our problem\, where are we “stuck?”\n\nWhat challenges and struggles are congregations/pastors and lay leaders/synodical leaders encountering in the present moment? Where do you see us stuck?\n\n\n\nSession 2 – Helpful theoretical resources that speak to our present moment  \n\nSystems theory\n\nWho is responsible\, reframing\, what is goal?\nWhat leads to “stuckness?”\nLeading through resistance.\nDistinction between empathy and sympathy.\n\n\nNarrative theory and future story\n\nWe all\, individuals and congregations\, have a narrative.\nIntroduce idea of a future story.\nFunctional vs. dysfunctional stories\n\n\nGrounding in reality\, so we can make clear and realistic decisions about how to live into the future\, even if that future is unknown.\n\nSession 3 – Practical Application: Leading into the new\, being prophetic and pastoral  \n\nInteractive exercises and sharing. Relating to real life situations.\nBuilding resilience and ability to lead through resistance and into change.\n\nResources to be Applied  \nAndy Lester’s book\, Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling (concept of Future Story)  \nEd Friedmann: Failure of Nerve\, and Friedman’s Fables; Wayne Menking: When All Else Fails; Rethinking our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck. (Systems theory\, change and resistance) 
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-council-and-deans-meeting-feb-2021/
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod
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SUMMARY:Synod Council and MEF Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be held online.
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-council-and-mef-meeting-feb-2021/
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod
ORGANIZER;CN="NT-NL Synod%2C ELCA":MAILTO:office@ntnl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T143000
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SUMMARY:Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Keynote with Dr. Linda. A. Hill \nClick here to join the webinar!\nPassword: ELCA \nTo join via phone\, call: (312) 626-6799  |  Webinar ID: 879 3348 5378  |  Passcode: 788569 \nWhat does it take to build organizations that can innovate again and again? \nThe short answer: the right leadership. Utilizing findings outlined in her book “Collective Genius\,” Professor Hill\nwill discuss how leaders at such companies as Google\, HCL and Pixar developed the key capabilities to get\ninnovation done. \nThis session reveals how these organizations go about developing a context where people are willing and able\nto do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. They build communities with a shared purpose\nand a consistent set of values and rules of engagement that allow individual slices of genius to be leveraged\ninto collective genius. This speech also offers insight into what organizations can do to develop leaders with\nthe right mindset and talents. \nAbout Dr. Linda A. Hill \nLinda Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School\n(HBS (and chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative. Dr. Hill is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on\nleadership. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and\nreceived the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. In addition to presenting insights from her research\ncaptured in the book Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation\, Dr. Hill will also discuss the\nleadership imperative for innovation today published in her book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for\nBecoming a Great Leader. \nDr. Hill is co-founder of Paradox Strategies — a leadership and consulting firm that advises organizations and\nboards on innovation\, leadership and diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. She is a current and past Board member\nof multiple publicly traded companies and sits on numerous boards of non-profit institutions globally\, including\nthe Board of Trustees of the Aspen Forum for the Future of Higher Education\, the United Nations Institute for\nTraining and Research\, The Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund USA. Hill is also a\nmember of the HR People + Strategy Advisory Council.
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/collective-genius-the-art-and-practice-of-leading-innovation/
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod,Partner Organizations
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SUMMARY:Re-imagining Using Church Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Join the NT-NL Synod\, Briarwood Leadership Center\, and Foundry Commercial for a FREE webinar for congregational leaders to learn best practices around utilizing church space to create opportunity for ministry. Open to all. \nRegistration required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdOyqqT0sE938YThBTLnMwXypW-OauJBz. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nThis webinar will not be a promotional presentation but will walk through case studies\, focusing on re-imagining church space and all the different ways to think about how real estate can assist in church use\, and there will be time for questions and answers. \nLearn more here:
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/re-imagining-using-church-spaces/
CATEGORIES:Briarwood Leadership Center,NT-NL Synod
ORGANIZER;CN="NT-NL Synod%2C ELCA":MAILTO:office@ntnl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T113000
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SUMMARY:Synod Devotions for Lent
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays in Lent 2021 \nSynod Online Devotions\, 11-11:20am (Central) via Zoom broadcast to Facebook \nA time for leaders to take a moment to center ourselves in this Holy Season. \nWe will begin with a litany\, special music\, then read the gospel for the coming Sunday and have a short reflection. \nWe will close with prayer (prayer requests taken in the chat). \nBishop Gronberg will lead the liturgy; NT-NL first call pastors will bring the reflection. \nJoin us live on Zoom (link below) or watch on Facebook. \n\nFeb 23: Mark 8:31-38  Rev. Nick Schmidlin  (Faith\, Flower Mound) \nMarch 2: John 2:13-22  Rev. Kelsey Fitting-Snyder (St. Matthew\, Waco) \nMarch 9: John 3:14-21 Rev. Eric Saed (Trinity\, Clovis\, NM) \nMarch 16: John 12:20-33  Rev. Kathryn Saunders-Allen (Good Shepherd\, Irving) \nMarch 23: Mark 11:1-11  Rev. Tom Schwolert (Gloria Dei\, Garland) \n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/94553977437?pwd=ek5kUVNad3dIMHd6OWp0ZTZmQzZjUT09 \nMeeting ID: 945 5397 7437\nPasscode: 428877 \nOne tap mobile\n+12532158782\,\,94553977437#\,\,\,\,*428877# US (Tacoma)\n+13462487799\,\,94553977437#\,\,\,\,*428877# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 945 5397 7437\nPasscode: 428877
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-devotions-for-lent/2021-02-23/
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SUMMARY:Lenten Journey: Landscapes of Our Soul
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays in Lent\, 7pm Central \nFebruary 24 – March 24 \nWith Biblical and landscape artist Sara Novenson\, and spiritual director and pastor\, the Rev. Linda Anderson-Little\, we will use Sara’s nature paintings as a visual tool for prayer (visio divina) and the Psalms for reflection and renewal. Art helps open up the creative side of our heart where prayer and faith reside\, as we experience our inner spiritual landscape and explore deeper ways of connecting with God. FREE and OPEN TO ALL through a Mission Endowment Fund (MEF) Grant of the NT-NL Synod. Register here\, and the Zoom Link and Passcode will be emailed to you.
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/lenten-journey-landscapes-of-our-soul/2021-02-24/
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod
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