Northern Texas - Northern Louisiana Synod, ELCA

Addiction & Faith Conference
2018-09-28 - 2018-09-30 | TX
For Congregations, Clergy, & Care Givers
September 28-30
Bloomington, MN
​Addiction in every form, including the current opioid problem, is ravaging our world. ​
​How will we, as people of faith, respond?

Click here for full details and to register.
Open to anyone interested in exploring the devastation of addiction and the remarkable healing process of faith. Together, we’ll enhance our knowledge about addiction recovery, share stories of learning and hope, and celebrate our faith in God’s abiding grace. Featuring:

Internationally-known keynote speakers
Interactive workshops and breakout sessions

CEU’s available for nurses and health care professionals
You’re Invited to Join Us!
From the world of church: clergy, synod staff, deacons and deaconesses, parish nurses, youth leaders, addiction awareness teams, congregants, and the community of people in recovery.
From the world of addiction treatment: treatment center staff, healthcare professionals.
Throughout the Addiction and Faith Conference:

12-Step Meetings
Recovery Yoga Meditation Room (always open!)
Conscious Contact (11th Step Meeting with drumming!)
Therapeutic Massage (fee, sign up to save your space!)
Spiritual Direction (free, sign up to save your space!)
Music
Prayer
Worship

2018 First Call Retreat
2018-09-24 - 2018-09-26 | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States
It’s time yet again for our annual First Call Retreat. This year, it will be held at Briarwood Retreat Center from Monday, September 24, to Wednesday, September 26. Our theme this year is about tending to your own spiritual care and sharing best practices with each other.
There will be:
* Fellowship & free time
* Bible study, worship, and devotional elements
* time with some spiritual directors to learn about the practice
* opportunities for you to share with each other about your own best practices.
* text study group time to prepare for the upcoming Sunday (if you desire)
What we need to know from y’all is, are there spiritual/relaxation practices you do that you would be willing to share/teach/guide during our Tuesday afternoon session? If so, please let us know on your registration form. That will be helpful as we continue to develop the plans and schedule. We’re open to ideas of all kinds.
The $145 cost includes:
* two nights lodging (double rooms with two full beds – sorry, single rooms are not an option due to space & numbers)
* breakfast & dinner for both days
* lunch on Tuesday (lunch Monday & Wednesday are on your own, but there are plenty of options within a few miles of Briarwood)
Two of the Tuesday afternoon free time options do involve an additional cost of $25, so if you choose to participate in archery or the zip line/ropes activity at Briarwood, please indicate that when you register, and that cost will be added to your registration.
We realize that for some of you this registration cost may exceed your budget. If it is a hardship for you, please let us know. We also know that some of you have generous continuing education budgets that may allow you to contribute to help underwrite the cost for those who need some financial assistance. If that is the case, there is an option to do that as well with your registration.
We look forward to our time together in September!
REGISTER HERE.

The Church of the Damascus Road Golf Outing and Fund Raiser
2018-09-24 | The Golf Club Fossil Creek, 3401 Clubgate Dr, Fort Worth, TX, 76137, United States
The Church of the Damascus Road is a ministry that assists those people that are imprisoned as well as those that are out and trying to start over. This Ministry is in the need of funds to continue to provide services to the members of the church and to grow the ministry to help those struggling. We hope that you will join us in a day of golf and support of the important work being done!
Click here to access a flyer with all the details and to register / become a sponsor.

MEF Board meeting
2018-09-22 | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States

Middle School Retreat
2018-09-21 - 2018-09-23 | Briarwood Leadership Center, 670 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States
The Middle School Retreat will be using the “This Changes Everything” theme. The weekend is for 6th-8th grades and begins on September 21st 7:00 PM and ends September 23rd 11:00 AM.

Synod Council Meeting
2018-09-20 - 2018-09-22 | Christ Evangelical Lutheran Mission Center at Briarwood, 680 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States
Thursday, September 20: Synod Council New Member Orientation
Friday, September 21 – Saturday, September 22: Synod Council Retreat and Meetings

Boundary Training: Healthy Relationships in Ministry
2018-09-17 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | TX
Brite Divinity School will offer Boundary Training: Healthy Relationships in Ministry on September 17 from 9:00 to 4:00. This training will cover such things as: discerning the importance of healthy boundaries for building community; identifying behavior in self and others that can potentially compromise healthy relationships; developing professional ethics that sustain ministry; examining the dynamics in communities where clergy misconduct has occurred; and creating strategies for maintaining healthy relationships with self, others, and God. This workshop is intended to meet boundary training criteria for ministerial standing.
A certificate will be given at the end of the workshop for six contact hours of continuing education in boundary training. (Please submit your certificate to jeanne@ntnl.org to add to your Rostered Minister file in our database.)
The workshop will be led by Rev. Dr. Joretta Marshall, Executive Vice President and Dean and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care, and Rev. Dr. Timothy Robinson, Alberta H. and Harold L. Lunger Associate Professor of Spiritual Disciplines and Resources, at Brite.
Registration is $20 for the day and does not include lunch. For more information, call 817.257.7582 or email e.theilig@tcu.edu.
Location: University Christian Church, Fort Worth, TX

Public Hearing: Women & Justice ELCA Draft
2018-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Christ the King – Haltom City, 4200 Denton Hwy, Haltom City, TX, 76117, United States
Join us in the Fellowship Hall to discuss this important document: Draft Social Statement on Women and Justice.

Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Fall 2018, Course 1
2018-09-15 09:00 - 15:30 | Christ Evangelical Lutheran Mission Center at Briarwood, 680 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States

"God's work. Our hands." Sunday
2018-09-09 | TX
Many of you are already making plans for “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday on Sept. 9. New resources are now available to help you organize and prepare.
You will find the resources you need to plan your activities and worship, invite your neighbors and promote within your community. There are videos to watch and share for inspiration. New this year are Spanish-language postcards, door hangers and social memes.
You also can order yellow “God’s work. Our hands.” T-shirts. We realize that many congregations wear their T-shirts throughout the year and do various service projects in addition to the designated day of service. Thank you for bringing Christ’s love to your communities.
Let us know about your plans for Sept. 9 by answering a couple quick questions in our survey. This will allow us to learn more about your vital congregation and its mission in your community. If your congregation cannot participate on Sept. 9, please consider another time. Either way, we look forward to hearing from you.
“God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday celebrates the work you do every day, serving communities in ways that share the love of God with all people. We look forward to doing this work together again this year.
God’s peace,

Christina Jackson-Skelton
Executive Director, Mission Advancement
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

With “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday approaching, the Life of Faith Initiative offers a new document to expand “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday from being a single day of service to a way to equip our people for a life of faith so that “every act of service, in every daily calling, in every corner of life flows freely from a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.”

The Bolder Board Training
2018-09-07 08:30 - 16:00 | TX
This training is being hosted by our partners at United Way of Tarrant County.
This is not your average board training.
The Bolder Board Training helps nonprofit boards awaken, articulate, and pursue their most magnificent dreams. It teaches boards how to work with their leaders to create audacious possibilities for impact. It is the first board training designed specifically to offer boards a pragmatic and conscientious alternative to the culture of financial deprivation and constriction that they often find themselves upholding. It is not a traditional training on governance and finance. It is an immersion in possibility and aspiration that positively and radically disrupts traditional ways of thinking. The Training takes place over the course of approximately seven hours. It is part lecture, part workshop. It is designed specifically for boards. Organizations are encouraged to bring as many of their board members as possible. The Training can also serve as a powerful first day to a board retreat.
I’mpossible.
The training liberates natural leadership instincts from the constraints of our cultural mindset about charity. It helps boards become conscious of persistent, limiting assumptions. It is based on the idea that we are at our best, most fully alive, and most impactful when we are challenging assumptions of impossibility – often that we didn’t even know we had.
Click here to learn more.
Register your interest in a North Texas training on Friday, September 7.
The training is led by Dan Pallotta.
Dan invented the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDSRides, Breast Cancer 3-Days, and Out of the Darkness suicide prevention events, which raised over half a billion dollars in nine years and were the subject of one of the first Harvard Business School case studies on social enterprise. His 2013 TED talk on philanthropy has been viewed more than 4.3 million times and is one of the 100 most-viewed TED talks of all time. His book, “Uncharitable,” is the best-selling title in the history of Tufts University Press. The Stanford Social Innovation Review said that it “deserves to become the nonprofit sector’s new manifesto.” He is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review online. He is widely credited with changing the national conversation about impact and overhead in charity in America.

From a recent email from Dan:
Hi Everyone,
I was in Australia week before last to give three speeches and lead the Bolder Board Training in Brisbane, which was wonderful. We now have 100 new Australian alumni to connect with!
Since the trip I cannot get the Sydney Opera House out of my mind. The reason I cannot, after having seen it, is because the idea to build it was ridiculous. The architect who designed it — Jørn Utzon — was an unknown 38 year-old Dane when his entry was announced as the winner in an international competition. His vision for a “sculptural, curved building on the Harbour” broke radically with the linear shapes of modernist architecture. And here’s the thing: in the 1960s, they had no idea how to build it. You know those iconic shells or sails that define it? The challenge of how to build them confounded the engineers working on it for years, even after the foundation had been poured! Imagine pouring a foundation for a building you don’t yet know how to build!
You remember how, in the Training, we talked about commitment and declaring a possibility? Pouring that foundation, without knowing how to build the building, was a commitment – a declaration of possibility. It was impossible, but their commitment to it transformed it into reality. It now not only defines that city, but in many ways that nation.
Imagine if it had never been built. Imagine if some expert put a stop to it because of its ridiculousness.
If you’re not being ridiculous, you’re not exploring your organization’s true potential. Everything in the world that makes us go “Wow,” was born of some absurd human being with a ridiculous, impossible idea — from the Eiffel Tower to landing on the moon to the idea of America herself. We are taught that prudence is sophistication. The opposite is true. The most sophisticated things I’ve ever seen in my life – the most intelligent solutions to the greatest technical challenges in history — all came from someone being ridiculous. Ridiculous is what really tests us. Stretches us. Forces us to use the full measures of our intelligence, creativity, fortitude and strength.
Anything less and our true potential for intelligence, creativity, strength and fortitude gets left on the table, never to see the light of day.
Resist the temptation to be safe, cautious and normal. Resist it in all things. Resist it with every fiber of your being. Lives are at stake in our work. Be ridiculous on their behalf.
Dan

Bishop Installation for the Southwestern Texas Synod
2018-09-01 | TX
The Southwestern Texas Synod
announces the installation of
The Rev. Susan J. Briner
called to serve as
Bishop
Installation to be held at
University United Methodist Church
5084 De Zavala Rd, San Antonio, Texas
Saturday, September 1, 2018
at 2:00 p.m.
by
Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
Rostered persons & Synodically authorized ministers
are invited to vest and be a part of the service.
Color of the day is red.
Reception following the Installation.
All are welcome!
You may send an acknowledgment to her email: sbriner@swtsynod.org
Click here for the news release about her election.
Click here for a flyer of this installation announcement.

"Undoing Racism" Training
2018-08-28 - 2018-08-30 | Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church, 715 E. Lamar Blvd., Arlington, TX, 76011, United States
(Limited to the first 20 registrants.)
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNDOING RACISM TRAINING

The two and one-half day “Undoing Racism” workshop presented by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond will be offered Tuesday, August 28, through Thursday, August 30. Sessions for the first two days begin at 9:00 a.m. and end late afternoon. The Thursday session begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at noon. The workshop is worth approximately 16 hours of continuing education units.
The Public Witness team is making this opportunity available free of charge to those in our churches who would like to attend but find the $350.00 tuition prohibitive. The team asks those who have adequate resources to make a contribution with the possibility of not only paying for oneself but also helping to defray the costs for someone else.
STRUCTURE AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES OF THE UNDOING RACISM WORKSHOP
Undoing Racism® is the signature workshop of the Peoples’ Institute for Survival and Beyond. Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning, and presentations, this intensive process challenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice. The multiracial team of organizers/trainers includes more than 100 men and women whose anti-racist organizing expertise includes years with civil, labor and welfare rights struggles, educational, foster care, social service, and health reform movements, as well as youth and grassroots community organizing. An average of 30 groups per month participate in The People’s Institute Undoing Racism®/Community Organizing process.
Workshop participants will:
• Develop a common definition of racism and an understanding of its different forms: individual, institutional, linguistic, and cultural;
• Develop a common language and analysis for examining racism in the United States;
• Understand one’s own connection to institutional racism and its impact on his/her work;
• Understand why people are poor and the role of institutions in exacerbating institutional racism, particularly for people and communities of color;
• Understand the historical context for how racial classifications in the United States came to be and how and why they are maintained;
• Understand the historical context for how U.S. institutions came to be and who they have been designed to serve;
• Understand how all of us, including white people, are adversely impacted by racism every day, everywhere;
• Address surface assumptions about how your work is (or is not) affected by racism;
• Develop awareness and understanding about ways to begin Undoing Racism®
• Gain knowledge about how to be more effective in the work you do with your constituencies, your organizations, your communities, your families;
• Understand the role of community organizing and building effective multiracial coalitions as a means for Undoing Racism®.
Click here to download a flyer.
Questions may be directed to chuck.hubbard@yahoo.com.
(Limited to the first 20 registrants.)

Meet & Greet with The Rev. Carrie Ballenger Smith, ELCA Missionary to Jerusalem
2018-08-18 14:00 - 16:00 | King of Glory Lutheran Church – Dallas, 6411 LBJ Freeway ·, Dallas, TX, 75240, United States
Join Bishop Erik Gronberg and King of Glory, Dallas, as we host our ELCA Missionary to Jerusalem for a short presentation, Q & A, and meet & greet.

The Rev. Carrie Ballenger Smith serves as pastor of the English-speaking congregation at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem’s Old City. She also serves as special assistant to
Bishop Ibrahim Azar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL).
Learn more about Pastor Smith and her ministry in Jerusalem in these Living Lutheran articles: A new pastor in Jerusalem (2014) and Joy to the world: Christmas with ELCA missionaries (2017).
Follow Pastor Smith’s blog.
Follow Pastor Smith’s facebook page.

WELCA 2018 Annual Women's & Girl's Retreat
2018-08-11 09:30 - 14:00 | Our Redeemer Lutheran – Grand Prairie, 4729 S. Carrier Pkwy, Grand Prairie, TX, 75052, United States
Annual Women’s/Girl’s Retreat
Theme: Breathing Prayer
Leaders: Pastors Vicki Taylor and Suzanne Guinn
Breakfast treats/Lunch Provided
Hosted by the Women of the ELCA of Lord of Life, Glenn Heights, and Our Redeemer, Grand Prairie
Click here for an informational flyer.
RSVP to hattie.hammer@sbcglobal.net or 972-637-3191.

Join the ALCM for Worship
2018-07-19 - 2018-07-20 | Calvary Lutheran Church – Richland Hills, 7620 Baker Blvd, Richland Hills, TX, 76118, United States
Join the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) for the worship services during their conference. Open to all!
Thursday, July 19
12:15 pm Opening Eucharist
6:00 pm Hymn Festival, Vespers, Compline
Friday, July 20
9:00 am Matins
3:30 pm Closing Eucharist

Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) Regional Conference
2018-07-19 - 2018-07-20 | Calvary Lutheran Church – Richland Hills, 7620 Baker Blvd, Richland Hills, TX, 76118, United States
Thursday – Friday, July 19-20, 2018
For church musicians in congregations of all sizes
Click here to access online registration with full details.
Click here to access a brochure (PDF) with full details and manual registration options.
Questions?
Viktor Andersson, Director of Worship & Music
viktorandersson@hotmail.com
Calvary Lutheran Church (817-284-8724 ext. 27)

2018 ELCA Youth Gathering
2018-06-27 - 2018-07-01 | TX
PRAY FOR OUR YOUTH DURING THIS LIFE-CHANGING EVENT.
Every three years, 30,000 high school youth and their adult leaders from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) gather for a week of faith formation known as the Gathering. Through days spent in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service, and fellowship, young people grow in faith and are challenged and inspired to live their faith in their daily lives.
An important part of the Gathering’s ministry are the two pre-events, the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event (MYLE), a faith formation and leadership development event primarily for youth of color, and the tAble, an ELCA gathering of youth with disabilities.
Click here for a flyer with more details, important dates, etc.
Contact Information for NT-NL Gathering Team:

Gathering Synod Coordinator is Janelle Miller (janellemiller@yahoo.com) 817-726-7031
Synod Day Coordinator is Christian Marbach (c.marbach@faithce.com) 254-421-8450

the tAble: an ELCA gathering of youth with disabilities
2018-06-24 - 2018-06-27 | TX
The tAble (formerly the Definitely-abled Youth Leadership Event or DAYLE) is a pre-event to the ELCA Youth Gathering that is designed to bless and empower young people who live with a wide range of physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities, so that they might grow as faithful, wise and courageous witnesses. The event also gives participants the opportunity to acclimate and orient themselves to the city of Houston and the venues in which the Gathering are being held.
The tAble is open to youth who are ages 14-18 or engaged in high school youth group or enrolled in high school or the vocational education equivalent. Youth who attend the tAble must be accompanied by an adult companion.
The tAble will be held June 24 – 27, 2018. The cost for the tAble is $190 per person and includes all housing, program and some food expenses during the tAble.

The ELCA Multicultural Youth Leadership Event
2018-06-24 - 2018-06-27 | TX
The Multicultural Youth Leadership Event is a pre-event to the Gathering and exists to empower young people of color and those whose primary language is other than English to claim their story as a part of God’s story; in order to move toward healing and wholeness as transformational leaders in the church and in the world.
MYLE’s core values include:
Culture is explored. Participants will experience an inclusive community that seeks to build understanding and appreciation of the various cultures and ethnicities that are a part of this church.
Leaders are formed. Youth and adults will learn about the issues in their communities and how to effect change.
Identity is claimed. Participants will be encouraged to uncover their story and live out their God-given calling in the world.
Faith is deepened. Youth and adults will explore the intersection of faith and life and how our faith calls us to act justly in the world.
Friends are made. Participants will connect with peers who are looking to build relationships and have a good time.
MYLE 2018 will be held June 24 – 27, 2018. The cost for MYLE is $190 per person and includes all housing, program and some food expenses during MYLE. To learn more about previous MYLEs, follow them on Facebook.

Walk Gently on Earth: A Multi-Faith invitation to Sustainable Lifestyles
2018-06-10 13:30 - 15:00 | TX
Sunday, June 10, 1:30 p.m.
Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church (Houston, TX) and ONLINE
Last fall, world religious leaders presented the interfaith climate declaration, Walk Gently on Earth, to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Bonn. The Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston invites you to a talk about the declaration by Imaad Khan, of the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy (TICPP), who was there.
Imaad will discuss the presentation of the declaration, its message, and how houses of worship and their members can leverage this initiative. Walk Gently on Earth invites people of faith to lead the world in adopting a sustainable lifestyle. The focus for 2018 is in transforming three areas of our lives: energy use, food consumption, and travel. This talk takes place at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church in Houston and online via a simultaneous web meeting.
Please register for this FREE event. Texas Interfaith Power and Light, the environmental program of TICPP, has joined this initiative. For more information on the Walk Gently on Earth initiative, see their site at: http://www.txipl.org/content/walk-gently-earth. For more information about this talk, please contact Lisa Brenskelle at gcs.lrc@gmail.com.

Building Congregational Capacity for Hispanic Ministry
2018-06-10 - 2018-06-15 | Seminary of the Southwest, 501 E. 32nd St., Austin, TX, 78705, United States
This new Level II Intensive is designed for congregational leaders in those congregations where consideration is being given to starting Hispanic Ministry in their community. Teams from congregations are encouraged to attend. During this week, teams will learn:

To increase capacity for doing Hispanic ministry
To learn several models for engaging in Hispanic ministry in congregational settings
To improve facility in Spanish language, especially liturgical Spanish
To build a cohort of colleagues preparing for Hispanic ministry within their community
To avoid cultural violence in mission development.

The main presenter is Rev. Rubén Durán with several outstanding guest-sharing models for Hispanic Ministry. The Rev. Durán serves as Director for New Congregations in the Congregational and Synodical Mission unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is responsible for promoting the development of Synodical mission strategies, local initiatives and emerging models for the multiplication of new communities of faith in the USA and the Caribbean. He will be joined by our very own Director for Evangelical Mission, The Rev. Irma Bañales.
You need not have completed the Spanish Language and Hispanic Ministry Language Intensive.
WHERE? On the campus of the Seminary of the Southwest, 501 E. 32nd St., Austin, TX 78705. See ssw.edu for map.
WHEN? Beginning Sunday evening, June 10, 2018, at 5 p.m. and ending Friday, June 15, 2018, at noon.
HOW? Register online. Contact Consuelo E. Reid at lsps@lsps.edu with questions.
Click here for a webpage with full details.
Click here for a flyer with full details.

Spanish Language and Hispanic Ministry Intensive
2018-05-27 - 2018-06-01 | Seminary of the Southwest, 501 E. 32nd St., Austin, TX, 78705, United States
The Summer Language and Hispanic Ministry Intensive is a resource for Lutherans and those of other denominations who recognize the growing need for competency in the Spanish language and an understanding of Hispanic culture in light of the increasing Hispanic population in this country and in the church. The course focuses on study of the Spanish language and Hispanic culture.
Level 1 Intensive
WHERE? On the campus of the Seminary of the Southwest, 501 E. 32nd St., Austin, TX 78705. See ssw.edu for map.
WHEN? Beginning Sunday evening, May 27, 2018, at 5 p.m. and ending Friday, June 1, 2018, at noon.
HOW? Register online at MyWTS. Contact Consuelo E. Reid at lsps@lsps.edu with questions.
Click here for a webpage with full details.
Click here for a flyer with full details.

Transforming Loss: Finding Potential for Growth
2018-05-24 07:30 - 10:00 | Good Samaritan Society – Denton Village, 2500 Hinkle Dr, Denton, TX, 76201, United States
Denton Area Partnership for End-of-Life Care
Presents the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA)
25th Annual ‘Living with Grief’ Program
Join us for an inspirational program about positive change and action by the bereaved in the aftermath of loss. This program is 95 minutes in length, with additional 30-minute post-program discussion required for CEs.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
7:30 AM – Registration
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM – DVD program
9:30 – 10:00 am – Panel Discussion with local experts
Location: Good Samaritan Society – Denton Village, 2500 Hinkle Dr, Denton, TX 76201 | Please enter through the Administration entrance.
Cost: $15 | Snacks and refreshments will be available.
2 CEs for Nurses, Chaplains, Clergy, Social Workers, Funeral Directors, trauma counselors, hospice workers, emergency room staff, bereavement staff, police, firefighters, school staff through HFA
Click here for the registration form with full details.
Questions? E-mail DAPEC@AOL.com or call/text Ginny Hudson at 940-367-0598.

2018 Lutheran Campus Ministry Golf Outing
2018-05-20 | TX, United States
The Trails of Frisco Golf Club
10411 Teel Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034
1:00pm Shotgun Start
$90 per player
Come join us for an afternoon of fun, benefiting Lutheran Campus Ministry at Denton, serving students at the University of North Texas and Texas Women’s University.
Enjoy:

Green fee and cart
Range balls
Buffet dinner
Replay certificate at the Trails
2 Mulligans per player
1 Raffle ticket per player
Hole 10 par 5 (150 out)
Awards
Prizes

Entry Deadline and full payment due on or before May 13, 2018. Make checks payable to LCM Denton. Write “golf” on memo line.
Questions or comments should be directed to Mike Minard (940-783-8529 | michaelminardlt@gmail.com) or Dave Grieser (214-437-9591 | davegrieser@yahoo.com).
Return your registration form with payment in person to Mike or Dave, or mail to:
Mike Minard
2625 Calmwater Dr
Little Elm, TX 75068
Raffle prizes include a Calloway XR driver, other quality golf accessories, gift baskets, gift certificates to great restaurants, and other terrific items.
Don’t play golf? Provide a hole sign with your personal or business message for $100. You will get the sign to keep.
Click here to download the tri-fold brochure to register.
Support this vital ELCA outreach to young adults on campus. For more information about campus ministry, contact Pastor Celene Welch (817-269-1229 | pastor@lcmdenton.org).

The Vigil of Pentecost
2018-05-19 14:00 - 17:00 | St. John’s Lutheran Church – Dallas, 2939 Sunnyvale St, Dallas, TX, 75216, United States
Bethany Lutheran Church, Community of Hope Lutheran Church, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, and St. John’s Lutheran Church
Invite you to
The Vigil of Pentecost
Bishop Erik Gronberg, NT-NL Synod, ELCA, Preaching
Saturday, May 19, 2018
2:00 pm Gathering, Music and Fellowship
3:00 pm Worship Service with Meal following
at
St. John’s Lutheran Church, 2939 Sunnyvale Street, Dallas, TX 75216
Come for Worship, Singing, Drumming, Fellowship
Click here to download a flyer with full details.
Questions – Pastor Doris Dupree Harris 214.649.8601

Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Spring 2018, Course 3
2018-05-19 09:00 - 15:30 | Christ Evangelical Lutheran Mission Center at Briarwood, 680 Copper Canyon Rd., Argyle, TX, 76226, United States

NT-NL Eastern Conference W-ELCA 2018 Spring Gathering
2018-05-19 | St. Stephen Lutheran Church, 8400 Kingston Rd, Shreveport, LA, 71108, United States
Save the Date!

MEF Board meeting
2018-05-19 | Our Redeemer Lutheran – Grand Prairie, 4729 S. Carrier Pkwy, Grand Prairie, TX, 75052, United States

Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber: "Stop saying the church is dying!"
2018-05-15 19:00 - 20:00 | TX
“The church is dying!” It’s a phrase we hear within and outside of the church all too often. Average worship attendance keeps going down. The average age of regular church attendeees keeps going up. Professions of faith are far and few between. And yet, in the midst of what seems like terrible news, God keeps showing up. New faith communities and creative ways of being church keep forming. People who feel lost, unwanted, or leftout keep being found.
Stop saying the church is dying!
Join Nadia Bolz-Weber for this one-night only event, as she brings to light some of the beautiful and creative ways in which the church is not only alive, but thriving.
Hosted by our friends at Arborlawn UMC, 5001 Briarhaven Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76109.
Doors open at 6pm. Event: 7-8pm.
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER is the author of two New York Times bestselling memoirs: Pastrix; The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint (2013) and Accidental Saints; Finding God in All the Wrong People (2015). She is an ordained Lutheran pastor (ELCA) and still works as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. Nadia travels domestically and internationally as a speaker and has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, On Being with Krista Tippett, Fresh Air, CNN and in the Washington Post, Bitch magazine, The Daily Beast, More magazine and The Atlantic. International media coverage includes BBC World Service and The Guardian and magazine features in Germany, Poland, and Switzerland. Nadia lives in Denver with her family and her Great Dane, Zacchaeus.
Full event details here: https://arborlawnumc.org/events/nadia
Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nadia-bolz-weber-tickets-42770712352
