Prayers for Synod Assembly
We invite your prayers for the 2022 NT-NL Synod Assembly this week, April 29-30, as we gather in person for the first time since 2019. There will be several elections at the assembly including synod treasurer and synod bishop.
“The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced.” Psalm 126:3 (NRSV)
Addiction & Relapse: A New Paradigm for Recovery
Thursday, April 28
11am-12:30pm Central
With fentanyl showing up in every kind of street drug, relapse following treatment is becoming increasingly dangerous. Relapse is widely accepted as the norm following treatment, but does it need to be?https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X5YG3Iy7ROWOMEFQhscFbQ
There are evidence-based practices that work very well to prevent relapse but those practices are not regularly applied in the field. Bill Messinger, retired attorney and recovery coach, will help us understand the state of current relapse-prevention practices and what we can do to improve outcomes. He will help us understand how faith communities could play an important supportive role helping people on their journey back to wholeness. Join us for this FREE webinar and follow-up discussion on this life and death issue. Register here:21st Annual Bonhoeffer Lectures in Public Ethics
Save the Date: May 19-21
The 21st Annual Bonhoeffer Lectures in Public Ethics will be held at Perkins School of Theology | Southern Methodist University and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Dallas, TX. The theme of the Lectures is “Everyday Ethics for Exceptional Times.” Lecturers will draw on Bonhoeffer’s doctrine of the mandates to examine politics, family, church, and culture.https://www.ntnl.org/event/21st-annual-bonhoeffer-lectures-in-public-ethics-everyday-ethics-for-exceptional-times/
Full details can be found here:Featured Resources for April
We are church together, working toward a just world where all are fed.
ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants accompany congregations and their partners throughout the United States and Caribbean as they draw on the strengths of communities to address local issues such as food security, clean water, housing, job readiness, human rights, policy change, leadership development and more. Together, these ministries are part of a comprehensive approach to breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger — for good.
To learn more about ELCA World Hunger and to apply, check out the resources on this page: https://www.elca.org/Our-Work/Relief-and-Development/ELCA-World-Hunger/Get-Involved/Domestic-Hunger-Grants.
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Para obtener información sobre la solicitud en español, contáctenos en hunger@elca.org.
Application Timeline:
- Registration open: March 18, 2022 – May 6, 2022
NOTE: Applicants must be registered in ELCA GrantMaker to access the application. Allow up to three days for registration approval. If you have not registered by May 6, you will not be able to start a new application. If you have already registered in ELCA GrantMaker, you do not need to register again. Starting April 11, 2022, you can log in directly at elca.fluxx.io using the Google Chrome browser to start your application.
- Application open: April 11, 2022 – May 20, 2022
- Application review: June 2022 – October 2022
- Awards recommendations announced: November 2022
Across a context as wide and different as NT-NL, the reality of Covid-19 is very different. As such, NT-NL synod staff are doing more in-person Sunday visits for worship and occasional meetings. However, as good stewards of time and travel dollars, we will be utilizing online meeting formats into our new hybrid future. Given the rise of breakthrough infections and in order to protect those gathered, the synod staff will choose to wear masks as is deemed appropriate unless preaching or presiding and sufficient social distancing can be provided.
Bishop Gronberg:
Apr. 29: Synod Council meeting, Dallas
Apr. 29-30: 2022 NT-NL Synod Assembly, Dallas
May 13-14: Lutheran Men in Mission Board Meeting
May 15: “Getting to Know the MEF” Sunday
May 22: Hope, Springtown 40th Anniversary
Pastor Totzke:
Apr. 29: Synod Council meeting, Dallas
Apr. 29-30: 2022 NT-NL Synod Assembly, Dallas
May 5: Transitional Pastors monthly meeting, Zoom
May 6-11: Vacation
May 15: Our Savior’s (Norse), Clifton
May 21: Candidacy Committee, Briarwood
Pastora Bañales:
Apr. 27: Evangelical Seminary in Mexico, Zoom
Apr. 29: Synod Council meeting, Dallas
Apr. 29-30: 2022 NT-NL Synod Assembly, Dallas
May 1: Adviento, Arlington
May 2: #1 Secondary School of Theological Education Facilitators training
May 3: Ecumenical New Ministry Kin-dom Community
May 4: Leadership workshop, Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Irving
May 5: Ecumenical meeting (Presbyterian, Catholic, United Methodist, Episcopalian, ELCA), then International Chapel Umoja, Fort Worth
May 8: St Paul, Levelland, and Trinity, Clovis
May 9: #2 Secondary School of Theological Education Facilitators training
May 13: Latinx Young Adult Planning team May 14: PLMA teaching May 15: Emmanuel, Granbury May 16: Judicatory Leaders Luncheon, Grace Presbyterian Mission Center, Irving TXMay 16: #3 Secondary School of Theological Education Facilitators training
May 17: Region 4 DEM’s gathering
May 19: NT-NL Renewal Team
May 22: Santa Maria, Irving, and First Sagrada Familia, Garland
May 23: #4 Secondary School of Theological Education Facilitators training
May 24: Conversation Brazilian Evangelical Church
May 26: DEM’s planning team
May 27: ELCA candidacy working group
May 28: First Sagrada Familia, Garland
Upcoming Events
With the ever-changing guidelines and recommendations in our world right now, as we maintain physical distance in social solidarity, please keep in mind these events may be moved online, postponed, or cancelled:
- Apr. 29: Synod Council Meeting, Dallas
- Apr. 29-30: 2022 NT-NL Synod Assembly, Dallas
- May 5: Transitional Pastors monthly meeting, Zoom
- May 14: Parish Lay Ministry Academy, Spring 2022, Course 3, Zoom
- May 14: Public Witness Team meeting, Zoom
- May 15: “Getting to Know the MEF” Sunday
- May 19-21: 21st Annual Bonhoeffer Lectures in Public Ethics: Everyday Ethics for Exceptional Times, Various locations
Access our full online Calendar here. Updates made regularly.
Do you have news or announcements to share? Please submit to Jason (jason@ntnl.org) for consideration for upcoming editions of our weekly news.