Synod Assembly Registration & Hotel Deadlines
Registration for Assembly AND the hotel room block (at the guaranteed reduced rate) both close on Sunday, April 16, at 11:59pm Central. We highly recommend registering by the morning of Friday, April 14, so that if you need any support from synod staff with that process, there is time for us to respond. Friendly reminder: There will be NO on-site registration this year.
Additional updates have been made to the event page for our 2023 Assembly: https://www.ntnl.org/event/2023-nt-nl-synod-assembly/. This is also where you can find the link to our Assembly Reference Materials, which include the tentative agenda. Please note we will continue to make updates to both webpages, likely up to the week of Assembly as additional details are confirmed, reports are received, and more.
Codex Sassoon on Display at SMU
SMU’s Bridwell Library and Sotheby’s invite you to view the Codex Sassoon in person:
April 18-20
Entry to the Codex Sassoon exhibit is FREE, but a ticket with a reserved time is REQUIRED.
The rare 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible will be exhibited in the United States for the first time at SMU’s Bridwell Library, the only university on the Codex Sassoon’s five-city international tour before it comes up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York in May.
The Bible, known as the Codex Sassoon, is named for its 1929 purchaser, David Solomon Sassoon, a renowned collector who assembled the most significant private collection of Judaica and Hebraica manuscripts in the world. The nearly 800-page Bible was carefully lettered by a master scribe in Hebrew on parchment. It includes 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, the earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible extant in the world.
Full details about the SMU exhibit can be found at the registration link.
For more information on the Codex Sassoon, please visit Sotheby’s online.
You can find the SMU press release here: World’s earliest most complete Hebrew Bible coming to SMU: Codex Sassoon will be displayed April 18-20 at SMU’s Bridwell Library.
Featured Resources for April
Climate Action for Tired People: A Toolkit and Quiz for Parents and Others
Do you want to “do something about climate change” but not know where to start, or where the time and energy to start would come from?
Shannon Brescher Shea and Kate Schapira wrote this because you’re tired, busy, stressed, lonely, distracted, ashamed and/or overwhelmed. Between us, we know what it’s like to face the morning with a newborn in the house who won’t sleep, juggle school and homework and chores and a job, stare around at a messy room or house that you don’t have it in you to clean, and worry late into the night about your future and how you’ll live.
We also know what it’s like to both give and receive community support, and participate in public actions and campaigns in a variety of ways (including some that you might not think of at all when you think of “climate action”), and take care of our neighborhoods and our neighbors, also in a variety of ways. We know what it’s like to succeed, to fail, to learn and regroup, and to relish the pleasures and satisfactions of working toward a better world together.
This toolkit focuses on organizing to improve climate and environmental policy and regulation, but many of the methods within it and the relationships you’ll strengthen through it, you can also apply to other forms of climate action and activism, from disaster preparedness and response to nonviolent direct action.
Where in the world is?
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. 15: Parish Lay Ministry Academy (PLMA)
Apr. 16: Briarwood Service of Thanksgiving and Transition, Argyle, TX
Apr. 21-22: Lutheran Men in Mission Annual Meeting
Apr. 23: 100th Anniversary Celebration, First United, Dallas
Apr. 28-29: NT-NL Synod Assembly, Shreveport, LA
Pastor Totzke:
Apr. 16: Christ the Servant, Allen, then Briarwood Service of Thanksgiving and Transition, Argyle, TX
Apr. 20: Youth Leaders lunch, Rejoice, Coppell
Apr. 22: WELCA retreat, St. Luke’s, Richardson
Apr. 25: First Call Pastors check-in, Zoom
Apr. 28-29: NT-NL Synod Assembly, Shreveport, LA
Apr. 30: St. Stephen, Shreveport, LA
May 4: Transitional / Interim pastors monthly meeting and Region 4 consultation meeting, both via Zoom
May 5-9: Vacation
May 18: Youth Leaders lunch, Rejoice, Coppell
May 20: Candidacy committee meeting
May 23: First Call Pastors check-in, Zoom
Pastora Bañales:
Apr. 11: NT-NL Renewal team meeting, Advent, Arlington
Apr. 12: Stewardship workshop, Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Irving
Apr. 13: ELCA Candidacy Working Group
Apr. 15: Teaching for Spanish PLMA, Adviento, Arlington
Apr. 17: Clergy Latina Conference meeting
Apr. 18: ELCA Latino Strategy Team
Apr. 19: New Latinx Young Adult exploration ministry
Apr. 20: Meeting with NT-NL pastor, then SSTE Summit with Region 4 Bishops
Apr. 21-22: Christian Education Workshop with Puppets, Latina Conference
Apr. 24: DEMs of Color meeting, then NT-NL Renewal Team meeting
Apr. 25: Stewardship Preaching, ULS Gettysburg Campus Livestream
Apr. 28-29: NT-NL Synod Assembly, Shreveport, LA
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. 12: Courageous Leadership – Stella Young & Tom Nash – Disability, Inspiration Porn, and the Perks of Being a Pirate – Zoom
- Apr. 15: Parish Lay Ministry Academy (PLMA), Spring 1, Course 2, Hybrid
- Apr. 16: Briarwood Service of Thanksgiving and Transition, Argyle, TX
- Apr. 16: LAST DAY to register for Synod Assembly, Online (NO registrations will be accepted on site)
- Apr. 16: LAST DAY to book Synod Assembly hotel rooms at the guaranteed reduced rate, Online
- Apr. 19: Courageous Leadership – Kelly McGonigal – How to Harness Stress to Benefit You – Zoom
- Apr. 22: Women’s Retreat, Richardson, TX
- Apr. 25: First Call Pastors Check-in, Zoom
- Apr. 26: Courageous Leadership – Jamie Bruesehoff – Raising Kids Beyond the Binary: Celebrating God’s Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children – Zoom
- Apr. 27: Cultivating Compassion Session 4: Think Again, Online
- Apr. 28-29: 2023 NT-NL Synod Assembly, Shreveport, LA
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.