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NT-NL News: October 2018, Fifth Monday

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ELCA Coach Training, Levels 1 and 2

Following up on the learning from our experience at our 2017 NT-NL Leadership Convocation and our initial Coach Training launch in February of this year, we will be hosting another ELCA Coach Training, Level 1, event Tuesday-Wednesday, November 27-28, 8am-5pm both days. This will be an opportunity to learn more about coaching and begin the process (for those who desire) towards coaching certification. The cost per person is only $150 for NT-NL members or $350 for all others *. This cost will assist with materials and presenters and invites commitment from participants.

Click here for the ELCA Coaching Ministry Overview.

REGISTER HERE for ELCA Coach Training, Level 1.

Our first ELCA Coach Training, Level 2, event will be held the following day, Thursday, November 29.

Focus: Stewardship and Discipleship

Participants must have completed Level 1 training and all required follow-up.

REGISTER HERE for ELCA Coach Training, Level 2.

* Both events are limited in size and will be heavily subsidized by the ELCA and DiscipleLife Endowment Funds.

Exciting Updates from World Hunger

Thanks to your incredible generosity, ELCA World Hunger has met its matching goal of $515,000 for the #GlobalFarmChallenge. Together, we’ve raised more than $1 million for the agricultural work of ELCA World Hunger! But the need continues. Learn more at https://elca.org/GlobalFarmChallenge.

Walk alongside the Nkhoma family and see your gifts to ELCA World Hunger in action.

Set up your own Global Farm Challenge Field Experience, a simulation of the challenges smallholder farmers face to produce enough profit for food and savings.

So now what? /  Entonces… ¿Ahora qué?

Last year, it was all Reformation all the time. On this 501st anniversary of the Reformation, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton uses her October Living Lutheran column to call on us to “refocus our attention on the gospel of our freedom, forgiveness and reconciliation given to us through God’s indescribable act of love in Christ’s death and resurrection.” Read her column in English, o lee su columna en español.

Featured Resources for October

STEWARDSHIP

For more than a decade, the Center for Stewardship Leaders at Luther Seminary has published a weekly e-newsletter. Recently, the center went through its database of hundreds of reflections and selected 17 top posts that lay the groundwork for innovative stewardship ministry. These articles have been assembled into a PDF titled “Stewardship 101: An Invitation to Financial Stewardship.”

Currents in Theology and Mission is an online theological journal of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Wartburg Theological Seminary. This issue is all about stewardship and what stewardship looks like through fresh lenses.

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For periodic ideas and inspiration on stewardship delivered to your inbox, check out Voices on Stewardship from Vanco Financial Services and Stewardship from Luther Seminary’s Center for Stewardship Leaders.

Save the Date

Bridging the Divide: Skills for better, more civil conversations in an uncivil society

Shepherd of Life, Arlington

November 10, 9am-1pm

We live in a polarized society in which neither “side” listens to the other. Families are being split apart, friendships are fractured, and even our church family finds it difficult to bridge the divide. We are unable to talk about the most important topics that affect our lives. We can do better. This workshop provides a Biblical foundation for honoring the humanity of others, and teaches skills to have better, more meaningful conversations with those with whom we disagree.

Click here for a bulletin insert in PDF format.

Recent Blog Post

Pastor Totzke:

Fall Festival in Crawford

(https://www.ntnl.org/fall-festival-in-crawford/ – published Oct. 23)

Where in the world is?

Bishop Gronberg:

  • Oct. 22-31: Visit to Sierra Leone, re-establishing relationship and covenant agreement with ELCSL
  • Nov. 4: Evensong at King of Glory, Dallas

Pastor Totzke:

  • Oct. 22-31: Visit to Sierra Leone, re-establishing relationship and covenant agreement with ELCSL
  • Nov. 4: Community of Hope, Fort Worth

Pastora Bañales:

  • Oct. 30: Meetings at St Luke’s, Richardson

Upcoming Events

Access our full online Calendar here. Updates made regularly.

Do you have news or announcements to share? Please submit to the Synod office (office@ntnl.org) for consideration for upcoming NT-NL News.