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Victory
is ours! Victory is ours! Through God who loves us.
I am intrigued and inspired by the calendric fact that Easter is longer than Lent.
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and concludes with Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday). While we tend to focus on the 40 fasting days of Lent, whenthe Sundays along the way are included, Lent always includes exactly 46 calendar days.
Easter is not just one day, though we tend to think of it that way. It begins with Easter Sunday, of course, but it doesn't end until Pentecost Sunday, ever and always exactly 50 days later.
50 is, of course, greater than 46. In other words, Easter always wins!
Read more or download a copy of the April Newsletter to share with your congregation.
2017 Chrism Liturgies
You still have time to register for one of the gatherings in your area. The agenda of the day may vary slightly, but will follow this general schedule:
- 9:00 am -Arrival refreshments
- 10:00 am -Worship: Blessing Oils, Eucharist, Prayer for Healing, Renewal of Ministry Commitments
- 11:30 am -Lunch, either at the church or a local restaurant. Group conversation with the bishop will follow lunch if lunch is at the church and precede lunch if lunch is at a restaurant.
- Wrap up by 1:30 pm
The remaining dates and locations for these liturgies are:
- Tuesday, April 4 -St. Paul's Lutheran Church,121 S. 18th St., Richmond, IN
- NEW LOCATION - - Thursday, April 6 - Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 53720 N Ironwood Rd, South Bend, IN
- Tuesday, April 11 (Holy Week) -Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal), 116 Market St., Lexington, KY
2017 Indiana-Kentucky Synod Assembly -June 1-3, 2017
Formed, Reformed, Transformed
Early Bird registration ends March 31 so make haste! Visit our
website for all the information you need on this year's Assembly which will be held
at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky.
A Call to Prayer
from the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
"As the Conference of Bishops, we call our worshiping communities to pray for raising
up leaders for this church. We ask that the petitions of every worship service include a plea that new lay leaders, deacons and pastors be identified, invited, encouraged and supported in responding to God's call to ministry." [adopted March 4, 2017]
Please read this special appeal from Bishop Gafkjen in its entirety at the homepage of our website:
www.iksynod.org
Panel Discussion at Christian Theological Seminary
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CONGREGATION NEWS
Prayer Concerns
During the weekly I-K Lutheran Center staff devotions we included these individuals and mission centers in our prayers:
Christ Chapel, Elizabethtown, KY and
Rev. Robert Hetzel, pastor of record
Christ, Crawfordsville, IN
and Rev. Kelly Nelson
Christ, Evansville, IN
and Rev. Tom Vanslow, vacancy
Christ, Hammond, IN and
Rev. Christine Schrey, vacancy
Christ, Jasper, IN and
Rev. Timothy Kraemer
Rostered Ministers N
ot Under Congregation Call
Deacon Marilyn Hugh, retired, Desplaines, IL
Rev. Richard Hunt, retired, Fishers, IN
Rev. Leonard Jepsen, retired, Mishawaka, IN
Rev. Brian Peterson, Teacher of Religion, Trinity School at Greenlawn, South Bend, IN
Rev. Terri Peterson, on leave from call, South Bend, IN
Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod and Bishop Michael Girlinghouse
Also Lifted up in Prayer:
Our prayers and sympathies are with Rev. David Doane, Holy Trinity, Lafayette, IN, whose mother, Janet, died and whose funeral will be March 23.
We also hold Rev. Jack Dixon, St. John, Napoleon, IN in our prayers and sympathies, whose mother, Peggy Jean, died this past week. The internment will be March 25 in Louisville, KY. We also keep Rev. Dixon in prayer as he has received a cancer diagnosis and is awaiting surgery on April 20 and further treatment.
We lift up in prayer the family and friends of Rev. Samuel Klopfer, retired, Michigan City, IN who died this week. Information about the funeral arrangements will be shared as they are made known to the synod.
We lift up prayers of healing for Amy O'Neal, wife of Rev. Jerry O'Neal, Holy Trinity, Muncie, IN, as she recovers from knee replacement surgery on March 22, and for Rev. Christine Wulff, Cross and Crown, Indianapolis, IN, who has injured her knee and is awaiting an appointment with a surgeon this week.
We pray for wisdom and discernment for Bishop Izani Bruch and the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (IELCH), one of our global companion churches, as they prepare for their upcoming General Assembly on April 29th.
German Good Friday Worship
You are invited to join Zion Evangelical Church in Indianapolis at 10:00 a.m. on Good Friday, April 14, for a special service in German with easy to follow translation. For a flyer to share, please
click here.
Congregational Update Forms
Have you had leadership changes recently? Help us keep our records updated and your members connected to what is happening in our Mission Territory and throughout the ELCA. Please
download your form and after completed, return it to
April Lynch
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CHURCH-WIDE NEWS
In her March
column for Living Lutheran, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton ponders the parable of the good Samaritan, reminding us that our new life in Christ leads us to answer a different question-not "Who is my neighbor?" but "How are we neighbor?" Read her column in English or in Spanish or download a copy to share with your congregation.
Catechumenate
You are invited to experience this simple yet profound way of making disciples at a Training Institute being held May 4-6, 2017 in Arden, North Carolina. The event for pastors, seminarians, and lay leaders is co-sponsored by Journey to Baptismal Living (NAAC) and the North Carolina Synod (ELCA). Bring a team and be immersed in the movements and worship rites of the Catechumenate. Every participant receives a training manual and free copy of Go Make Disciples: An Invitation to Baptismal Living (Augsburg Fortress) that will help you introduce this discipling process to your congregation. Read
more or
register here.
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