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SYNOD NEWS AND EVENTS - May 22, 2019
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Synod Assembly Announcements
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- Be sure to double check your registration confirmation email to make sure all your congregation's voting members are registered.
- Please send in your registration fee prior to the assembly. If you would like to pay online, click here.
- Purchased printed pre-assembly books are being mailed to your congregations today! (Printed books are available to purchase for $25 through your assembly registration.) The pre-assembly book is also available to download online and through our Synod Assembly App!
- If you missed the synod assembly e-mail, click here for all the assembly information.
- The Food packing sign up link is posted! Click here to help with a shift!
"Better Together" Redwood Falls Food Packing Event
This event is a service project held at the SW MN Synod Assembly and is open to the community and surrounding areas.
Location: Civic Arena
Times: 7:30-9am Set-up; 9-11am Food Packing Shift; 11am-1pm Food Packing Shift; 1-3pm packing/Cleanup.
The "Better Together" Food Packing Event has two missional goals:
Goal #1- Provide opportunities for cross-cultural relationship building
Goal #2- Provide nutritious food for local communities
Sign up to participate: https://bit.ly/2Q4HSoh
Make a Donation: All donations matched!
Goal = $10,000 (matched $20,000) for 70,000 meals!
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Assembly Worship Service for Lay Leaders
We invite pastors/worship planners to create a worship bulletin using their familiar Service of the Word format in local context along with Bishop Jon's sermon, suggested hymns (others if desired) and prayer of the day.
Bishop Jon has prepared this sermon without any explicit linkage to the 2019 assembly. That, we hope, might make it possible to use this sermon on a Sunday when your congregation might need it.
It is one of three sermons he will be doing on the three articles of the Apostles' Creed.
The Gospel lesson this sermon is based on is from Pentecost. This could be read by a reader on a Sunday when this text is not in the lectionary, if it is used at another time.
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2019 Synod Assembly Sermon Bp Jon Anderson
Click here to watch and download. |
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Thanks.
Update on Robyn's Health
+Bishop Jon V. Anderson
Conversations this week have reminded me that I should share an update. My spouse, Robyn, discovered she had breast cancer late last year. Since the beginning of this year Robyn has gone through genetic testing, a lumpectomy, radiation treatments and the beginnings of anti-estrogen hormone treatments that will continue for the next five years. Robyn did not need to have chemotherapy because her sentinel lymph nodes were clear and her biology was favorable for this approach of hormone therapy. We learned in the genetic testing that Robyn does not carry markers that would increase the odds our daughters and nieces are likely to develop breast cancer.
We are grateful to be where we are now. We are grateful for your prayers and support in the last several months. Our compassion for those living with cancer has grown deeper. Our awareness of the beauty and fragility of life has as well. We are thankful for all the people who have walked with us and the amazing gift of our bodies God created, their healing capacity and the gift of healing from God through the hands of many people.
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Parental Paid Leave
There has been conversation with our Compensation Committee and our Synod Council around the question of "How much parental leave should our guidelines recommend?"
A conversation I had with my daughter who is a Physician's Assistant in LaCrosse was fruitful. It gave me an idea.
I would like to invite people to talk to people from a variety of employers and sectors and report what they are learning is offered in terms of parental leave.
This would be a gentle way of advocating for parental leave in our communities. It would also help our compensation committee learn more about how people are receiving or not receiving parental leave as part of their compensation.
Please enter your congregation's parental leave policy if you have one. This will help us see the practices of many congregations.
If you have such a conversation, please share what you learn in this online form. You might have multiple conversations, like in a bible study or governance group. You can make multiple submissions.
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Notes of Gratitude
As we anticipate Pastor Larry Strenge's "Re-fire-ment," we invite you to share a note of gratitude, a memory, or a fun story, which we will assemble into a booklet for him. Please send your emails to maggie.berggren@swmnelca.org or handwritten notes to Attn: Maggie Berggren, SW MN Synod, PO Box 499, Redwood Falls, MN 56283.
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Job Opening
American Lutheran Church in Worthington, MN is seeking a Parish Nurse to join their team. Faith Community Nurse (Parish Nurse) - 20 hrs/wk, competitive wage. Seeking individual with passion for journeying with people in times of suffering and joy, working with pastors and Caring Ministry Team to facilitate a holistic approach to care. Strengths to include: self-starter, leader, organized, flexible, team player, able to keep confidentiality. MN licensed RN; Bachelor's preferred. Church will pay for FCN training. Inquiries and resumes to Pastor Gary Andersen at alcpastorga@gmail.com or American Lutheran Church, 915 Winifred St., Worthington, MN 56187.
Click here to view job description.
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Southwestern Minnesota Synod, ELCA
PO Box 499, Redwood Falls, MN 56283
Phone: 507-637-3904
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