FINAL SYNOD EDUCATIONAL GATHERING JUNE 4TH IN LONGVIEW
GROW TOGETHER
The Synod is hosting a day that we can come together to worship, learn through two workshop sessions on a variety of interesting topics for church and individual growth, listen to a keynote, and share a boxed lunch. Meet new people from area churches! ALL ARE INVITED!
Comments from people who went to the two earlier this spring: "I'm thankful that I've found new friends", "I learned so much!", "Can you do this more often?", "I love seeing people!"
Saturday, June 4th 10am-3:30pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, Longview
Cost: $25 each, includes lunch, workshops, worship, keynote, displays. (Congregations may register several people and mail the Synod full payment for all in 1 check.)
Registration deadline to register is noon on Wednesday, June 1st, so we can have enough lunches.
Workshops:
- I Love to Tell the Story: writing grants that can help fund your mission and vision
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Finding Resurrection in the Tomb (Building relationships with “out of the box”
ministries to renew your ministry)
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Growing Young as we Grow Together (Supporting and building Birth to Age 35
Ministries)
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All Creation Sings (new ELCA hymnal introduction)
- Healing from the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools and the Orange Banner
Project (Synod Native American Work Team discusses the schools and the orange
banner project supporting the trauma recovery.)
- Cultivating Spiritual Imagination
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Faith Land Stewardship (Discerning the future of your church’s land)
Keynote "Sacred Encounter":(Joey Ager, our Bishop’s Associate and DEM.) As a community organizer, Joey will talk about how we grow together as congregations, communities and society. We'll look at sacred encounters- with others, our selves, the land and God- as a foundational practice of being community together and of growing in new directions.
Questions: Call Synod Office 253-535-8300 or email us .
