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July 23
Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke Leads Bible Study
“What does the Bible say about . . . :
Hope, Homosexuality and Hospitality?”
Creator , 13250 SE Sunnyside Road, Clackamas ( east of I-205)
6:00 PM Potluck
7:00 PM Bible Study
As Creator Lutheran Church in Clackamas considers becoming a “Reconciling in Christ” community, the question “What does the Bible say about homosexuality?” has come up. It’s a good question. We want a thoughtful answer. So we went straight to the Bishop and asked! Everyone is invited to come to Creator on Wednesday evening, July 23 when Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke of the Oregon Synod will lead us in a Bible Study on just this concern.
“It’s not so much what the Bible says as what we hear.” suggests Bishop Brauer-Rieke. “The question is always one of interpretation. The Bible clearly tells us not to lend money with interest, but this is the heart of our modern day economy. The Bible never questions the institution of slavery, but we today find it repugnant. The real question is not “What does the Bible say …” but “How do we faithfully engage modern day insights, opportunities and needs with the Word of God?”
So join us for a Bible study not only on homosexuality, but on the power of the Living Word of God for everyday life. “What does the Bible say about . . . ?” You fill in the blank!
August 3
Holy Land Travel Report
Guest speaker Ann Hafften, ELCA Middle East networking coordinator
Central Lutheran, 1820 NE 21st Ave, Portland
9:00 -10:00 am
Guest speaker Ann Hafften will talk about the trip she's just led and
bring us greetings from Palestinian Lutherans. Ann is a free-lance
journalist, author and former ELCA Middle East networking coordinator.
See Ann's website and blog, "A Texas Lutheran's Voice for Middle East
Peace <http://voicesforpeace.blogspot.com>, for prayer, education and
advocacy resources. During 2005, Ann led a trip which included three
bishops.
August 16
Women of the ELCA-Bible Study Event
“The Hidden Hand of God:
Wisdom stories from Ruth, Daniel and Esther”
by Rev. Gwen Sayler and Rev. Ann Fritschel
Trinity Lutheran Church, 507 W. Powell Blvd., Gresham, Oregon
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
September 13
New Consecration Sunday Seminar
St. Paul Lutheran Church, 3880 SE Brooklyn Street, Portland
9:30 am until noon
It’s that time of year to be planning your congregation’s fall stewardship drive. If you haven’t already decided what your program will be, the synod stewardship committee has a suggestion. The New Consecration Sunday program is very effective in teaching Biblical giving practices including tithing and first fruit giving. Developing faithful habits in giving is an important part of teaching the faith. This seminar will give you insight into the updates that Herb Miller has made to this program if you are already familiar with the (classic) Consecration Sunday program. As a new user, you will find the orientation very helpful for planning your use of these materials in your congregation for this year or next year.
The synod stewardship committee is hosting an orientation on this new program. Please join us at St. Paul Lutheran Church (3880 SE Brooklyn Street, Portland) on Saturday, September 13 th from 9:30am until noon. There is a $20 registration fee per congregation with an unlimited number of people attending from each congregation. Please contact Becky Brown to register or if you have questions about the event: 503-244-1797 or becky.brown@comcast.net (don’t forget the dot between becky and brown). Visit www.oregonsynod.org/growingfaith/stewardship/index.htm for more information. We look forward to seeing you at the event.
Download PDF Flyer and PDF Agenda
July 17
ELCA Hunger Grant Application for 2009 Available Online
The ELCA Domestic Hunger Program is part of the ELCA World Hunger Program, and both are coordinated by the Program Unit for Church in Society.
Food for Life: Recipes and Stories on the Right to Food
(North American version)
Global recipes, stories, and table blessings from the Lutheran World Federation
$14 plus shipping; available for pre-order
AF order number 978-6-0002-2174-4
Use this collection of recipes, stories, and table blessings to prepare global dishes for your family and congregation, and to highlight the Lutheran World Federation and ELCA World Hunger.
The global recipes, adapted for North American cooks, are categorized by the agricultural cycle (dishes for growing, planting, harvesting, and "hungry" seasons); the religious cycle (dishes for religious celebrations and observances); the life cycle (dishes for important days like birthdays, weddings, and funerals); and daily life (breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks). This highly anticipated book, co-produced by the LWF, the ELCA, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, will be ready to ship by October 1, 2008.
Pre-order your copies by visiting www.augsburgfortress.org/elcahunger.
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July 20
World Peace Starts with Us
Keynote Speaker: Fariborz Pakseresht
St. Mark, 790 Marion St., Salem
11:00 am - 12 noon
Pakseresht will discuss the roots of violence and the path to personal and politcal peace in the world. There is no charge to attend the forum. For more information contact St. Mark Lutheran Church at 503-588-0414 between the hours of 830 am -5:00 pm.
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July 28 – August 1
Bethany’s 4th Annual Day Camp
Bethany Lutheran Church, NE 37th Ave & Skidmore, Portland
9am – 3 pm (Mon-Thr), 9am-11:45am (Fri)
This is a wonderful opportunity for your camper (ages 5 - 12 yrs. old) to experience an incredible week of high energy Christian summer camp without having to leave the city. Campers will enjoy (among a few) participating in Bible adventure time, making fun crafts, learning highly interactive camp songs, engaging in fabulous puppet skits, and helping to lead our closing worship on Friday.
Trained staff from Camp Lutherwood (www.lutherwood.org) and trained volunteers from Bethany Lutheran Church will provide leadership, nurturing, and care for your campers throughout the week. The week includes 2 snacks and a hot lunch each day, a “Water-Day”, and a field trip to Grant swimming pool for $40. Generous scholarships are available for campers needing funds to attend.
Registration forms are available on-line at www.bethanyportland.org. Send completed registration forms and your payments (if by check, payable to: Bethany Lutheran Church; memo: Day Camp) to: Bethany Lutheran Church, 4330 NE 37th Ave, Portland, OR, 97211. Questions? Please contact our camp registrar, Eileen Eckart, at 503-288-4650.
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September 29
Fall workshops to feature energy stewardship for congregations, homes and businesses. Two workshops to help congregations, businesses and individuals save energy and money, presented by Oregon Interfaith Power & Light (OIPL), a project of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, McMinnville Water and Light, and Bonneville Power Administration, and co-sponsored by Oregon Department of Energy. Better energy stewardship benefits the bottom-line of congregations, businesses and households and protects natural resources. These workshops will assist all who desire to improve energy stewardship.
“Energy Stewardship Workshop: A Dynamic Workshop Empowering Individuals and Congregations to Save Energy, Money and the Earth.”
McMinnville Community Cooperative Ministries, 544 NE 2nd St., McMinnville
6 to 8:30 pm
Topics include household energy efficiency, how your household or congregation can reduce its energy cost, incentives and financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, the ethics of energy stewardship, and renewable energy options that are clean and affordable.
“Save Your Congregation Energy and Money: A Consultation on Energy Stewardship for Facilities Managers, Clergy and Building Committee Members.”
First Baptist Church, 125 SE Cowls St., McMinnville
12 to 2:30 pm
Geared to the needs of congregations, the consultation will cover key principles of energy stewardship for congregations, low-cost and no-cost measures to save energy expenses, energy ethics and funding energy efficiency projects for religious facilities.
Cost: $15 per workshop or $25 for both workshops. Youth are free. A light meal and materials included. Scholarships available. For discounts available to groups from a single congregation, call (503) 221-1054, ext. 203. To register, please contact OIPL at (503) 221-1054, ext. 203, or e-mail jkam@emoregon.org by Sept. 24.
The keynote speaker for both workshops will be Doug Boleyn, PE, who has over 30 years of experience in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He is the energy consultant for Oregon Interfaith Power & Light, past-president of the Solar Oregon, president of Cascade Solar Consulting, LLC, and a member of the Energy Trust of Oregon Renewable Advisory Committee.
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October 17-18
Deborah Govenor - Workshop
“ How Can I Keep From Singing? ” Community as a Gift from God
Gloria Dei, Coos Bay
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is very excited to host a nationally recognized clinician, sacred composer and arranger, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Coos Bay, Oregon. Sacred choral enthusiasts would normally have to go to Portland or Seattle to attend a clinic like this and pay twice as much. This clinic is for choir directors, music leaders, worship leaders, pastors and choral singers. The cost is $ 35.00 per person which will include a music packet. To register please go to http://www.gloriadeifamily.org/. $45.00 after September 15, 2008. In order to guarantee a music packet, must receive registration by September 15, 2008
Download PDF Registration Form
 November 1
"Not The Way I Heard It"
Host: Nationally and Internationally Recognized Actor, Chuck Neighbors
Trinity Lutheran Church, 500 N. Second St., Silverton
7:00 p.m.
Put November 1st on your calendar and reserve your church bus or van for a trip to Silverton in November. Trinity will host a drama performance by nationally and internationally recognized actor, Chuck Neighbors.
In "Not The Way I Heard It," Neighbors brings some of our favorite parables to life, as the familiar stories told in a fresh new way. You will see and hear, and feel the human emotions in:
- The Parable of the Talents set in a psychiatrist's office from a patient who is struggling with life after losing his job.
- The Parable of the Prodigal Son from the "other son's" point of view as he communicates his feelings toward his wayward brother.
- The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard from a disgruntled employee trying to come to terms with the boss's apparent favoritism.
- The Parable Good Samaritan from the victim's perspective, as he discovers what it means to "love your neighbor as yourself."
- The Parable of the Sower and the Seeds from a grandfather sharing the sorrow and joys of the differing paths his children have chosen.
A freewill offering will be received for the work of Masters Image Productions. For more information, email trinityevents@wildblue.net or phone 503-874-9481.
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Last Week's News
July 8
Message from Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson
Dear Colleague in Ministry:
Recently, I joined with three leaders of Lutheran organizations in writing a letter to the two major party candidates for U.S. President, U.S. Sen. John McCain and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. The letter, which highlights policy priorities on a number of topics, was signed by Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr., president, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service; the Rev. John A. Nunes, president, Lutheran World Relief; Jill A. Schumann, president and chief executive officer, Lutheran Services in America; and me.
The text of that letter is now available for your use on the ELCA Web site at http://archive.elca.org/bishop/messages/candidatesletter.html
In addition, I recommend that you read "Called to be a Public Church: 2008 ELCA Voting and Civic Participation Guide," which offers a helpful examination of important matters related to the role of the church in the upcoming election. It can be found on the Web at http://archive.elca.org/advocacy/publicchurch/publicchurch08.pdf
Blessings to you in your ministry!
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA Presiding Bishop
Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality
We know that 50 pages of a theological document can be overwhelming for many of the people. So,one-page documents from the Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality have been created. These documents pull quotes from the draft on topics that may be of interest. Topics such as Justice for Women, Strong Families, Sexual Abuse, etc. are available. To access these one-pagers, please visit: www.elca.org/faithfuljourney/publicity
These can be used a fliers, posters, bulletin inserts - or any other
imaginative way. You don't have to read the entire draft to respond to the task force. This is an issue that affects us all everyday.
In God's Name
Who is God? What is death? What is worth dying for? How do you explain fanaticism and violence waged in the name of God? Candid responses and profound comments by the world's great spiritual leaders are accompanied by magnificent, never-before-published images of these wise men and women, as well as ordinary people engaged in religious practices around the world. Their voices span geographical and theological distances yet come together to create a spiritually satisfying and meaningful worldview.
In God's Name offers readers a rare opportunity to know 12 of the most holy people alive today, and their answers to eternal questions of life and death, war and peace, doubt and belief, and the nature of God. In this provocative book, we're privileged to meet Bishop Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA.
Published by National Geographic visit http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/4295.html to get a copy of your own.
A Change in the Process of Giving to the Allert Fund for Leaders
Your leadership matters to the ELCA and to future generations of pastors and rostered lay professionals. Through the Allert Fund for Leaders, you support new leaders and make an investment in the mission of this church so that every potential leader may have the opportunity to become an ambassador for Christ.
Gifts and checks that are received at churchwide without instructions designating the Oregon Allert Fund for leaders will be place into the general ELCA Fund for Leaders Endowment. Since we know that you desire to support the Oregonian seminarians please indicate on your gifts that funds are for the Oregon Allert Fund for Leaders and include #E270799 on your contributions.
A coupon for your use with this information can be downloaded at Oregon Synod Allert Fund page at http://www.oregonsynod.org/faithinaction/give/allert.htm or download now.
For more information on how to give to this fund contact
Director of Planned Giving of the Oregon Synod
Dr. Patricia Larsen
Regional Gift Planner of the ELCA
Blessed2Give@cs.com
503-244-4102
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July 24
Presentation by George Hunsinger, PhD, "A Battle for the Soul of Our Nation: Why Torture Matters."
Nativity Lutheran Church, 60850 Brosterhous Rd., Bend.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Download registration brochure.
A catered luncheon will be held in the fellowship hall at $10/person.
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August 1, 8, 15, 22
The fourth annual “Four by Four” Piano Duet Recital Series will feature the music of Franz Schubert, along with music inspired by childhood. The four Friday noontime concerts in August by four different piano ensemble teams will take place at St. James Lutheran Church on SW Jefferson in the South Park blocks across from the Portland Art Museum. Admission is free but donations at the door are needed to support the series.
August 1 - Josephine Pohl and Linda Rodgers will play the Schubert Ab Variations on an Original Theme, Faure’s Dolly Suite, one of the Dvorak Slavonic Dances, and the popular 5th Hungarian Dance by Brahms.
August 8 - Bend pianists Margaret Littlehales, Lynn Goetz, and Kathleen Gault will join together for Schubert’s Two Characteristic Marches, the Mother Goose Suite by Ravel, and Debussy’s Petite Suite.
August 15- Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel will perform Schubert’s F minor Fantasy, selections from Bizet’s Children’s Games, Mark Thrall’s Song of New York, and a new work by local composer Joel Morris titled Northern Lights and dedicated to the LeRoi-Nickel Duo.
August 22nd - will feature the duo of Angela Carlson and Rebecca Jeffers from Oregon State University playing Schubert’s A major Rondo, the newly commissioned Pianoduo of Michael Ippolito, Gavotte by Nicolai von Wilm, a waltz of Ernst von Dohnanyi, and selections from a set of dances by Matyas Seiber.
For more information, please contact Nancy Nickel or the St. James Lutheran Church Office at 503/227-2439.
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August 18
GIA Reading Sessions for Choral Directors
Recital Hall, Mago Hunt Center, University of Portland, 5000 N Willamette Blvd., Portland
Check in: 7:00 pm
Sessions: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free registration and complementary music packet included. Choral music in a wide range of styles, difficulty, and voicing. Clinician: Michael Connolly. Register free online at www.giamusic.com or call 1-800-GIA-1385. Participation is open to all choral directors and accompanist. Limit two persons per church unless there is multiple directors. Be prepared to give the name(s) of those attending, your church name, and zip code, and which session you plan to attend. These GIA Choral Reading Sessions emphasize choral anthems more than congregational music.
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October 27-29
Advanced Volunteer Management Conference
"Climbing Higher, Diving Deeper"
Portland, Oregon
Join internationally known volunteer management experts Susan J. Ellis, Rick Lynch, Steve McCurley, Linda Graff, and Martin J. Cowling as they lead us through timely and relevant topics designed for the experienced manager of volunteers. Don't miss this opportunity to gather best practices and develop new skills from the top trainers.
Register online at www.oregonvolunteers.org by September 1st for the Early-Bird rate of $250. Capacity is limited, so register now! Registration, lodging information and conference agenda available online: http://www.oregonvolunteers.org/
Sponsored by:
Institute for Nonprofit Management at Portland State University
Mid-Valley Volunteer Managers Association – MVVMA
Northwest Oregon Volunteer Administrators Association – NOVAA
Oregon Volunteers
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