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CELEBRATIONS
Happy July 4 Holiday! Hooray for
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PRAYER
CONCERNS
Pr. Luther Knauff, retired-Conover,
who had colon surgery in May, is expected to be recovering at
Carolina Rehab Center of Burke, west of
Hickory, for about a month. Phone:
828-397-3144
Nancy Bollinger, wife of Pr. John
Bollinger, interim at Bethany-Boone, is having back
surgery. Prayers are appreciated.
NC Council of Churches member prayer
request The North Carolina Council
of Churches asks you to join them throughout the
year in prayers for the Council's member bodies and their
leaders.
During July, please join them
in praying for the following:
Diocese of East Carolina, Episcopal
Church
The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III, Bishop
North
Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church
Bishop
Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr., Resident Bishop
Olin T.
Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
The Rev. Denise Cumbee
Long, Interim
Pastor
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IN
SYMPATHY
No new
information |
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TRANSITIONS
No new
transitions |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The synod office will be closed July
4 for Independence
Day.
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SYNOD/REGION 9/ELCA EVENTS
NC Synod Fall
Convocation for Professional Leaders 2008
September
22-24, 2008
Lutheridge-Arden, NC
This annual continuing education event
is for all full-time and part-time NC Synod pastors and
professional leaders.
The theme for this year's
gathering is "Being Church in 21st Century."
The
gathering begins with lunch on Monday and ends mid-morning on
Wednesday. Join in the worship, workshops and wonderful
fellowship.
Refer to the brochure for the
outstanding slate of presenters from across the
country.
Download the
brochure
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| CONGREGATION NEWS &
EVENTS
You are invited to a
block party and concert in Mt. Holly on July
10
Good Shepherd-Mt. Holly invites
you to a "free" Christian Music Concert July 10, 7:00 p.m.
(not July 7 as stated in
last weeks e-news)
Download a flyer
with all the details to post in your
congregation.
St.
John's-Salisbury's spring mission trip to
Guatamala 
St. John's-Salisbury sponsored
an adult mission trip to Antigua, Guatemala, through
Mission Discovery. During the March 23-29 trip, they
served La Escuela Integrada, a free school started by
missionaries from the United States.
The group held vacation Bible school and visited in the
children's homes, bearing gifts of care/food
products. They also helped rennovate a building that was
to be used to care for street children.
Good
Shepherd-Mt. Holly took part in Thrivent-Builds and became
video stars
In April, the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd-Mt
Holly sent a team of 15 church members to Biloxi, Miss.,
for a week of building houses with ThriventBuilds (cooperative
project between Habitat for Humanity and Thrivent Financial
for Lutherans) helping those people recover from Hurricane
Katrina. An article with
photos appeared in the May issue of
ThriventBuilds, their online monthly
magazine.
That same week, Holy Comforter-Belmont, a town
about five miles south of Mt. Holly, also sent a
team. During that time, ThriventBuilds had a camera crew
there and took video footage and did some
interviews. Some of the footage was used to update a
20-minute video used for orientation of volunteers at the
Yankie Stadium facility in Biloxi run by Habitat and the
Salvation Army. ThriventBuilds updated the last
5-minutes of that video using some of the footage taken during
the week. From the video clips taken that week, they also
made a 5-minute video for use in retruiting new teams and team
leaders to go to Biloxi. They're in both
videos. View the 5-minute recruitment video
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NEWS
Twin Lakes hosted
Memory Walk
Twin Lakes
Retirement Community hosted its annual Memory Walk
Saturday, June 14 with over 125 walkers participating and
raising over $25,000 for the Alzheimer's Association. Honorary
chairperson and mayor of Elon, Jerry Tolley, greeted the crowd
expressing his support of the event as participants enjoyed
their pre-walk breakfast. A raffle was held for a trip to
Cancun, Mexico with all proceeds benefiting the Alzheimer's
appeal. Pizza and drinks replenished the weary walkers after
their mission was complete with Company Shops Band providing
entertainment. The walk began and ended at Twin Lakes Memory
Care building which is scheduled to open July 1.
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not synod sponsored
National symposium on
health and hope
Wheat Ridge Ministries
will bring together people of faith from a variety of
backgrounds and perspectives at its 2008 National Symposium on
Health and Hope, slated for October 2-4, 2008 in Milwaukee,
WI.
The theme of the Symposium is "Living Well! The Body
Language of Faith." This event will provide a rare
opportunity for leaders to be resourced and renewed in their
ongoing work of being effective agents of health and hope
within the diverse communities in which they live, work, play
and pray.
Let your parish nurses know about this opportunity.
Special discounts opportunities are available! To learn
more, visit the Symposium Web site at www.symposium.wheatridge.org
. To request a registration booklet
call Wheat Ridge Ministries at
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OPPORTUNITIES for
MINISTRY
Endorse this NC Council of Churches appeal for
justice for immigrants
Join other people of faith as they endorse this
call for justice for immigrants, which has been signed by NC
Synod Bishop Leonard H. Bolick.
In conclusion the statement reads: "We
recognize that immigration policy is complex and
multi-faceted, but we agree that all immigrants are made in
God's image and that our religious traditions demand that we
care especially for the stranger. We call on all people of
faith to stand with immigrants as a matter of religious
responsibility, to advocate for their well-being and
protection, and to educate our local communities about issues
affecting immigrant peoples.
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REMINDERS
Assembly
Saturday Highlights Video now posted on the
Synod Web site
Please check out the
wonderful video overview of Saturday happenings at synod
assembly. If you haven't seen the other assembly videos, you
have missed a treat. A special "thank you" to David
Carver, a professional videographer, member of
Grace-Hendersonville, and member of the NC Synod
Communications Committee. He volunteered his time and gifts
for this synod video ministry.
St. Mark-Claremont uses faith chests at
milestone moments
Wondering what to do with the faith
chest your congregation received at assembly? Use it as a
pattern and model for others. Picture here are St.
Mark-Claremont families receiving their faith chests at Holy
Baptism, a great milestone moment. The interim pastor is
Pr. Pierson Shaw. Where do you think the candles, certificates
and other mementos will be
going?
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RESOURCES
Idea for old
LBWs
An idea from e-mail this week: Contact
chaplains at jails or prisons; they may be happy to have old
worship books.
Resources for Bible
study and Bible storiesCheck out the new
blue box on the Heilig Resource
Center web page. You'll find a list of resources to help
with Bible study and Bible stories. Watch the VeggieTales
version of the story of Gideon or engage in a study of
selected Psalms. Call or e-mail the center today to preview
any of the resources listed or find out about the many other
options available. The Heilig
Resource Center is a ministry of the NC Synod, which
provides free-loan resources to congregations and leaders
across the synod. It is located in the synod office in
Salisbury. E-mail Catherine
Fink (cfink@nclutheran.org) or call 704-633-4861;
800-560-7292.
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GRAMMAR TIPS
North Carolina,
N.C. or NC
When abbreviating the
name of our state, North Carolina, in text, use N.C., except
when including an address. You would then use the postal
abbreviation NC. Proper grammar says that you should always
spell
out the name in text and not use the abbreviation,
but in this "hurry-scurry world" we can't resist
abbreviating, especially in e-mail and online writing, use the
rule above. In formal letters, articles to be published and
documents, spell it out.
Examples: All N.C. residents should send their requests
to: NC Synod, 1988 Lutheran Synod Dr., Salisbury, NC
28144.
I just had to resend this and correct my "grammar goof"
enjoyed by so many of you. My number one grammar mistake is
using "there" instead of the possessive "their." I know better
but my fingers seem to only type "there." In proofing my eyes
don't seem to notice the difference and of course spell check
has no mercy. --Donna Prunkl
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DID YOU KNOW? 
The synod office staff
team sets aside a time for devotions every
Wednesday morning at 10:00 in the Herndon Chapel. They pray
for each other, congregations, rostered and lay leaders,
individuals and the varied needs of the synod, ELCA and
world. It's restorative and reminds the team that Christ
is at the center of all they do. You are welcome to send
prayer requests or to attend.
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