CORE Connection - News from Lutheran CORE - July 2010 is now online.
Here is what you can read in this month’s newsletter:
+ Lutheran CORE leaders call for 40 days of prayer preceding historic Convocation.
+ Devotions from 40 days of prayer preceding Convocation.
+ Lutheran CORE Steering Committee finalizes NALC proposal, makes plans for future of Lutheran CORE.
+ Lutheran CORE leaders to attend LWF Assembly.
Lutheran World Federation facing division caused by ELCA actions on sexuality.
+ Register for Convocation and Theological Conference.
+ Ecumenical representatives to attend Convocation.
+ North American Lutheran Church (NALC) DVD coming soon.
+ Congregations can join NALC.
+ National youth gathering set for 2011 in Chicago.
+ Resources for congregational life, pastoral support.
+ Missouri Synod addresses ELCA actions, commits to support confessional Lutheranism.
+ Synod assemblies highlight deep divisions in ELCA Assemblies offer little hope ELCA can restore Biblical teaching on sexuality.
+ Northeastern Iowa Synod Secretary resigns, notes commitment to ordination vows, Confession of Faith.
+ Institute of Lutheran Theology opens online bookstore.
+ "ELCA house is sadly and irreparably divided," a letter by Mark D. Hanson.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Lutheran CORE leaders call for 40 days of prayer preceding historic Convocation
The leaders of Lutheran CORE are inviting Christians around the world to join in 40 days of prayer as Lutherans in North America gather to form the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) and to shape the ongoing ministry of Lutheran CORE as a community of confessing Lutherans regardless of their church body affiliation.
Lutheran CORE’s 2010 Convocation is set for Aug. 26-27 at Grove City Church of the Nazarene in Grove City, Ohio (suburban Columbus).
The 40 days of prayer begin on July 19 and continue through Aug. 27, the day the NALC will be constituted. Devotions and prayers have been prepared for each of the 40 days by members of Lutheran CORE’s Steering Committee and Advisory Council and by pastors and church leaders in North America and around the world.
“The significance of this undertaking to form a new church body must be undergirded by the prayers of God’s people, not only in North America but around the world,” said the Rev. Rebecca Heber, a member of the Lutheran CORE Steering Committee who is coordinating the prayer effort.
“All of us in Lutheran CORE have been encouraged by the support of Christians around the world. We are especially grateful for their prayers and covet their prayers during these 40 days,” Pastor Heber said.
Heber and her husband, the Rev. Bill Heber, are developing Oasis Church, a new NALC mission congregation in the Orlando, Florida, area.
The devotions and prayers will be posted on Lutheran CORE’s website.
Lutheran CORE’s 2010 Convocation is set for Aug. 26-27 at Grove City Church of the Nazarene in Grove City, Ohio (suburban Columbus).
The 40 days of prayer begin on July 19 and continue through Aug. 27, the day the NALC will be constituted. Devotions and prayers have been prepared for each of the 40 days by members of Lutheran CORE’s Steering Committee and Advisory Council and by pastors and church leaders in North America and around the world.
“The significance of this undertaking to form a new church body must be undergirded by the prayers of God’s people, not only in North America but around the world,” said the Rev. Rebecca Heber, a member of the Lutheran CORE Steering Committee who is coordinating the prayer effort.
“All of us in Lutheran CORE have been encouraged by the support of Christians around the world. We are especially grateful for their prayers and covet their prayers during these 40 days,” Pastor Heber said.
Heber and her husband, the Rev. Bill Heber, are developing Oasis Church, a new NALC mission congregation in the Orlando, Florida, area.
The devotions and prayers will be posted on Lutheran CORE’s website.
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