Northwestern Ohio Synod http://nwos-elca.org Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:54:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 THE EXPERIENCE TOURING CHOIR – First, Findlay – June 19th http://nwos-elca.org/2013/06/the-experience-touring-choir-first-findlay-june-19th/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/06/the-experience-touring-choir-first-findlay-june-19th/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:52:30 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=4204 The Experience will be at First Lutheran in Findlay

109 E. Lincoln Street, Findlay, OH
419.422.2638

Wednesday, June 19th, at 7:00 pm

THE EXPERIENCE TOURING CHOIR is a performing ensemble of approximately 90 high school youth from Christ Lutheran (ELCA) Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their purpose and mission is to Tell the Story of Christ to others through original drama, choreography and contemporary Christian songs. The students have worked on eve-ry aspect of the production over a period of five months meeting weekly for 90 minutes.

Check out the FLYER for more information

 

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/06/the-experience-touring-choir-first-findlay-june-19th/feed/ 0 Assembly Report 2013 http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/assembly-report-2013/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/assembly-report-2013/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 19:45:48 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=4195 Read more »]]> One in Christ…yet Always Being Made New!  Where?  At the foot of the cross…that was the focus and theme of the Northwestern Ohio Synod’s (NWOS) Assembly 2013.  Our Oneness in Christ was celebrated in many ways including: the attendance and participation of a 7-person delegation from the NWOS Companion Synod, the Dodoma Diocese in Tanzania, led by Assistant to the Bishop Samwel Mshana who presided at the Sending Eucharist; a special “Gentle Worship” service that opened Assembly – an experience provided by the NWOS Disabilities Awareness Task Force and Emanuel, Marion, OH as a service created for people and families living with Autism, hearing and visual challenges, mental illness, etc.; and the passing of two significant resolutions for intentional ministries with People Living with Mental Illness and People Living in Poverty. Keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. Stephen Bouman, ELCA helped voting members dwell at the foot of the cross while surprise visitors and clowns Daisy, Skittles, and their friends from St. Mark, Toledo brought a word of Grace to that dwelling place.  With joy this Assembly dedicated a new altar and NWOS paraments and celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania along with the ELCA’s 25th Anniversary!  Through song, prayers, business, fun, reunions, and making new friends, vendor displays, resources, ingathering of food and donations for the NWOS four agencies: Lutheran Social Services of NW Ohio, Filling Homes, Lutheran Homes Society and Lutheran Home of Mercy, Bishop Marcus Lohrmann and this synod experienced a Oneness in Christ and reminder that together, at the foot of the cross, we are Always Being Made New!

Assembly Report 2013

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/assembly-report-2013/feed/ 0 Practice Discipleship Rereat – August 9-10 http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/practice-discipleship-rereat-august-9-10/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/practice-discipleship-rereat-august-9-10/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 19:00:57 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=4193 Read more »]]> Preparing youth leaders to practice intentional youth ministry in their congregations.

Northwestern Ohio Synod Youth Leaders are invited August 9-10 (Friday thru Saturday) to come to Trinity Lutheran Church in Findlay (935 W. Bigelow Ave.) for a retreat and a series of workshops related to Youth Ministry.

 

The objectives of this time together are:

  • to support one another in prayer and conversation
  • gain a host of new perspectives on youth ministry today
  • continue to build a lasting network for youth ministry leaders throughout the Northwestern Ohio Synod.
  • The main goal is what the goal for youth ministry has always been (or what it has always needed to be):
    to empower young people to participate in God’s action in life and in the world.  

We will start Friday night, August 9th at 6pm with dinner. We’ll continue through 10pm on Friday with worship, games, and a workshop. (Bring a sleeping bag and pillow if you’d like to stay the night at the church!) We’ll continue Saturday August 10th at 9am and continue through 4pm with more workshops, worship and games.

 

We’re asking for $15 to help cover food costs for the weekend ($25 if you register after August 2nd.)

 

Please rsvp to Cassie Yeager (Epiphany Lutheran Church, Toledo) at c.yeager317@gmail.com or Pastor Matt Wheeler (First Lutheran Church, Galion) at pastor@galionfirstlutheran.org.

 

MATT WHEELER’S FULL PDF INVITATION

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/practice-discipleship-rereat-august-9-10/feed/ 0 Lutheran Homes Society Partners with UTMC for Wound Care http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/lutheran-homes-society-partners-with-utmc-for-wound-care/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/lutheran-homes-society-partners-with-utmc-for-wound-care/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 17:11:17 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=4180 Read more »]]>             TOLEDO, May 29, 2013 – Complex wound care management is provided on a day-to-day basis in such skilled nursing facilities as the four long-term care campuses of Lutheran Homes Society (LHS). In order to better serve the needs of residents, LHS has partnered with the Division of Vascular/Endovascular and Wound Care Surgery at The University of Toledo (UT); UT Physicians group; and The University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center to provide this service within the facilities.

“There is a large demand for wound care services,” stated Dr. Munier Nazzal, FACS, Director of the UTMC Wound Care Center. “This program will enable us to provide help and support to these patients with chronic, non-healing wounds. Our goal is to make the LHS facilities into recognized centers of excellence for wound care.”

READ FULL News Release

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“The church is to be a movement, a force, a centrifugal force, constantly being propelled out into the world with the good news of the kingdom of God and of Jesus Christ,” Schaeffer said. “That’s what we were created to be, and that’s what the church was intended to be.”

click on this link Threshhold in the News to read the entire article!

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/threshold-ministry-in-the-news/feed/ 0 Trinity Seminary Summer Courses http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/trinity-seminary-summer-courses/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/trinity-seminary-summer-courses/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 13:11:33 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=3572 Trinity Seminary has some great Summer Term 2013 Learning Opportunities
Check out
ONE WEEK COURSES
June 3 – 7
THREE WEEK COURSES
June 3 – 21
SPECIAL IMMERSION TRAVEL COURSES
LANGUAGE COURSE
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY: HEALTHY CONGREGATIONS
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY: MINDFUL CALLING

Trinity Summer Term Brochure

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/trinity-seminary-summer-courses/feed/ 0 Are We Still Amazed? An Orthodox Easter Message http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/are-we-still-amazed-an-orthodox-easter-message/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/are-we-still-amazed-an-orthodox-easter-message/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 13:07:23 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=3570 Read more »]]> Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated Easter on Sunday, May 5, a full five weeks after the Western Christian Easter was celebrated. Some years it is like this, some years we celebrate on the same day. The confusion caused by this lack of unity results in a fractured procalamation of the gospel message to the world. The National Council of Churches has written about the need for the churches to reconsider this division and has promoted an ecumenical solution previously affirmed by churches of both traditions. With the west still in the Easter season for a few more weeks, this message is offered for reflection by all Christians.

Are We Still Amazed?

An Easter Reflection by Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos
National Council of Churches USA

                     

“So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.” (Mark 16:8.)

“But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.” (Luke 24:12)

In both Mark and Luke, we read how Jesus’ followers were amazed at the news of the resurrection.

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, to be amazed is to be surprised, astonished, astounded, bowled over, dumfounded, flabbergasted, floored, rocked, shocked, startled, stunned, stupefied, and thunderstruck. Its archaic definitions include being bewildered or perplexed. When you take all of these definitions together, you get a pretty good idea of what it means to be amazed.

How many of us are still genuinely amazed when we hear the gospel proclamation that “Christ is Risen!”?   READ MORE:  Are We Still Amazed Full Devotion

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/are-we-still-amazed-an-orthodox-easter-message/feed/ 0 Lutheran Men in Mission Spring Retreat http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/lutheran-men-in-mission-spring-retreat/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/lutheran-men-in-mission-spring-retreat/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 13:02:16 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=3568 May 11, 2013
8:30 Registration

Opening Eucharist

Companion Synod and Tanzanian Trip Presentations

Christ, Carey
116 W. Findlay Street

LMM Retreat Flyer

 

 

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/05/lutheran-men-in-mission-spring-retreat/feed/ 0 2013 Assembly Theme Song http://nwos-elca.org/2013/04/2013-assembly-theme-song/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/04/2013-assembly-theme-song/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:40:26 +0000 Amanda McClellan http://nwos-elca.org/?p=3562 We encourage you and your congregations to sing this song during your service – Please pray for the Assembly Gathering, which takes place on May 17-18.

We Are One in Christ

]]> http://nwos-elca.org/2013/04/2013-assembly-theme-song/feed/ 0 St. Mark, Toledo Golf Scramble – May 26 http://nwos-elca.org/2013/04/st-mark-toledo-golf-scramble-may-26/ http://nwos-elca.org/2013/04/st-mark-toledo-golf-scramble-may-26/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:28:35 +0000 administrator http://nwos-elca.org/?p=3510 Join St. Mark, Toledo for a fun-filled day of golf that benefits

“Youth in Mission”
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Chippewa Gold Club
Shotgun Start at 1:30 pm
Dinner to follow golf

Sponsorship Form

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