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Issue: # 224
June 3, 2010
In This Issue
Southeastern Synod Assembly
Day 1 celebrates 65 years
Safe and Healthy Families Domestic Violence Training Information
Synod Calendar
Assembly 2010
June 4, 5 & 6, 2010
Chattanooga, TN 
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Southeastern Synod Assembly 
The 2010 Southeastern Synod Assembly will be June 4, 5 & 6, 2010 at the Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street, Chattanooga, TN  37402. 
 
Thanks to all of you who pre-registered online. On-line pre-registration is now closed but you can still register on-site at the Assembly.  
 
Assembly materials are posted to the synod website.  Please go to http://www.elca-ses.org/Assembly.html to view. These reports reflect the ministry we have done together over the past year and the mission partnership we look forward to in the year to come. To make it easier for you to access these reports we have divided them into chapters.  There is no need to print the materials, hard copies will be given out at Assembly registration. 
 
Updates will be posted to the Assembly webpage, http://www.elca-ses.org/Assembly.html and the synod blog, http://www.elca-ses.blogspot.com/  during the Assembly weekend.
 
The Synod office will be closed June 3 & 4 for the assembly and June 7-9 following the assembly. If there is an emergency, please call 404-589-1977 for instructions.
 
Please keep all voting members and visitors to the Southeastern Synod Assembly in your prayers!
To celebrate 65 years, 'Day 1' focuses on Faith and Global Hunger
As a way to commemorate its 65th anniversary of weekly broadcasts, the "Day 1" national radio program hosted by Peter Wallace will air a special four-part series beginning June 13 focusing on "Faith & Global Hunger" in support of the Millennium Development Goals. Four prominent leaders will address the issue, and a wide range of audio, video, and text resources for individuals and church groups will be available on a special website at http://hunger.day1.org.
 
The speakers are:
W. Hodding Carter III, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and State Department spokesman under President Carter, journalist, author, former president of the Knight Foundation, Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, speaking on the scope of the problem of world hunger today (airdate June 13).
 
The Rev. Dr. Barbara K. Lundblad, the Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Lutheran clergy, former pastor and frequent Day1 preacher, on the biblical foundation for serving the poor (airdate June 20).
 
The Rev. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World since 1991, Lutheran clergy, former World Bank economist, author of books and articles on Christian faith, economics, poverty and hunger, on specific ways of addressing the problem of poverty and hunger, particularly through the Millennium Development Goals (airdate June 27).
 
The Right Rev. Michael Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, issuing a call to serve the poor, individually and corporately (airdate July 4). 
 
Then, on September 12th, the series will conclude with a fifth presentation--the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, will deliver a special message on Hunger in the Twenty-First Century.  Please mark your calendars and plan to join this exploration of world hunger.
 
To find a Day1 radio broadcast in your area visit, http://day1.org/stations or visit http://day1.org to listen on-line.
 
Safe and Healthy Families Domestic Violence Training Information
Is your congregation interested in making your church and community
safer places for families by ending domestic violence?
 
You are invited to apply for a three-day "Lutheran Advocates for Safe
Families" training session. Choose from one of two dates:
Monday, September 13 through Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, October 7 through Saturday, October 9, 2010
 
The locations are forthcoming.
 
Applications are available online. Applications are due June 15, 2010,
to Susan Hayes at the Lutheran Community Foundation.
Domestic violence has long been a concern for the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) as a church body. Several years ago, the
Lutheran Community Foundation heard from its donors that domestic
violence was a top concern in their communities. Since then, the
Lutheran Community Foundation has contracted with Faith Trust
Institute, a leader in faith-based domestic violence resources and
training, to provide education and materials to Lutheran
congregational leaders like you.
 
The Lutheran Community Foundation is making the training session and materials available at no cost, and they also are able to provide some
financial assistance for travel and lodging, upon acceptance to the
training via the application.
 
handsThe ELCA Justice for Women program has collaborated with and supported the work by connecting the Lutheran Community Foundation with ELCA congregations and providing Lutheran-specific resources to accompany the faith-based training materials.
 
If you have questions, please contact Susan at [email protected] 
or Mikka McCracken with the ELCA Justice for Women program at
[email protected].
Synod Calendar
June 3     Synod Council meeting
June 4-6  Synod Assembly
June 7-9  Synod office closed 
June 7-12 Faith Alive Campfirmation Camp-Lutheridge
June 7-12 Disaster Response Teen Corp Training
June 18-20 Affirm Staff Training
June 20-25 Affirm
June 20-25 Bishop's School
 
View the entire Synod Calendar
 
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