Registration Deadline Extended 

Bishop's Convocation

Friday, September 14 (Holy Cross Day)

Trinity Lutheran Church

Camp Hill, PA

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

An event for rostered and lay leaders

Registration deadline has been extended to midnight, September 9!

Read more and then register online.

This event has been subsidized by grants from the Mission Investment Fund, ELCA and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

Service of Ordination Scheduled for September 7

Caitlin Glass will be ordained into the ministry of word and sacrament on Friday, September 7, 2012, at 7:00 PM, at the Lutheran Church of the Abiding Presence, Burke, VA.  Lutheran Church of the Abiding Presence is a congregation of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod.  Caitlin has been called to serve St. Stephen Lutheran Church, New Kingstown, PA.

Bishop B. Penrose Hoover will preach and preside at the rite of ordination.  Bishop Richard Graham of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod will serve as the presiding minister for the liturgy.  Rostered leaders are invited to vest and process.  The color of the day is red.

Click here for directions to Abiding Presence Church.

Congregation Connections

Choral Concert

Wednesday, September 19

7:00 PM

Christ Lutheran Church

75 E. High Street

Elizabethtown, PA

Seventh Annual Prayer Shawl Dedication

GermanFest

11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Saturday, September 8

 

A little piece of Germany will come to Harrisburg as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Saviour hosts its annual GermanFest! The event features authentic German food, free children's games, bake sale, silent auction, the Egerlander German Band, accordion music and the Popcorn Hat Players. A 9/11 Prayer of Remembrance Service will be held at 10:30 AM at the church. For more details, visit the church website or call the church office at 717.545.9992. The church is located at 420 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg, PA.

 

Yard Sale (and refreshments!)

Calvary Lutheran Church

9 N. Main Street

Dover, PA

Saturday, September 22

8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

 

For more information, visit the church website.

 

Make a World of Difference

Sponsor an ELCA Missionary

Missionary Sponsorship Reception

Monday, September 10

4:00 PM

St. Paul Lutheran Church

201 S. Baltimore Street

Dillsburg, PA

Learn how you can work "hand in hand" with our global neighbors!  The Rev. Lanny Westphal of the churchwide staff will speak about new developments in the ELCA missionary program and share how ELCA missionaries are making a difference around the world.  This program will be helpful for congregations currently sponsoring an ELCA missionary as well as congregations new to missionary sponsorship. 

No advance registration is required.  For more information, contact the Rev. Cliff Eshbach at ceshbach@lss-elca.org

St. Paul, Dillsburg, is located south of Mechanicsburg off of Route 15.  Parking is available adjacent to the church.  Light refreshments will be served.

Service of Installation in Boiling Springs

Interfaith Remembrance Celebration

Youth and Family Ministry Opportunities

Children, Youth and Family

Faith Formation Conference

November 16-17, 2012

Zion Lutheran Church

York, PA

Is your congregation looking to strengthen faith formation with children and families?

This two-day conference will feature practical and theologically strong tools for creating congregational ministries that equip adults and children as partners in the faith formation process. And, it's affordable! The $25 registration fee includes presentations and conversations with the teaching team from Vibrant Faith Ministries, lunches, and a dessert reception. Register online now...

Save the Dates for 2013 Mission Trips!

2013 is going to be a great year for LutheranHANDS! Visit the website and learn more about expanded mission trip opportunities.

Alive, Alive Registration Deadline - September 16

Join youth in grades 6-8, and their congregational advisors who gather in intentional Christian community at Camp Nawakwa each fall to pray, learn and grow in faith, worship, and play.  "Alive, Alive" is scheduled for September 28-30, 2012.  Visit the event page and learn more.

100 Wells Tour to Stop in Gettysburg

St. James Lutheran Church

Sunday, October 7

3:00 PM

David Scherer (Agape), Rachel Kurtz and Lost & Found, are out on the road this fall as part of a post-Youth Gathering concert tour called The 100 Wells Tour. The tour supports ELCA World Hunger's 100 Wells Challenge, a ministry designed to help dig wells to make potable drinking water available in one hundred villages, where drinking water is scarce. Admission is $5.00 per person.  It is suggested that congregational groups register early as there will be limited seating.  Read more...

You Are Invited!

St. Barnabas Center 2nd Annual Recognition Gala

Saturday, September 29

4:00 PM - Silent Auction

5:00 PM - Cash bar

6:00 PM - Dinner

Harrisburg Area Community College Wildwood Conference Center

St. Barnabas Center for Ministry will celebrate it 19th year with a Recognition Gala.  Join the celebration and recognition of the Rev. Dr. Guy Edmiston and the Rt. Rev. Charlie McNutt, founding bishops of the St. Barnabas Center.

Tickets are $45 per person.  Learn more and order your tickets in advance.

Carings and Sharings is the e-newsletter of the Lower Susquehanna Synod. Its purpose is the sharing of news and events which raise up the mission and ministry of the synod and ELCA in our congregations, our synod, and the broader church. It is not intended to be an endorsement of every activity. Comments about this newsletter may be sent to Pam Drenner, editor, pdrenner@lss-elca.org.