A big THANK YOU to all who helped set up the undercroft and move items from the garage in preparation for the summer fair. This week many volunteers have begun sorting and pricing and donations keep coming! If any additional parishioners or friends would like to help in any way they would be most welcome... around 9am in the undercroft! Thank you.

On June 22 there is a single 9AM worship service followed by an "everything Lutheran" forum led by Mark U. Edwards, Jr.

Mark U. Edwards, Jr., became Professor of the History of Christianity at HDS in 1987, after teaching at Wellesley College and Purdue University. He was at HDS until July 1994, when he became the ninth president of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 2000 Edwards stepped down from the St. Olaf presidency and moved to New Hampshire. He returned to HDS in May 2003. Edwards has written four books and numerous articles on Martin Luther and the German Reformation. The most recent book, entitled Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther (University of California Press, 1994; reprint, Fortress Press, 2005), deals with the West's first "mass media campaign" and Luther's pivotal role as both subject and object in the struggle for the hearts and minds of sixteenth-century Christians. When at St. Olaf, Edwards turned his research interests toward religious perspectives in American higher education. In addition to chapters and articles on this topic, he has published Religion on Our Campuses: A Professor's Guide to Communities, Conflicts, and Promising Conversations (Palgrave, 2006), which asks faculty to ponder the appropriate role of religion on campus. He is now at work on "Academic Culture and Religion (Or Why Faculty Have Problems with Religion)," which explores the development of academic culture in America and its conflicted relationship with religion, especially Christianity. Edwards has taught introductory courses in computer science at Wellesley and Purdue and has developed three commercial software programs, including ForComment, a pioneer "groupware" product that was designated one of the best products of 1987 by PC Magazine. 

"Danny" Florence and Carol Pearson are extending their stay in Florida due to a procedure that Danny needs on June 18th. If anyone would like to send a card or note, please do so to 508 - 44th Avenue E-H7, Bradenton, FL 34203. Thank you.

Beloved parishioner Fenton Friend passed away Sunday 5/25. A service is being planned at All Saints' on Friday, August 15th at 11 a.m. (Note change in date)