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CONNECT WITH
THE BISHOP
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Looking for opportunities to connect with Bishop Hazelwood?
Check out these upcoming events:
Sunday, Dec. 21
8 a.m.: Trinity, Worcester, MA - morning worship
Friday, Jan. 9
Camp Calumet, Freedom, NH - Forward Leadership Retreat
Sunday, Jan. 11
8 a.m.: First, Portland, ME - morning worship
Saturday, Jan. 17
3 p.m.: Faith, Cambridge, MA - Ordinations
Sunday, Jan. 18
10 a.m.: First, W. Barnstable, MA - Anniversary/morning worship
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A Christmas message
from the Hazelwoods
Bishop Jim Hazelwood and his wife, Pastor Lisa Stoen Hazelwood (St. Andrew, Charlestown, R.I.), offer their Christmas greetings and a few thoughts about how we all can be disruptive (in a good way) this season.
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Christmas/New Year's
Synod Office Hours
PLEASE NOTE: The Synod Office will be closed from Dec. 24-Jan. 1. Any payments received after Dec. 22 may not be processed until the new year.
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Download the new issue of Ekklesia
 The Fall/Winter 2014 edition of Ekklesia, the Synod's quarterly magazine, is now available! We have mailed a copy to every congregation in New England, but you can download your own copy to keep for free! To download, click here or the cover photo to the right.
In this issue:
Trying Something New: Facebook group has become a hub for experiments in synod ministry
Charting a course in Portland: Maine's first-of-its-kind Missional Community is a work in exciting progress
Cover Story - Calumet's new digs: Historic camp introduces some new features, including sparkling, comfortable cabins
Coffeehouse 66: University Lutheran (Cambridge, Mass.) transforms into a community coffee shop
Additionally, we can always use some fresh voices and photographers for Ekklesia! If you're interested in writing or taking photos for the magazine - or if you have something
you would like to submit - contact Communications Director Andy Merritt at amerritt@nesynod.org.
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Synod to elect voting members
for 2016 Churchwide Assembly
At our June 2015 Synod Assembly, we will be electing our voting members for the 2016 Churchwide Assembly, which is to be held Aug. 8-13, 2016, in New Orleans, La.
We will be electing the following positions:
- 1 Clergy who is a person of color and/or with a primary language other than English
- 2 Clergy who have never served as a Voting member at an ELCA Assembly
- 2 Clergy at Large
- 1 Clergy who is the Bishop
- 1 Layperson who is the Synod Vice-President
- 1 Layperson who is the Synod Vice-President Elect
- 1 Male Layperson who has never served as a Voting member at an ELCA Assembly
- 1 Female Layperson who has never served as a Voting member at an ELCA Assembly
- 1 Layperson at Large
- 1 Male Layperson who is person of color and/or with a primary language other than English
- 1 Female Layperson who is person of color and/or with a primary language other than English
- 1 Male Youth/Young Adult
- 1 Female Youth/Young Adult
Nomination forms will be made available shortly. For more information, contact the Synod Council Secretary, Charlene Pederson, 203-435-0313 or attycwright@comcast.net.
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Host an ELCJHL Sunday
 The New England Synod has a companion relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. With the renewed global focus on the region of the Middle East, the Global Mission Team would like to encourage and equip you to hold an ELCJHL Sunday - a chance to pray for and with our Palestinian sisters and brothers and increase our understanding of the region, conflict, people, and peace process. We are suggesting Sunday, January 18 or 25, 2015 as they begin and end the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, but you could also use the provided resources to plan a worship and/or education focus for any Sunday.
To download those resources, and for more information, click below:
Memo from Global Mission Team: PDF | DOCX
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