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Rise Up, MNYS!

Next week over 300 youth, adult leaders, and volunteers will be headed from our synod to Detroit, MI for the ELCA Youth Gathering. The Gathering is a triennial event that takes place over five days - Wednesday to Sunday - and includes opportunities for worship, service, fellowship, study, and holy play. Here are ways to support those attending:

  • Pray: If your congregation is sending a group, use the Commissioning Litany as a part of your liturgy. We encourage all congregations to include this prayer in the coming weeks:

We ask you, God: grant peace and safety to those attending the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering and bless them, form them by your hand, guide them by your Word, renew them by your Spirit, protect them as they travel, make their ways safe, and their homecomings joyful. Amen. 

What are you being called to?

Now in our second year of implementation, our Strategic Plan asks congregations, individuals, and organizations: What are you being called to do "for such a time as this?"

In its first year, the Synod Council approved $200,000 of funding for Capital Improvement Challenge Grants. Congregations were awarded matching grants for roof work, new windows, parking lots, repointing, masonry, boilers, bathroom renovations, kitchen renovations, and chair lifts. Download the new application and submit before September 15.

            We're also putting up to $50,000 every year into Leadership Development Grants for you to gain new skills for ministry in our changing world. These grants provide a special focus on supporting programs that will specifically nurture education, training, and formation for leadership skills and qualities that complement the aims of the Claimed, Gathered, and Sent Strategies. Click here for more information

Out & About

 

Warm welcomes 

Bishop Rimbo and the synod staff appreciate the welcome hospitality provided by our local congregations as we visit and help proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ and share the mission of our ministries each week. In the past two weeks, our staff was warmly received by the following congregations: Cross of Christ, Babylon; Oceanside, Oceanside; Faith, Syosset; Holy Trinity, Brooklyn; Epiphany, Laurelton; Resurrection, St. Albans; St. Johns, Bellmore; New Hope, Jamaica; and Saint Peter's, Manhattan. Thank you!
Synod Assembly News

 

Synod Assembly 2016

The dates for the next assembly have been set. The 2016 Synod Assembly will take place May 19-21 at the Melville Marriott. Please save the date. 
Our Wider Church

 

Apply for an ELCA Domestic Hunger Grant

The application process for ELCA Domestic Hunger Grants for 2016-2017 will close on July 10, 2015. Domestic Hunger Grants are funded by ELCA World Hunger. Grant projects are generally in one the areas of relief, development community organizing or advocacy. For more information, including changes in the grant cycle, visit the ELCA Domestic Hunger Grant page

Job Corner

 

Musician needed

Hope Lutheran Church in Selden, Long Island is seeking a musician (guitarist) to lead and accompany their Saturday Night Live services each week beginning in September (5 pm). Many teens attend this service. For information contact Pastor Richard O. Hill or visit their website at www.hopeluth.com.  

 

Director of Music position available

Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran is seeking a professional organist to begin mid-August 2015.  Must have experience with church liturgy, playing hymns and directing an amateur choir. Ideal candidate will have an advanced music degree and be familiar with playing a Casavant pipe organ. The candidate must be available for one weekly Sunday service and one weekly rehearsal, plus a number of additional church services throughout the year as is appropriate to the church season. Salary to begin at $15,000 but is commensurate with experience. Please contact Christy Flaim (516-676-1417) for more information and an on-site audition.

Transitions

 

Pastor J. Elise Brown resigned as pastor of Advent, Manhattan, effective August 31.  Pastor Brown has accepted a full-time consulting position with Kairos and Associates.

 

Pastor Patrick "Wes" Poole has resigned from the roster of the ELCA, effective June 15.

 

Pastor Dennis Walker is retiring from Holy Cross, Commack, effective July 1.

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We're Praying
  • For the friends and family of the nine shooting victims in Charleston, SC 
  • For our partners in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land as they live amidst the continued Israeli-Palestinian conflict  
  • For health and healing for Pr. Jerry Gaeta, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer 
  • For health and healing for Ira Nebrasky, husband of Pastor ElizaBeth Nebrasky, who is undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma 
  • For ELCA Young Adult in Global Mission David Matyi, serving in Argentina and Uruguay 
  • For ELCA missionaries Lucas Peters, serving in Thailand 
  • For Bishop David Zallmer, the staff and people of the South Dakota Synod 
  • For the care of God's creation 
  • For the unity of this church and its mission 

 


This e-letter is intended to convey information from synod staff, committees or auxiliaries, and we reserve the right to edit all submissions. All items must be received by the Friday before publication. Items normally run for two weeks. Send submissions to Rebekah Thornhill.