Nominations and Elections
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 Communication Day
Are you a parish communicator? If you are involved with communicating the mission, news, and stories of your parish - whether that be via newsletter (electronic or print), a website, social media, taking photos, or by other means - then the answer is yes! Never has this work been more important or more difficult to keep up with. And so you are invited for a day of workshops and fellowship to improve skills, share ideas, and network with other communicators. Join Mercer School of Theology in their upcoming Parish Communication Day on April 9.
 LSA Leaders Conference: Effective Employment Practices
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget passed last week and it includes changes to minimum wage and paid family leave requirements. All of these changes go into effect over the next several years, but you can be prepared now by joining Lutheran School Association's upcoming leaders conference on effective employment practices with Mindy Stern. This important event is open to all school leaders, pastors, and board members; you don't need to be a member of LSA to attend. Click here to learn more.
Patterns for Proclamation
Join the Consultation on Common Texts, the ecumenical body responsible for the Revised Common Lectionary, for their annual event. This event on April 25 will be a day filled with rich presentations on preaching and worshiping using different lectionaries, including the one-year, African-American, and to the Narrative Lectionaries. All are welcome. Click here to download the flyer and RSVP.
 Climate Change, Race, and Food: Forging a Just FutureQuadrant One and the Hudson Valley Cooperative invite you for an educational event with internationally renowned scholar Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and local race and food justice organizer Cheryl DeSanctis from Soul Fire Farm, Grafton, NY. The focus will be on what people of faith need to know about environmental injustice and racism in the food system through worship, music, workshop style activities, and presentations. This event is made possible by a Leadership Development Grant. RSVP by April 15. Learn more here.
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Pr. A. David Anglada has been called Program Director for Multicultural Leadership for the Congregational and Synodical Mission unit of the ELCA, effective March 15.
Pr. David Rommereim is retiring as pastor of Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, effective April 17, 2016.
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- For the friends and family of Leslie Johnson, sister of Pr. Justin Johnson, who died in Christ March 22.
- For refugees and those who come to their aid
- For our Anti-Racism Task Force, as they plan trainings for leaders
- 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 Ira Nebrasky, husband of Pastor ElizaBeth Nebrasky, who is undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma
- For ELCA Young Adult in Global Mission Taylor Wiese, serving in South Africa
- For ELCA missionary Robert Kasworm serving in Tanzania
- For Bishop William Gafkjen, the staff and people of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod
- For the care of God's creation
- For the unity of this church and its mission
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