Fall 2016 Benefit Decisions
Now is the time to look ahead and be ready to make important health and other benefit decisions for the fall Annual Enrollment period. In August, Portico will announce 2017 contribution rates and provide budgeting tools. In October, organizations will select one of four ELCA health benefit options for 2017. Finally, in November, sponsored plan members make several 2017 benefit elections. Help your organization be ready to make important benefit decisions by ensuring your defined compensation is up-to-date, so your employees receive correct benefits today and your organization gets more accurate cost estimates for 2017. Also, confirm that the right people have access to your organization's EmployerLink account, especially if your staff or volunteer leaders have changed recently.
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Call for sermons
Are you a young pastor? Are you interested in preaching at the Twelfth Assembly of the LWF? Then and now the message of the Reformation is that we are "Liberated by God's grace." How would you express that in a sermon? The Lutheran World Federation calls for sermons, nurtured by the word of God and communicated through the lens of your experience. Learn more here.
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Invitation to prayer and intentional action
Pr. Lamont Anthony Wells, MNYS Director for Evangelical Mission and National President for the African Descent Lutheran Association released this statement in the wake of the recent tragedies in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Dallas.
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Pr. Kit Robison has been called to serve Grace, Miami Springs, FL (Florida-Bahamas Synod). His start date is August 1.
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- For the strife in Turkey and for peace to be restored
- For the victims in Nice, France and those who come to their aid
- For the victims of the shootings throughout the US and those who come to their aid
- For refugees and those who come to their aid
- For those attending and planning anti-racism trainings throughout our synod
- 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 Jonathan Young, serving in Hungary
- For ELCA missionaries Patrick and Jacqueline Bencke serving in Japan
- For Bishop Michael Rinehart, the staff and people of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod
- For the care of God's creation
- For the unity of this church and its mission
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