 Learn about the restoration of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at Saint Peter's, Manhattan in Popular Mechanics. See how the Redeemer, New Paltz is gathering with the community and ecumenical partners for victims of violence in the New Paltz Times.
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Bishop Rimbo and the synod staff appreciate the welcome hospitality provided by our local congregations and partner organizations 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 communities: St. Paul's International, Floral Park; St. Peter's, Springfield Gardens; Emanuel, Pleasantville; Trinity, White Plains; New Hope, Jamaica. Thank you!
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 Fall 2016 Benefit DecisionsNow 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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For Such A Time as This  |
 Youth Ministry Workshop
Made possible by a Leadership Development Grant from our synod's strategic plan, Cross of Christ, Babylon is hosting a Youth Ministry Workshop on September 24. A keynote presentation, "It's Complicated (and sort of not): Ministry with the App Generations", will be given by Dr. Nathan C. P. Frambach from Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. All are welcome. 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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 ELCA Youth Leadership SummitThe ELCA Youth Leadership Summit is an annual gathering of youth and adult leaders from across our church that focuses on leadership development, faith formation and building connections. Watch a video invitation here. Held at Lutheridge Camp and Retreat Center, Asheville, NC, the summit will be November 3 to 6. If you have someone you would like to nominate to attend, please send their name, contact information and a short paragraph explaining the nomination to Dcn. Charlie Germain by September 23. Click here for more information.
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Rev. Jeanine Owens will be installed as pastor of Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, Bronx, NY on October 2 at 4pm.
Pr. Paul Johnsen is retiring as pastor of St. Andrew's, Yorktown Heights, effective July 31, 2016.
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- For health and healing for Chloe Rose Brown, granddaughter of Pastor Brenda Irving, who is undergoing treatment for cancer
- For the friends and family on Florence M. Hoehn, mother of Pastor Rhonda Hoehn, who died in Christ on July 21
- For the strife in Turkey and for peace to be restored
- 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 Chelsi Argabright, serving in the United Kingdom
- For ELCA missionaries Rev. Nathan and Sharonette Bowman serving in Japan
- For Bishop Ray Tiemann, the staff and people of the Southwestern Texas Synod
- For the care of God's creation
- For the unity of this church and its mission
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