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South Wisconsin District - LCMS
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Witness Always
"For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree."
1 John 5:7-8 (ESV)
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LEIF Update Please share the email you received last Friday regarding LEIF updates with your staff .
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New Call Documents The call documents for ordained & commissioned ministers have been updated to reflect current benefit information. If you will be issuing a call, please download the new documents. You will need to contact Robin for the new password. Call documents will not be accepted in the old version. ______________________
District office closed
Monday, January 20 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
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My life is a message.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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CONTEST - Top Teacher Photo Contest... Upload your photo showing how your Lutheran school teachers have made an impact in your child's faith, school or community by January 19, 2014. Then, from January 20-26, come back once a day to vote. On January 27 (during National Lutheran Schools Week), we will announce the winners! We are awarding funds to Lutheran schools that have teacher(s) who are excellent educators. Multiple entries per school are accepted. Enter a photo of one teacher or a group picture. Remember to invite your family, friends and congregation members to vote as well! One vote per person per day.THE PRIZE The winning photos are determined by the number of votes cast for the submitted photo. Prizes will be awarded as follows:1st Place: $250 2nd Place: $150 3rd Place: $100. Questions can be sent to Mark L'Heureux or Diana Raasch.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Ted Kober, President of Ambassadors of Reconciliation
Registration
Questions - contact Barb Slak
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NLSA Schools Needing To Reapply
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 The following schools accreditation expires in August 2015.
St. John, Berlin
First Immanuel, Cedarburg
Lake Country, Hartland
LUMIN
Trinity, Rantoul
St. Peter's, Reedsburg
St. John, Portage
St. John, Racine
Immanuel, Sheboygan
St. Paul, West Allis
St. John, West Bend
Complete the NLSA application and send it to the District office for Mark's signature, along with a check for $350 made payable to National Lutheran School Accreditation. |
WCRIS Leadership Conference
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The WCRIS website has been updated with the conference schedule as well as information about the convention center and lodging.
The conference schedule can be found at: http://www.wcris.org/2014ConferenceSchedule.cfm.
Information about the convention center and lodging (including directions, reservation information, group hotel rate and hotel amenities) can be found here: http://www.wcris.org/facilityandlodging.cfm.
The 2014 Leadership Conference will feature a special intensive workshop with internationally renowned keynote speaker Dr. Robyn Jackson.
This conference is Title IIA eligible. It is helpful to register in groups of 2 or more - attending as a team will help build the learning capacity of your school by:
- empowering teachers
- increasing collaboration and shared best practice
- sharing decision-making in planning professional learning
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Wheat Ridge
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Here are some links that I think you'll be interested in. Click the logo on the left - it will give you a very quick tour of what Wheat Ridge is about and get you linked to all the grants and other resources.
Three major kinds of grants are available. Grants rage from $1,000 to $50,000 for up to three years. Our newest grant option is Burst Projects - up to $5000 available, focused on young adults initiating creative projects in health and human care ministries. Age range is roughly 20-35 years old.
Also of interest is a new way of doing grants around crowd funding called WeRaise The site is live now and will have a public launch sometime early in 2014.
Wheat Ridge can also provide a great chapel offering projects, our Inspire project has great support material written by Lutheran Educators. I'd love to talk more if you do a District wide chapel offering project. I'm also available to lead chapels, as schedule permits, to support those efforts.
If you have any questions about Wheat Ridge, please contact:
Mark Schoepp
Wheat Ridge Ministries
Director of Congregation Engagement
mark@wheatridge.org
drluke@wheatridge.org
503-551-5055
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KINDLE Servant Workshop
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Would you like to gain a better understanding of what it means to embrace Sabbath Living?
Would you like to grow personally in areas such as witnessing, praying, studying scriptures and serving?
Are you interested in getting a small taste of what KINDLE is about?
If you said "yes" to any of these questions, then please consider registering yourself and 2 or 3 leaders from your church for the KINDLE Servant Leader Workshop.
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Private School Tuition Tax Deduction
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Please share this information with your parents
Eligibility - parents of K-12 aged children registered in any one of Wisconsin's fine private Christian schools.
Timeframe - The tax deduction applies in 2014. Checks made out before January 1 would not be eligible for the deduction.
Flyer
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CAPE Outlook
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School Rummage Sale
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St . Peter's, Waterford - Saturday, January 18
8-11 am
Due to our K-8 school that closed a couple of years ago we had an abundance of supplies, curriculum and other items. There was such an overabundance that we are no longer able to use everything. The rummage will be help Saturday, January 18th from 8am-11am. St. Peter's Rainbow Preschool 145 S 6th St. Waterford, WI. Sale is cash only and we are not able to deliver bigger items. List of items. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. director@stpeterswaterford.com 262-534-6066
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LCEF Scholarships Available
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 $1,000 LCEF Scholarships Available!
Apply before February 28, 2014 at lcefuppermidwest.org/scholarships
Seven $1,000 LCEF upper Midwest districts scholarships will be awarded this year, one per district. Your college choice can be anywhere... As long as it is accredited. Awards are not based upon the type of degree you are pursuing. Students must be a current LCMS member of one of the following districts - Iowa Districts East, Iowa District West, Minnesota North, Minnesota South, North Dakota North Wisconsin and South Wisconsin
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Do not wait until the last minute to apply; a one page essay and letters of recommendation are required. Graduating seniors and current college students should visit lcefuppermidwest.org/scholarships for qualification details and application.
Who wins? Want timely updates on deadlines? Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/LCEFuppermidwest or follow our tweets @LCEFMariaH.
Questions? Contact Maria.Hendrickson@lcef.org. |
| Upcoming Events |
2014
January 15-17 - POLS Conference, St. John's, Orange, CA January 26 - Educator of the Year awards dinner January 26-February 1 - National Lutheran Schools Week
February 7 - WCRIS Leadership Conference, Oshkosh Convention Center February 13-15 - LEA National Administrators Conference February 14 - Firm Foundations, Martin Luther High School, Greendale
February 22 - Passionate Believers Conference, Divine Redeemer, Hartland
March 1 - Servant Leader Workshop, Brookfield Lutheran Church, Brookfield
April 14 - Teaching the Faith Workshop - Northwest Lutheran School, Milwaukee April 27 - Teaching the Faith Workshop - Trinity-Freistadt, Mequon May 4 - Teaching the Faith Workshop - Blessed Savior, New Berlin June 9-13 - Lutheran Church Workers Couples Retreat, Heartland Retreat Center, Trego, WI
2015
November 12-13 - NWD/SWD Teachers' Conference, Kalahari Resort, WI Dells
Click on the link for Registering for any of these events. If the event is not open yet, we will communicate when it will be.
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Passionate Believers...Confessing Christ!
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Mark L'Heureux
Education Executive
The South Wisconsin District does not endorse businesses that are not under the umbrella of
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
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