Weekly E-News and Events from the Southeastern Iowa Synod

Southeastern Iowa Synod Weekly E-News 

July 6, 2012  

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In This Issue  

Bike and Build

Young Adults Take Plunge

The Lutheran Magazine

Supreme Court Decision and ELCA Healthcare

Event Registration



Glocal Gathering 
November 2-3, 2012 
 

Synod Calendar 

  

July 12  

Commission for Global Relations

10 am - 3pm 

Southeastern Iowa Synod Center for Ministry
Iowa City, IA  

 

July 14 

Synod Council
10 am

Conference Call

 

July 18-22

2012 ELCA Youth Gathering 

New Orleans, LA 

 

July 27 

Commission for

Evangelical Mission

10 am - 3pm
Southeastern Iowa Synod Center for Ministry
Iowa City, IA

August 4  
Southeastern Women's Organization Gathering
9am - 4 pm
Marshalltown, IA

August 14
FCTE
10am - 2pm
Southeastern Iowa Synod Center for Ministry
Iowa City, IA   
bke      

Bike and Build: An Opportunity to Welcome  

bikebuild

 Deanna Mlynarczyk, member
Seeds of Faith Lutheran Church, Lisbon  

 

It started with a letter in the Outreach Committee's mailbox at church. A young man had written to Seeds of Faith about his organization, Bike and Build. Members from Bike and Build, a group of thirty to forty young people, would be bicycling from the East Coast to the West Coast this summer to raise money and awareness around the issue of affordable housing as well as participate in local building projects.   The young man's letter concluded by asking if we would consider letting them sleep in our church when they pass through Iowa? Would we be willing to perhaps feed them that evening? Oh, and was there a safe place they could store their bicycles?

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Young Adults Take the Plunge into a Deeper Spirituality?  

ELCA Global Mission    

   

Young adults age 18-29 from across the U.S. and Canada will experience voted to experience the global faith community at the ecumenical centers in Geneva, Switzerland, and Taize, France.  


Dates: May 29-June 9, 2013. 

Schedule: For four days, young adults from Canada and the United States will visit the Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches in Geneva to learn how we are connected across the globe through the church. Then they will travel to the Taize community in southern France for a retreat week. There, they will experience firsthand the unique style of worship and music that arises from that community as it welcomes youth from across the globe.    

 

For more information: Contact pastor Eric Carlson, Assistant to the Bishop at carlson@seiasynod.org 

lutheran  

The Lutheran Magazine: July     

Andrea Pohlmann Kulik, Editorial Production Manager 

 

This month's issue of The Lutheran features a number of congregations from the Southeastern Iowa Synod.   

Read the above articles and more at www.thelutheran.org 

healthcare      
The Supreme Court Decision and ELCA Healthcare
Andrea Arey, Regional Representative for Portico Benefit Services 

As media coverage swirls following the Supreme Court decision regarding healthcare, you're probably wondering: "How will all this affect me?"

 

In this 30-minute webinar, Brad Joern, Director of Portico Products & Services, and David Delahanty, Portico's consultant from Towers Watson, will go beyond the headlines and discuss:

  • The Supreme Court's decision
  • Implications for ELCA health plan members and employers
  • Your questions

The free webinar is July 10, 11 - 11:30 a.m. and is for anyone who has, or provides, ELCA health benefits.  Register in advance by clicking this link or pasting it into your browser: https://elcabop.webex.com/elcabop/onstage/g.php?d=922979661&t=a 

 

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