RESOURCES FOR LENT.

The Lutheran’s February issue can help you and your congregation begin a study for Lent. Get your conversation started with the cover article, “Falling into the river,” which explains how Lenten spiritual practices invite us to encounter and experience the flow of God’s unspeakable grace. And get 6 ideas for spiritual practices you can do during Lent. (A study guide is available for the cover article at www.thelutheran.org; click on “study guides.” It’s free to print and Web subscribers.) Read “Addition, not subtraction” to learn about 10 things your family can add this Lent. And see what the ELCA presiding bishop has to say about “Finding our place during Lent.”

The Western Iowa Synod, in conjunction with Global Health Ministries of Minnesota, sponsored a shipment of medical equipment and supplies to the Ilembula Lutheran Hospital, Kidugala Medical Center, and a dozen dispensaries in 2006.  A complete surgical suite was outfitted along with a whole array of other life-giving, life-saving items! 

The need, however, for such medical equipment continues in the Southern Diocese.

Today, a generous 2:1 matching fund donation has been granted to Global Health Ministries toward the cost of shipping containers to Lutheran medical facilities in developing nations across the globe.  The Western Iowa Synod and the Southern Diocese ELCT desire to take advantage of this matching-fund opportunity. 

At the "Give Now" option below, please indicate amount and write "medical" in the Companion Synod Projects section.

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Devotional for congregational Leaders

Based on the Acts of the Apostles
Six lessons connect the work of the first century church with that of today.

Devotional Book

Barnabas Uplift News

Spirituality Retreat for Rostered Leaders

Sunday, January 29 thru Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camp

Registration

Academy for Parish Leadership

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Buena Vista University, Storm Lake

Registration

Book of Faith Lenten Journey, Water Marks

February 18 thru March 31, 2012

Western Iowa Synod Congregations

Registration

2012 Festival Assembly

April 27 & 28, 2012

Clay County Regional Events Center, Spencer, Iowa

Gathering for Congregational Secretaries

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Atlantic

2012 ELCA Youth Gathering

The ELCA Youth Gathering is going back to New Orleans in 2012. The dates are July 18th -22nd, 2012. Why? To continue the good work and learn about the new house God is building, "a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God." (Ephesians 2:21b-22)

Learn more about the ELCA Youth Gathering here, or contact Kandi Anderson, Synod Gathering Coordinator.

The mission we share as the Western Iowa Synod is to energize and shepherd congregations and their leaders to tell about Jesus Christ and to serve together in Christ's name.

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