Synod / Mission Assembly 2017
A big thank you to Kari Daekle for working with our Assembly planning team to create this logo for our 2017 Synod Assembly:
Make plans to join us April 28-30 as we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. You can book your hotel room online with our group rate. We expect to open event registration in early February.
Instagram update
Instagram has allowed us to update our account. You can now find us @ntnlsynod.
Highlights of “God’s work. Our hands.” 2016
ELCA congregations around the country participated in “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday on September 11, 2016.
Make plans with your congregation to participate this year on or around September 10, 2017.
Featured Resource
If you attended the NT-NL Table Talk in October 2016, our speaker referred to this study a number of times:
The National Congregations Study: Religious Congregations in 21st Century America
What is religion in the United States like today? How do we make sense of it all? The National Congregations Study (NCS) can help.
“Based on three nationally representative surveys of congregations from across the religious spectrum—the first in 1998, the second in 2006-07, and a third in 2012—NCS findings can inform those with deep interests in the state of American congregations as well as those with only a passing interest in religion. Because the same questions have been asked in multiple waves of the NCS, we can also track how congregations have changed over time. These data will keep sociologists and professional religious observers busy for years, and they will inform all manner of religious leaders, from small-town clergy and megachurch pastors to seminary presidents and denomination heads.
There are many other surveys that explore America’s religious landscape. But most other surveys ask people only about their own individual religious beliefs and practices. The NCS, by contrast, examines what people do together in congregations. What communities of faith do together tells us something important about the state of American religion, whatever the specific beliefs and practices of individuals in those communities.”
Save the Date
The Retreat for the Dallas Area Metro North Synodical Women’s Organization has been moved from April 1 to March 25, 2017, still 9am-3pm, at Christ the Servant in Allen, TX.
Where in the world is?
Bishop Gronberg:
- Jan. 2 – Office closed for holiday
- Jan. 4-8 – Bishop’s Academy, Charleston, SC
Pr. Totzke:
- Jan. 2 – Office closed for holiday
- Jan. 3 – Returning from Wisconsin
Upcoming Events
- Jan. 14: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Jan. 14: BRIDGES Book Club: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Jan. 23-25: Tri-Synodical Theological Conference
- Jan. 27-29: NT-NL Junior High Gathering
- Feb. 10-11: Mission / Synod Council Meeting
- Feb. 10-11: Tri-Synodical Lutheran Men in Mission Gathering
- Feb. 11: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Feb. 12-14: 2017 Lutheran Legislative Event
- Feb. 19-21: LSTC Seminary Sampler
- Feb. 25: North Texas Senior Fest 2017 (ALOA)
- Feb. 25: Creation Care and Climate Change (PWT)
- Mar. 3-5: NT-NL Peer Ministry Leadership Training (grades 9-12)
- Mar. 3-5: NT-NL Lenten Retreat (grades 4-6)
- Mar. 11: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Mar. 25: Dallas Area Metro North SWO Retreat
Access our full online Calendar here. Updates made regularly.
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