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ministry is alive and well Please browse through the pages pertaining to our upcoming convention, print them off and send them in to the proper address on each form. Our thanks to Dan Glamann of the Central States Synod office for making our pages accessible via the web! Come on, ladies! Print off this information and share it with your friends! Let’s make the 2008 convention attendance soar! Your Cluster Coordinators and Board were challenged to ‘stir things up’ within our organization, come to Springfield and see if they have! Let’s go to Springfield! “BAPTIZED-BLESSED-BELIEVERS” I cordially invite you to attend the 21st annual convention of the Central States Synodical Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, July 25-27, 2008 at the Clarion Hotel in Springfield, Mo. The theme for this year’s gathering is “Baptized-Blessed-Believers.” We will take care of the business of the convention: elections, adopting a budget, and resolutions. There will be worship, workshops, and more. Money will be raised for women and children’s health initiatives via a 4K Walk, Run, Roll. We’ll greet old friends and establish new relationships! Please note that Denise Smith, from Alaska, will represent the Churchwide Board at our convention. Each congregational or intercongregational unit of the Central States Synodical Organization is entitled to one delegate. Enclosed you will find a delegate card that needs to be returned to the registrar by June 1, 2008. A registration form is also enclosed. Please make copies of the form and share them with all the women in your unit. Delegates are required to attend the business sessions of the convention. All women of the Central States Synodical Organization are invited and encouraged to attend. Please bring your family and friends. The cost of a full
time delegate or a full-time participant is: Rooms: $75 plus tax a night, per room -- 4 people allowed per room. I look forward to seeing all of you in July in Springfield, Mo. Iris Turnbull,
President Download as PDF file: Convention cover letter Convention Materials
Baptized-Blessed-Believers
Download as PDF file: Denise Smith 600 Prayer Shawls
- Let’s "git’r done!" I heard about prayer shawls for the first time twenty years ago, when as part of the Central States Synodical Board of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (W of the ELCA), I had the opportunity to attend a One in Christ speakers bureau event in the Portland, Oregon area with a focus on Native American Women. There I learned that the same shawl that provided warmth around one’s shoulders could also become the setting of an altar when draped upon a table or even upon the ground. Before heading home, I purchased a Pendleton wool throw for my parents, with the understanding that as I made my presentations, I would be using it as my prayer shawl! The Dorcas Circle of my church, Salem, Axtell KS, sponsors an ecumenical gathering of knitters/crocheters who make 7" X 9" pieces that when 49 of them are stitched together, make a “Warm Up America” afghan. We have given Afghans to a local transition house and to Good Shepherd Mission in Kansas City. Go to www.warmupamerica.com for more information. Many of attendees of our Hutchinson convention brought yarn, that is used for a prison ministry, as inmates fashion shawls for individuals in care homes. If you have those extra skeins of yarn buried away in a drawer, now would be the time to dig it out and put it to good use! A trip to the local thrift shop is usually a good source for yarn! Our Warm Up America group seems to have a never ending supply. Many of you have contacted me asking the purpose of the prayer shawls. In speaking with Pastor Schnaath, I found that attendees/guests to the Assembly will each receive a shawl and all extra prayer shawls will be going to Lutheran Campus Ministry! Resources
especially for women --------------------------------------------------------------- Listening To
God: A Guide To Discernment Listening to God would make a great gift for a special woman in your life. Order through Augsburg Fortress: www.augsburgfortress.org or 800-328-4648. $6.95; ISBN 6-0001-9376-9. Purpose Statement for Women of the ELCA:
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Central States Women
of the ELCA
...are
gathering in Springfield. Missouri, July 25-27, 2008, for the 21st annual
convention of the Central States Women of the ELCA. Denise Smith (photo
at left) from Alaska, will represent the churchwide board of the Women
of the ELCA at this convention. Gather a carload of women and head to
Springfield this summer! See you there!