LUTHERAN HOUSE OF STUDIES

Marilyn Clark, Administrator
1245 New Hampshire -- Lawrence, KS 66047

WHO ATTENDS LHS?

Anyone who has a desire to Explore - Strengthen - Learn

These people include:

  • Lay people seeking personal enrichment;
  • Congregational leaders and teachers;
  • Professional church workers with or without a seminary background;
  • Students in the synod's Parish Ministry Associate program;
  • Rostered persons seeking continuing education.

WORSHIP COURSE


Dates and Times: Saturdays, March 8, 15, 29, and April 5, 12, from 1 - 6 p.m.

Description: This course provides the student with a background for planning and conducting worship. The content covers the parts of worship--both essential and optional--worship planning, and resources available for those planning and conducting worship.

Leader: The Reverend Doctor Peter Rehwaldt. Dr. Rehwaldt received the MDiv from LSTC in 1989 and earned the Ph.D from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. His dissertation title is, 'Let All the People Say 'Amen!': A Multigenerational Understanding of Rite, Hymnody and Preaching." He served at Zion, Ferguson MO, Ruskin Heights, Kansas City, MO and also as interim pastor of Lutheran Campus Ministry at KU. He served on the Hymn Editorial Panel for the Renewing Worship project, helping to select the hymns for inclusion in ELW. He is currently the Director of Research for the Hymn Society in the US and Canada.

Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kan. (one block East of Massachusetts Street, South of downtown Lawrence)

Required Texts:
Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Augsburg Fortress, 2006; Brugh, Lorraine S and Gordon W. Lathrop, ELW: The Sunday Assembly, Augsburg Fortress, 2008; Lathrop, Gordon W., Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament, Augsburg Fortress, 2005; Principles for Worship (Renewing Worship Two). Can be purchased from Augsburg-Fortress, or downloaded as a free PDF copy from the Renewing Worship web site archive: http://www.elca.org/worship/renewing_worship/principles_for_worship/index.html.
ELW Pastoral Care Provisional Resources, free online online at http://www.elca.org/worship/ELW/Provisional_Resources/index.html.

Additional Texts:
Baker-Trinity, Jennifer, Scott Weidler, and Robert Bucklee Farlee, editors, Musicians Guide to ELW, Augsburg Fortress, 2007. [Required for church musicians; recommended for others];
ELW Leader'sDesk Edition, Augsburg Fortress, 2006 [Required for PMAs; recomended for others]

Registration Fees: $150 for Parish Ministry Associate credit; $45 for Auditors

More Information: Download flyer Introduction to Worship

Registration Form: Download the following PDF file, The Worship Course, and return with fees to:
Marilyn Clark, Administrator
Lutheran House of Studies
1245 New Hampshire
Lawrence, KS 66047

Questions? Email: msclark@tlclawrence.org

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