Mark Your Calendars Now!!!
As indicated in the 2011 evaluation forms, there is a desire to try one study conference with the ACC-Diocese of Rupertsland and to continue with the change of dates (from September to June). We have now confirmed the following details:
June 12-15, 2012
Wilderness Retreat Centre, Pinawa
Rev. Dr. David Lose (Centre for Preaching, Luther Seminary, Minneapolis), keynote speaker
A joint planning group will be meeting in the coming months and more information with registration forms will be available ONLINE in the winter. Please note that only double rooms will be available as we have more people attending, so be prepared to room with others.
We request your prayers and presence with us
at a service of Holy Communion
and the Rite of Installation
Pastor Lester Skonnord
will be installed to the
office of Pastor
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
at 7:00 p.m. Gimli Lutheran Church
52 Third Avenue, Gimli, Manitoba
Reception Immediately Following
Please RSVP by November 15th
to Linden at 204.642.5996
Rostered Ministers are invited to vest.
The colour of the day is green.
Nominating Committee Searching for Individuals Interested in Serving the Wider Church
The MNO Synod Nominating Committee is searching for rostered ministers and lay individuals who are interested in serving the wider church in the following ways:
Member on MNO Synod Council
Member on MNO Synod Council Committees:
- Committee for Christian Education Committee for Church in Society
- Candidacy Committee Committee for Mission
- Committee for Worship & the Arts
- Committee for Youth Ministry
Member on Lutheran Theological Seminary Board of Governors.
The available positions & descriptions are attached. If you or someone you know is interested in serving in any of these areas, please complete the attached biographical data form and send it to the synod office by February 1, 2012.
After February 1st, the Nominating Committee will nominate 2 individuals for each position to be filled. All individuals who submit a Biographical Data form will be informed as to whether or not their name will be presented as candidates for election or appointment in the spring of 2012.
The MNO Synod has created a YouTube Channel and is in the process of producing some videos to share with our subscribers.
Currently there are a number of videos of Prairie Fire performing at the Thanksgiving Retreat at Luther Village and at the November Youth and Campus Ministry Service at Faith Lutheran.
We hope to share the drama pieces from the Thanksgiving Retreat soon.
Click on the link above to view videos.
Also please subscribe to our channel to receive updates when new videos are released.
ELCIC Compassionate Justice Initiatives Funds Available
The MNO Synod Church in Society Committee has recently received grant money designated for Anti-Poverty work to be distributed before Dec 31, 2011. If your congregation or organization would be interested in applying for funds that meet the criteria below, please send an application to Debbie Beyer at MNO Synod office by mail to 201-3657 Roblin Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3R 0E2, by email to dbeyer@elcic.ca or you can fax it to 204.896.0272. Priority will be given to projects proposals which:
Build awareness on hunger and poverty issues as well as solutions through education, leadership development and advocacy
Focus on domestic hunger and poverty issues with priority given to:
Food security (i.e. production, distribution, acquisition, nutrition, land use)
Development (i.e. preventative and primary health care, water and sanitation, literacy, housing, social services, environmental issues).
Are well planned in cooperation with and build on the social, cultural and spiritual resources of people who have access to limited material resources.
Promote self-reliance
Operate in collaboration with other ecumenical and social services partners.
Applications will be accepted until November 30, 2011. We understand that this is very short notice and apologize to those who are not able to complete an application on time. Any applications received after November 30, 2011 will be kept and considered for possible Anti-Poverty grant funding to be distributed in 2012. Application form Reporting form
Advent Gathering for Retired Rostered Ministers, Church Workers
and Spouses
The Advent Gathering for the retired rostered ministers, church workers
and spouses is Monday, December 5, 2011, in the Ambassador M Room, Polo
Park Canad Inns.
Gather at 12:30, lunch at 1:00. Meal options include
ordering from the menu, or Soup, Salad and Dessert for $5.49, or Buffet
for about $11.49 plus gratuity and taxes to be billed directly. An
additional charge of $2.50 per person for room rental will be collected
at the door by Don and Donna Engel.
Help us find the Youth Delegates from your Conference that will attend the MNO Synod Convention, April 26-29, 2012. Each conference is allowed two youth voting delegates (age 15-21) to our Synod Convention. Find attached conference application forms.
Applications must be submitted to the appropriate Conference Dean by January 31, 2012.
Catch some musical performances from Prairie Fire on YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe so that you can be updated when new videos are posted. Click on the YouTube logo to be taken to the MNO Synod YouTube channel.
Prairie Fire is now on Facebook. Why now check out what else will be happening at that service there? Click on the facebook logo to be directed to the Prairie Fire page.
Y.A.M (Young Adult Ministry)
Are you a Young Adult who enjoys coffee and great company? Come join us for our first of three Coffee Houses this year. We will be inviting different music groups to provide music and hand picking a speaker to talk about great things they do for the world.
Sam’s Place
159 Henderson
January 30th, March 26th.
7:30 p.m. Opening act
8-9:30 Music and speaker View and print poster here
As our season out at camp has officially ended and Luther Village has been shut down and tucked in for the winter, I want to say thank you to all our guests who stayed/visited us at camp this past season. My hope is that you were able to witness God’s love and Christian hospitality through our staff and programs while out at LV. It can happen in so many different ways and I do hope you feel you were ministered to. Those who were unable to make it out this year, please do visit us another time! Thanks for the prayers to have another successful and safe season of ministry in the great outdoors. Numbers were low in some areas, which made it difficult for us to meet our budget (we didn’t) but spirits were high.
If you would like to still contribute to our annual Phoneathon fundraiser, you can do so by using the donate button below, or on our website. Deadline is December 31, 2011.
Also please think about joining us for our annual gourmet Dinner & Dance, Friday November 25, 2011. Legacy is providing the music, Chef Raymond is providing the meal, wine & beer will be available for purchase, there will be an auction and fabulous opportunities for fellowship there. See below for details and to order your tickets now so as to not be disappointed.
Watch for our winter newsletter online in December and our annual brochure mailed out mid-December.
If you need to connect with us, we have settled back in our winter offices in Lutheran Church of the Cross on Arlington in Winnipeg. Call at 204.783.3337 or email kim@luthervillage.ca or megan@luthervillage.ca.
Blessings of happiness to all!
Kim Scherger, Executive Director
New & exciting for Luther Village! As many of you know, we are in the midst of our largest fundraiser of the year: our Phoneathon/email-athon. We have set up and added on-line donating through PayPal. Now it is very easy and fast to donate to LV.
It takes just a few clicks and your donation has been sent to us. And you don’t have to have your own account with PayPal. You can donate now to the Phoneathon (Luther Village) or at any time of the year. The button is on our homepage and our Donate/Support page.
Dinner & Dance
Friday November 25, 2011 is the date of our Luther Village gourmet Dinner & Dance! Holy Eucharist Hall in Winnipeg, is again the beautiful location where this evening of a delicious gourmet dinner prepared by Chef Raymond Czayka, wine, dancing to the music from Legacy (Bunkowsky Family) and an auction (there’s rumour there may be an auctioneer this year!) will take place! Tickets available October 1, $40 each ($10 tax receipt included) Call to get yours. Print poster here
Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy Supper
Howdy pardners!
You're all invited to the 2nd annual Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy Supper, 5 p.m., at Our Saviour's, this Saturday, November 12!
Making a return appearance will be sharing of cowboy jokes and the penny auction.
The net proceeds will be given to our MNO synod's 'Mission as Hope' appeal
There is no cost for the supper, but donations are welcome. Receipts will be given if desired.
The cost for the humongous penny auction is, using Sean Bishop's arm as the measure, $5 for a strip of Adult tickets, and $2.50 for one for a Child.
If you can help out with some of the vittels, please email me, osimm@tbaytel.net, call the parish office, 344-1926.
If you're coming, also please email me, osimm@tbaytel.net, or call 807.344.1926, 'cause we need to make sure we've got a place at the spread for 'ya!
Yee haw!
Peace, out!
Preacher Matthew
Saving Jesus
Pastor Lenise Francis is looking to borrow a DVD series called “Saving Jesus”. If anyone has a copy that they would be willing to share please contact Pastor Lenise at lfrancis.stmary@mymts.net or 204.832.1302
An Old Fashioned Winnipeg Christmas
A Benefit Concert for Trinity Place (Flora and King)
with Owen Clarke
and the Westwood Community Band
This 40 piece concert band will present a wonderful Christmas concert.
Please join us at Faith Lutheran (1311 Dakota St.)on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday November 12, Communion
Saturday November 19, Emergent
Saturday November 26, Worship
Saturday worship developed from a vision to provide an alternate time for those with Sunday morning commitments, and an alternate worship style for those drawn to a less structured service.
It is a relaxed, informal worship led by guitar or piano, offered as a break in your busy weekend with plenty of time to go for dinner afterwards and enjoy the rest of your evening!
Once a month we offer communion; once a month there is the opportunity to be anointed as a part of a healing service.
Several Taize worship services are also held throughout the year. Taize is quiet, meditative worship based on scriptures and chanting.
In the Emergent-style worship services, the life of Jesus is seen and celebrated as a model for hope, for social justice, for loving all humanity, and for the hope of taking part in bringing in God's Kingdom in the here and now. These worship services do not use the traditional liturgies or creeds but rather words that apply to us today, teaching us that being a Christian requires practice, learning the compassion of charity, and promoting active participation in God's work in the world, reclaiming the message of Jesus.
Trinity Food Pantry Christmas Party
Trinity Food Pantry Christmas Party is December 10. Christmas dinner
will be served to 50 families and children 13 and under will receive a
Christmas present. The Food Pantry relies on the generosity of Metro
congregations especially at Christmas to cover the cost of the gifts
(average $25), the turkey dinner and the Christmas hampers.
Make checks payable to Trinity Lutheran Church (marked Food Pantry) and send to
Trinity Lutheran Church, 265 Flora Ave., WPG, R2W 2R2, or make donation
through your congregation.
50th Anniversary Dedication Worship Service at Sherwood Park
You are invited On November 20, 2011 Sherwood Park Lutheran Church will have a 50th Anniversary Dedication Worship Service at 11:00 a.m. The focus of this service will be to celebrate our charter members who started this new congregation in East Kildonan and helped it to grow into the vital thriving congregation it is today.
Bishop Elaine Sauer will be our guest preacher and will address our congregation on that day. We will have a potluck luncheon following the service. Historical memorabilia will be on display and for sale will be mugs, cookbooks and DVD’s. Please join us on this final 50th Celebration Day.
Give a Gift that Keeps Giving
Christmas is quickly approaching, which means that CLWR has released a new edition of its Gifts from the Heart catalogue!
Gifts from the Heart are symbolic gift items that help families feed themselves, provide knowledge, improve health, strengthen communities and preserve creation. By purchasing these gifts for family members and friends on special occasions, you will be lending your support to CLWR’s development work throughout the coming year.
Gifts for Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and Lutheran Church–Canada ministries are also available for purchase, and for the first time these gifts are also available on our website.
Gifts can be ordered by cheque (send to CLWR, 302-393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 3H6), or by credit card (call 1.800.661.2597 or visit www.clwr.org/donate).
Copies of the 2011-2012 edition arrived in CLWR supporters’ mailboxes and at Lutheran congregations across Canada in early October. The entire catalogue is also available for viewing on our website at www.clwr.org/donate. Please contact CLWR if you would like to receive a hard copy of the catalogue.
The Hospice Memory Tree
The Hospice Memory Tree will be open to the public at St. Vital Centre (by The Bay) from November 29, 2011 to December 24, 2011.
The Hospice Memory Tree is a special place to help ease the pain of grief during the holiday season and where you are invited to hang a card of remembrance for your loved one who has died. The tree offers a very meaningful and symbolic way to remember loved ones over the holiday season.
The launch of the Memory Tree 2011 will be held on November 29, 2011 at 10:00 am at St. Vital Centre (next to The Bay). Guest speaker will be Wendy Hayward, mother of 25 year old son, Corporal James Hayward Arnal who was killed in Afghanistan by a road side bomb on July 18, 2008.
This event will be a tribute to the fallen Manitoba soldiers. Entertainment will be by Collège Jeanne-Sauvé Senior High School Choir.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Time: 5pm - 8pm Fort Rouge Recreation & Leisure Centre - 625 Osborne Street
Distinguished scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will speak on the topic of Fundamentalism in Religion. (Lynda Trono is the Christian speaker)
Free Admission, Free Parking, Free Refreshments
For more information
Phone: 204.475.2642; or 204.250.1108; or 204.995.1611
Email: muslimsforpeacewinnipeg@gmail.com
Organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at.
An Evening with Dianne Baker
Cambrian Agassiz KAIROS invites you to attend an evening with Dianne Baker on November 29, 2011. Dianne will speak on her experiences over three months with The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. We will meet at Kildonan United Church which is located at 187 Kilbride (east of Main St.), between 7:30 and 9:30pm.
Dianne is a dynamic speaker and this will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the current situation in Palestine/Israel, and about the EAPPI program.
More about Dianne: Dianne Baker served with EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel) for three months from June to September 2011. She is the mother of three daughters and partner of Jim Hatherly. She and Jim have shared a long commitment to issues of justice and cross-cultural work. They lived in Trinidad working with The Methodist Church on behalf of the United Church of Canada from 1992 to 1995. Dianne was able to participate in EAPPI by taking a leave of absence from her work as a therapist in the Family Therapy Department at New Directions in Winnipeg.
Job Opps
Part Time Salaried Youth Leader Position Are you someone who enjoys working with youth? Are you creative? Can you think on your feet? Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and Messiah Lutheran Church (ELCIC) are searching for YOU for this shared ministry position!!!! We need a Christian youth leader willing and able to facilitate spiritual growth, mission and witness with our active youth groups. This is a part-time salaried position of $7200 per year beginning January 1, 2012. Applicant must be 18 or older with a high school diploma or equivalent. Drivers license not necessary but an asset.
Email gdeiwpg@gmail.com for a complete job description. Applications can be emailed to gdeiwpg@gmail.com. Deadline for applications is December 15th, 2011.
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