Mission Developer’s Conference, Chicago, August 16-21
Three of our seminary students, David Chell, Robert Grewe, and Jason Zinko, along with Kim Scherger, Executive Director of Luther Village, and Annemarie MacIntosh, mission developer at Abundant Life, East St. Paul will be attending the ELCA Mission Developer’s Conference in Chicago. The Synod Mission Committee approved Annemarie’s attendance because she is a mission developer, Kim’s attendance since Luther Village is clearly a mission of our Synod, and the three students,  to provide them with additional missional training prior to their going on internship. Joining the group, also, will be a couple of Anglicans, Preston Parsons, rector at St. Mary Magdalene (St. Vital) and Jennifer Sissons, rector of Good Shepherd (Fort Richmond).  “To have the Anglicans join us for this Conference”, says Larry Ulrich, MNO Mission Consultant, “is a direct result of the mission strategy meeting this past May, when over 30 representatives from five Lutheran congregations and six Anglican congregations met together at the Church of the Good Shepherd (Anglican) to discuss a joint Lutheran/Anglican mission strategy for the Waverly West and Sage Creek developments of Winnipeg.”  Further meetings regarding southeast and southwest Winnipeg mission strategies are scheduled to take place in October, 2007.