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Daily Bible Verse
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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." -- Jesus (Matt. 6:21)
ELCA Prayer Ventures
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February 9Thank God for Kirsten and Pastor Stephen Kienberger. Pastor Kienberger is a parish pastor of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo, Norway. This international congregation seeks to bring together people of different nations and denominations as followers of Christ.
Daily Bible Reading
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010 [1 Samuel 9:15-10:1b (NRSV)]The call of Saul
Now the day before Saul came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the suffering of my people, because their outcry has come to me." When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you. He it is who shall rule over my people." Then Saul approached Samuel inside the gate, and said, "Tell me, please, where is the house of the seer?" Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer; go up before me to the shrine, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind. As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, give no further thought to them, for they have been found. And on whom is all Israel's desire fixed, if not on you and on all your ancestral house?" Saul answered, "I am only a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel, and my family is the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Why then have you spoken to me in this way?"
Then Samuel took Saul and his servant-boy and brought them into the hall, and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, of whom there were about thirty. And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion I gave you, the one I asked you to put aside." The cook took up the thigh and what went with it and set them before Saul. Samuel said, "See, what was kept is set before you. Eat; for it is set before you at the appointed time, so that you might eat with the guests."
So Saul ate with Samuel that day. When they came down from the shrine into the town, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep. Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul upon the roof, "Get up, so that I may send you on your way." Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
As they were going down to the outskirts of the town, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the boy to go on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God." Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him; he said, "The Lord has anointed you ruler over his people Israel. You shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around.
ELCA News Blog
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ELCA saves $295,000 on health contributions in 2009by Frank Imhoff, ELCA News Service* Across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), 15 synods, seminaries and churchwide ministries saved collectively more than $295,000 this year on ELCA health benefit contribution payments, according...
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ELCA Board of Pensions annuity, bridge fund benefits reduced for 3 yearsby John R. Brooks, ELCA News Service The Board of Pensions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) sent letters to 12,500 plan members in its Participating Annuity and Bridge Fund, notifying...
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LWR awarded $1.49 million from USAID for malaria work in Maliby Melissa Ramirez Cooper, ELCA News Service Lutheran World Relief (LWR), a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), received a $1.49 million grant from...
ELCA News Releases
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World Orthodox Leader Tells ELCA Delegation Dialogue Will Continue*** Please note corrected text in this story, replacing references to Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue in the United States with the international Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue through the Lutheran World Federation. John R. Brooks Director, ELCA News Service Chicago ...
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ELCA Delegation Visits Closed Orthodox Seminary in TurkeyHEYBELIADA ISLAND, Turkey (ELCA) -- They wait faithfully and hope. Two Orthodox leaders, Metropolitan Apostolos, abbot, and Father Dorotheos, maintain the Holy Monastery and Theological School at...
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ELCA Ecumenical Delegation Visits Church of England, Anglican CommunionLONDON (ELCA) -- An official delegation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met with officials of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, discussing matters such as a proposed...




Rev. Greg Tennermann has begun serving Upstate New York Synod during the current transition period. Since February 2009 Pr. Tennermann has served as the Intentional Interim Pastor at St. Peter's, Verona. He will continue in that ministry while also serving on synod staff. Pr. Tennermann will be working with congregations served by Intentional Interim Pastors and will also continue to serve the Synod's Conflict and Healing Team.
After seventeen-and-a-half years on synod staff, Rev. Dave Preisinger will be returning to serve part time in a congregation. He has accepted a part time call (40%) to serve as pastor of Holy Spirit in Albany. He will continue to serve part time (60%) on synod staff. Holy Spirit is part of the Albany cluster of congregations that have been actively working together for 15 years. Dave is excited and pleased to be going back into regular parish ministry. The people of Holy Spirit have been very welcoming and are equally excited about their future together as partners in ministry. The partnership begins February 1, 2010.
You can text LWR to 40579 to donate $10 to the organization's Haiti relief efforts. In addition, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has pledged to match donations of its members with $1 for every $2 donated, up to $3 million. Thrivent members desiring to have their gifts matched must make their gifts by calling 800-236-3736 from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Central time, Monday - Friday.