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12/18/2019
Southern Ohio Synod e-bulletin for the Week of December 18, 2019
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Synod News
The synod office will be closed December 21-January 1, 2020. The Bishop and staff wish you and your family a blessed Christmas and a joyful new year!
God’s Grace, Your Hands: How to carry out a similar giving effort in your congregationThe season of giving started early for one Cincinnati congregation...Learn how your congregation can extend the season of giving in your community! |
Help provide a safe and fun place for kids to heal from the Dayton Memorial Day tornadoes!The Southern Ohio Synod Dayton Conference, in conjunction with LSS Disaster Services, is hosting the 1st of 5 Camp Noah weeks for kids, K-5 this March. Your donation can make this healing place possible for campers in need! |
Back Again by Popular Demand: “Effective Congregation Council” TrainingThrive! Goal #1 is “Equipping Lay Leaders.” Through this goal: “The Synod will be seen as leading and providing networks through which lay leaders will be more highly equipped for leadership within their congregations, be more effective in their communities, and thrive in their ministries.” Be equipped to lead your congregation into the next year and years to come with this Congregation Council training that will turn everything you ever thought a council should be into everything you ever hoped a council would be! |
Week 3 of Advent & Christmas Eve/Day Videos and other lectionary topic videos available to SOS Congregations free of charge!A new worship video library – open to all congregations – is now available on YouTube thanks to the creativity and generosity of Pastor Joe Wolf (St. John’s, Lithopolis). Subscribe (for free) today! New videos posted! |
Youth & Family News
The Discipleship Dive.Dan Jacob has put together another excellent experience for us at Wittenberg University. The Discipleship Dive is a week long experience (June 21-26, 2020) designed to explore the depths of faith and service. Groups of high school youth will work side-by-side with community leaders in service and advocacy. Housing will take place at Wittenberg University.
For more information or to register: Click Here or contact Dan Jacob at jacobd@wittenberg.edu |
Annual Capital Bowl (Ignite)For 7th through 12th graders, Ignite (formerly the Capital Bowl) will be Friday January 31st - Saturday February 1st, 2020, in Kerns Religious Life Center on campus at Capital. For More Information: Click Here |
ELCA News
Midnight stillness.Bishop Elizabeth Eaton's December article for 'Living Lutheran.' |
Help spread the word! YAGM applications are now open for 2020!Applications for the ELCA’s Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) program are now open, and you can invite young adults on this yearlong journey abroad. |
Affiliate and Partner News
You're invited to the 29th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Learning on Jan 20, 2020 at Capital UAchea Redd, a Mental Health Advocate and Author of BE FREE BE YOU, has been selected to give the Gay S. Steele Keynote Address. |
Prayers
Deaconess Carmen Colon-Brown as she mourns the death of her father
The Rev. Andrew Gulle, Bishop of East of Lake Victoria Diocese, regarding the death of his cousin
Susan Keljo regarding her health and death of her mother
Pr. Bob Swanson as he heals from radiation and chemo for cancer
Kim Uemura and family as they mourn the loss of her grandmother
Employment Opportunities
Accounting Clerk
David Lutheran Church, Canal Winchester
300 Groveport Rd. Canal Winchester, OH
Youth & Family Director (part-time)
Christ Lutheran Church, Athens
Athens, Ohio
Administrative Assistant
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Columbus
404 South Third Street, Columbus, Ohio
LOMO Program Director at Lutheran Memorial Camp
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in Ohio (LOMO)
Lutheran Memorial Camp
Check out what's going on in and around our synod! Click HERE to see our calendar. |
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