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Church News: November 2001 |
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Our Church Services in November 2001:November 4th -21st Sunday after Trinity November 11th - Third Last Sunday of the Church year November 18th - Second Last Sunday in the Church Year November 25th - Eternity Sunday December 2nd - 1st Advent
Our Groups and Circles The Ladies' Group
The Church Council The Youth Group Confirmation Instruction Mission Circle Church Choir Sunday School
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The LORD GOD says: I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, Meditation on the Verse for the Month Dear Congregational Members, Oberkirchenrat Weigand's visit in Retrospect During the time from October 14th to 18th, Oberkirchenrat Peter Weigand visited our congregation. His visitor's agenda was extensive. He was a guest at the Bishops' Conference of the ELCIC in Niagara Falls to meet with Bishop Pryse and Bishop Raymond L. Schulz, National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada; he has met the acting Consul General in Toronto and has gathered information about the refugee work of the Canadian Lutheran World Relief. Furthermore, he has seen our nursery, taken part in a church council meeting and spoke with congregation members. He said that he returns to Germany with a very good impression of our congregation. He is glad about the work being done in the congregation and the good co-operation with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). We thank Mr, Weigand once again for devoting so much time to his visit in our congregation, and we are looking forward to taking further joint steps into the future. DELKINA-Conference in Edmonton As reported, the meeting of the German
Evangelical Lutheran Conference in North America (DELKINA) took place in
Edmonton from October 9th to 15th. Mr. Erich Feyerabend, member of the Church
Council and of the German Cluster, Mr. Schmidt-Ewald as congregation member and
Pastor Wolf attended the conference, to which app. 30 representatives of German
speaking congregations came from Canada and the U.S.A. It was interesting to
hear about the experiences of other congregations. It is evident everywhere how
difficult it has become to find the right German We baptized Melanie Raina Schnick The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall
dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. Already one year … ….we have spent in Canada. For us a good year with many new experiences and pleasant events. We feel really very comfortable in our congregation and in the parsonage. On this occasion, we wish to thank all congregational members for the support and invite you once again to the parsonage, on December 1st, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., 3203 Gatliff Ave., Mississauga, (south of Bloor, east of Dixie). We look forward to see you! Thanksgiving Service on September 30th - in Retrospect 165 visitors to the Service, more than 100 guests for the joint BBQ - that is the sum of our Thanksgiving Service. We are truly very happy that you have participated, and here are some photos: German Services in Florida In case you will travel to the warm south this winter, we wish to point out German Services in the name of the DELKINA. DELKINA supports the ministry for vacationers and people who spend several months in the vacation paradise Florida, also with financial support. Should you want further information, please turn to: Pastor Harold Popp, 3116W.7 Lane, Cape Coral, Florida
33991, Tel: 941-2831 5047.
The Last Word Laziness is the inclination to rest without
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cordially invite you to stay for a while
after
the Services for a cup of coffee!
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shepherd felt responsible, was prudent and concerned. When the Bible speaks of
God as the good shepherd, it serves to show us how concerned God is. "I
will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the
crippled, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will
watch over; I will feed them in justice." God has a weakness for the weak,
he does not give anyone up for lost, heals wounds, strengthens us from behind.
That, which is good, he wants to guard. And altogether he wants to "feed in
justice", as it is right and fitting for us. In this turbulent world, this
is the comfort which we need. During this month, when we remember the dead, at
this time, when daylight lessens and the nights grow longer, this message is
exactly right – don't you agree? I am glad that the Verse for the Month brings
God's promise before us. I am glad about these comforting and encouraging words
at the beginning of this month. And I wish you, that you will not look in vain
for this comfort elsewhere, but that, in the valleys of your life, you will
immediately remember the Good Shepherd.
speaking Pastors or to finance
the work of the congregations. Congregations getting older, social problems in
inner city neighbourhoods in the vicinity of churches, for instance in
Philadelphia, or the question how Services in the German language can be
co-ordinated - Pastor Harold Popp reported on this - have occupied our
conversations in and outside of our business meetings. Especially the EKD and
younger colleagues voiced their concerns that the DELKINA must continue to be a
connecting link between the German speaking congregations and the representation
of interests opposite the Church Councils of the ELCA and ELCIC. The retreat
program of the conference was good (Jasper National Park), but took too much
time. The newly elected council (President: Andreas Wagner, Philadelphia;
Vice-President: Katharina Möller, Guelph; Secretary: Holger Roggelin,
Baltimore) plan to undertake a revision of the statutes and a more intense
co-operation.
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Martin Luther Church
is a member congregation of the
Toronto Conference of the
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Canada, the
DELKINA
(Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Konferenz
in NordAmerika / German Evangelical Lutheran
Conference in North America), and the
EKD (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland /
Protestant Church of Germany). |