Executive and Council Meet Monday
Our monthly Second Monday regular meetings will be Monday at 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Be sure to check your email from Linda to download or otherwise review the reports.
Prayers for Bishop Lohrmann
On Tuesday, we received this message from Bp. Daniel:
Dear Friends in Christ,
On Monday, March 6, Pastor Marcus Lohrmann, who served as the Bishop of the Northwestern Ohio Synod from 1998-2016, underwent heart bypass surgery at Toledo Hospital. Surgery was successful and recovery is going well. Thanks be to God! Please keep Marcus, Heidi and their family in your daily prayers.
Bless you,
Bishop Daniel G. Beaudoin
Lunch with Trinity Seminary Director
On Thursday, I was as a lunch guest of Rev. Mary Ann Harris Siefke, Director of Congregational Engagement and Advancement at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus. We were joined by Rev. Gerald Bauer, a pastoral colleague during my years at St. Peter in Norwalk. Mary Ann was my organist/accompanist at St. Peter Blackberry and St. Luke's Curtice, my 2013 interim. She had completed a Master's of Music at Trinity, and was teaching music at the Catholic school in Oak Harbor. I encouraged her to go back to seminary for her M.Div., which she did. She was ordained at St. Peter in July of 2017, and accepted a call to a congregation in PA. About a year a half ago, she accepted the call to Trinity. This lunch outing was extra fun, because at the next two tables were members of my 2012 interim, Trinity Lutheran in Vermilion. It was fun to reconnect with all these people!
LIFT Leaders Meeting
LIFT Leaders met on Wednesday for our monthly meeting. We reviewed our Holy Week and Easter schedules, and Mary Carmen updated us on the plans for the migrant welcome baskets (see next paragraph for more info). Pr. Tim reported on physical updates and changes for the worship area at Faith that will be voted on soon.
LIFT Notes
You can read the current issue HERE. One item that is more time sensitive than others is the campaign to provide welcome baskets for migrants arriving for spring planting. You can view a Bridge of Hope Facebook page post that lists the items that are needed HERE. Bridge of Hope director Anne Garcia says that we hope to have these baskets ready by the end of March. For more information about Bridge of Hope, contact coordinator Anne at (419) 371-0463. If you would like to be part of a team that encourages this ministry and builds relationships by accompanying Bridge of Hope staff on visits to the migrant camps, contact Pastor Paul. (bailiepaul@gmail.com or 440-477-3641).
Picture Directory Update
We have settled on a format and provider for our new picture congregation directory. We will be using an online service provider called Instant Church Directory. You can read about all the features of this service HERE. We will export names and addresses of our congregation data base, and upload them to this service, along with the portraits that Dave took during our potography sessions last fall, and the photos that members have provided. The service will organize all of the data and photos into a directory that can be viewed online (with password protection) or downloaded as a pdf and printed and bound into an 8.5x11 booklet. Mobile apps are available through which you can view and change your own info and pic, and view others' info (like you would do in a printed directory). For members who didn't sit for photography or send in a photo to include, their names and contact info can be included in the directory on an opt-in basis by providing that information. This will take a few weeks to complete, and I'm hoping that we can have printed directories ready by Easter.
Synod Interim Pastors Meet
NWOS Transitional Leaders meet monthly via Zoom on the second Thursday of the month at 3:30 pm. It's always to good to connect with other leaders who share both the joys and challenges of leading congregations who are experiencing change and transtion.
Midweek Lent Series "Amazing Grace" Continues Wednesday
Join us for our Amazing Grace Lenten series based on the beloved song that celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.In this service, we witness Jesus bringing sight to a man born blind, giving the man the added spiritual vision to see the amazing grace of God found in Jesus, who heals us all. We were blind but now we see. Supper is served beginning at 5:30 pm, and worship begins at 6:30 pm.
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