Category: Ministry
Loading Vans & Heading Out? Be Prepared
This summer, hundreds of our congregations, maybe even thousands, will load up planes, trains and automobiles and head out on summer trips. Destinations will include Bible camps, work camps, mission trip sites, national parks, music festivals and more. And almost all of us will remember to pack a trip first-aid kit prior to departing to ...
Congregations Hosting Groups Database: We’re Starting Over!
For years, the Network has made available to Network members a database of congregations that are willing to host traveling youth groups who are on their way to a camp, mission trip, youth gathering or other experience. We are making two significant changes in this database: First, we are wiping that database out and starting ...
Connect Journal Seeking Writer on Mental Health
The Editorial Team for the Connect Journal is looking for your assistance. The Winter 2017 issue will focus on mental health issues in children, youth, families, and those in the church who serve them. We know that many of you have experience working with young people and families who face mental health issues.Some of you, ...
Finishing Well
I was shocked, but not surprised, when the news of the closing of Youth Encounter was released a couple of weeks ago. Youth Encounter is an organization with a rich history in the Lutheran church, and its closing is an event of seismic proportions in the world of ministry with young people. I can only ...
Youth Encounter Closes its Doors
From the Youth Encounter web site: Posted on February 29, 2016 by Meg Sawyer After 51 years of successful and fruitful ministry, Youth Encounter is shutting down operations and closing its doors at the end of April. Youth Encounter will finish its current event season on April 3, 2016 and then host two Feed the ...
Updated Network App Released!
A major update to the Network’s mobile app has been released for both the Apple iOS and for Android. The iPad version of the app will be released next week. Click here to download the app. In addition to making the app a little quicker and squashing some “bugs,” the new app adds several different ...
Guest Blog Post: Youth Ministry Links
Paul Amline, the Program Director for Youth Ministries in the ELCA Churchwide Offices in Chicago, and a great friend of the Network, is our guest blogger today, and is writing about “Youth Ministry Links” Youth Ministry Links – Crowd Sourced and Curated – www.youthministrylinks.org by Paul Amlin For those of us who’ve been around long ...
Children’s Ministry: A Note from Rev. Stephen Bouman
Special Guest Blog: We invited Rev. Stephen Bouman, the Executive Director of Evangelical Outreach and Congregational and Synodical Mission in the ELCA offices in Chicago to address the needs of children within the church, and to talk about a new position being created at the churchwide offices. Thank you Stephen for sharing with the Network! When ...
Transition
Life has been pretty much a whirlwind in the last few weeks. As has been noted on the Network’s Facebook page, Trinity Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Minnesota has extended a call for me to come and serve as a pastor. After a lot of conversations, thought and prayer, I have decided to accept this call. ...
Want to go to Germany?
Michael and George, our good friends who together form the band Lost and Found, have been working for a few years on the Luther500 Project. And they have an invitation for the Network. Get more information on the special invitation by clicking here. Luther500 will bring folks to Germany to celebrate the 500th anniversary of ...
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