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Introducing Kairos

Introducing Kairos

Thu, Jul 01, 2010

A new mission-learning experience for young adults was initiated two years ago by Ebenezer Lutheran Brethren Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kairos is for young adults who live in or are moving into the Twin Cities and want to live in an intentional discipleship community in mission.

Youth-Led Youth Group

Youth-Led Youth Group

Mon, Apr 26, 2010

A young man, between his sophomore and junior years of high school, suddenly took over the evening devotions at the Wednesday youth program. Our youth leader was busy with pre-convention details after the ice breaker game.

Community of Joy's Discipleship Emphasis

Community of Joy's Discipleship Emphasis

Tue, Feb 23, 2010

Christ's call in Matthew 28:18-20 to go into all nations and make disciples is as all-encompassing for our congregations today as it was for the original disciples who heard his Great Commission with their own ears.

A Greater Sense of Mission

A Greater Sense of Mission

Tue, Dec 29, 2009

It's easy for us as Christians to think of "missions" from our own perspective: something that is the concern of career missionaries or is located far away in a foreign mission field. However I believe God would rather have us think of missions from his perspective: something that begins right at home with each of us being concerned about our friends, family, and neighbors who are lost apart from Christ.

Card Ministry

Card Ministry

Mon, Nov 30, 2009

It’s Christmas card time again! Most people send Christmas cards to greet to their friends, to share family information and to encourage people with a reminder of Christ’s birth. But this lady makes and sends cards all year long! Read about Vonnie Draxten, who shares her gift of card making with myriads of people, teaching others to do the same. If Barnabas was a “son of encouragement,” Vonnie is a “daughter of encouragement.”

Video-e-newsletter

Video-e-newsletter

Sun, Nov 01, 2009

As pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran Brethren Church in North Tonawanda, New York, I am interested in new ways to communicate the Good News with people inside and outside of our congregation. Bob Bailey, a member of our church, has been working on a web-based service called a Video-e-Newsletter.

Camp on the Road

Camp on the Road

Wed, Aug 26, 2009

Good News Church partnered with Inspiration Point Bible Camp for a week of "Camp on the Road" and set a goal of 40 children, three times more than they have attending their church. "Well, we formed a leadership team to handle all the details of preparation for our week of day camps. We made 2000 flyers, 30 posters for every mom and pop shop, a large sign for the road, we had tables at local fairs with information, we gave out invitations and information at the local Christian school, and we had public service announcements on every radio station in the area."

Israel, More Slowly: Tour for Impaired Walkers

Israel, More Slowly: Tour for Impaired Walkers

Wed, Aug 26, 2009

Editor’s note: the following is a press release used recently to share information regarding a unique ministry led by Pr. Greg Pietz who has joined the CLB through colloquy. In this “Do You Innovate?” column, we learn of his creative approach to a dream many share: To walk where Jesus walked.

Theology Bursts Forth In Song (part 2)

Theology Bursts Forth In Song (part 2)

Tue, Aug 25, 2009

Three more songs that are not available in the printed magazine. Listen and download!

Theology Bursts Forth In Song

Theology Bursts Forth In Song

Tue, Aug 25, 2009

This past fall semester I taught a seminary extension course titled Introduction to Lutheran Thought which was hosted by Maple Park Church, Lynnwood, Washington. Micah Nordtvedt, the Director of Worship at Hope Church, Everett, WA, chose to put into song the word that God was delivering through the Scriptures. Listen to and download the songs!

National Night Out

National Night Out

Mon, Aug 17, 2009

Our youth were serving in local mission with another youth group from a sister congregation in South Dakota, and together with the Evangelism and Service boards of Ebenezer, we planned and threw a party last August that our neighbors still talk about to this day.