Tue
Jul 20
2010
This summer, vacation Bible schools all across the Synod are doing a variety of projects to help others. One example of this took place at the VBS held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Hooper.
More than 40 children attended the VBS at St. Paul’s June 21-25. Throughout the week, the youth brought coin offerings for God’s Global Barnyard, contributing a total of $215 to be used to purchase a sheep, a goat and 40 chicks that will provide food and income for families in developing countries.
Churches sponsoring the Bible school were St. Paul’s Lutheran/Hooper, Elim Lutheran/Swaburg, First Congregational & United Church of Christ/Uehling, St. Paul’s Lutheran/Uehling and St. John’s Lutheran/County Line.
Thu
May 20
2010
Bishop Dave deFreese
Nebraska Synod, ELCA
“The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon Him.” (Luke 2:40)
A 17-year-old boy lay in a hospital bed dying because of leukemia. His father was there at the bedside. Through the years, he had given that boy “everything” … a home, comforts, education, a variety of experience, and luxuries … but in that sober hour, his son needed something more.
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Thu
May 20
2010
Mitch McCartney
Director of Communications and Development
Nebraska Synod, ELCA
I remember as a youngster growing up in central Nebraska looking forward to the field trip that my class would get to take at the end of the school year.
Heading into the year-end field trip, everyone was excited because it meant a day away from the stress of the classroom (as if being a third grader was really all that stressful in the first place). But the field trip always turned into something more than that.
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