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Concordia Avondale Campus: A Community Ministry of Concordia Lutheran Church

February 11, 2015 by Nicholas Zook

Our History, Mission and Objectives Concordia Lutheran Church, a small, urban congregation of some 60 families, enacts its faith in Jesus Christ through vital ministries directed not only to our members, but also to the community around us. Concordia Lutheran Church created the ministry of Concordia Avondale Campus out of its belief that the vitality […]

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Programmatic Triumphal Church to Relational Servant Ekklesia: A Conversion Narrative

February 11, 2015 by Gregory Holmes Singleton

I was involved in the initial discussions leading to the Pentecost 2008 issue of Let’s Talk. The editor kindly invited me to write some reflections. Other essays will offer inspiring and informative insights from those engaged in exemplary ministries in the Synod. This essay consists of some reflections based on a career spent trying to […]

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The Multi-Faceted Ministry of Café Immanuel

February 11, 2015 by Frank C. Senn

Our members Chris Djuric, who works a lot of farmers’ markets, and Sarah Stegner, former executive chef at the Ritz Carlton who is now co-owner and chef of the Prairie Grass Café in Northbrook, saw beyond my limited vision. “Let’s serve a gourmet breakfast and invite the whole community of Evanston to come to breakfast—and […]

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Structures of Mission and Ministry Leadership

February 11, 2015 by Wayne Miller

All baptized Christians are called by virtue of their baptismal covenant to live a lifelong ministry of Word and Service. The Word is the grounding for all that we do, and all expressions of Christian life begin with our self-understanding as servants of all. As a practical matter, however, it has been good and necessary […]

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Who Owns the Bible?

February 11, 2015 by Thelma Megill-Cobbler

Who Owns the Bible? Toward the Recovery of a Christian Hermeneutic by Karl Donfried (Crossroad: 2006) Originally presented at St. Luke Lutheran Church (Belmont), Chicago, December 2007 Who owns the Bible? I will begin with three quotes, which in different ways lead to Donfried’s answer. A. The Church. B. The Church. C. The Church. Maintaining […]

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Teen Sex, Urban Ministry, and Missio Passiva

February 11, 2015 by Benjamin Dueholm

Each Wednesday during Lent, the churches of the Metro Chicago Synod’s south conference gathered for a meal, song, prayer, and a frank moderated discussion of issues of sexuality facing our churches and communities. As an intern this year at Bethel-Imani Lutheran Church in Englewood, it has been my responsibility to attend and participate along with […]

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