Announcements

Happy Wednesday, Luther students!

Thank you for voting for organizations to receive monetary gifts from the Stewardship Leaders Program. Your choices are below. Each organization will receive $200 from the Stewardship Leaders Program. Many thanks to all of you for making this happen by completing the Financial Wellness Survey, nominating charities, and voting for your favorites.

Creation Care/Disaster Response: Lutheran Disaster Response
Economic Justice – Minnesota: Urban Ventures and Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul
Economic Justice – outside Minnesota: Poor People’s Campaign
Love the Stranger: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services
Hunger and Homelessness – Minnesota: Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
Hunger and Homelessness – outside Minnesota: Feed My Starving Children
Women and Kids: Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Network
Anti-Racism/Reparations: Southern Poverty Law Center

In gratitude – Arlene Flancher, Innovation Team program coordinator (SLP and CYF)

The Liturgy of the Hours podcast is back this week with our liturgists Nate Crary and Luther seminarian Hannah Sackett, who recorded this prayer outside in the courtyard of the University Lutheran Church of Hope while wearing masks and standing 20 feet apart. We note that there have been at this point 1.3 million deaths worldwide due to the coronavirus; 18.7% of which have occurred in the United States.

This is the last episode of season two, in which we have offered Matins, or prayer for the morning time. Morning Prayer points us to Christ’s resurrection dawn. This week we prepare for the end of the church year with the Reign of Christ. We confess that Christ is our King and pray for Christ’s kingdom to come — on earth as it is in heaven.

Many students were unable to attend the ELCA bishop Zoom call last Wednesday. You can view the 60-minute session using this Zoom link and the passcode G6X+dTgX .

Email Ashley Wheeler (awheeler002@luthersem.edu) or Sarah Luedtke-Jones (sluedtkejones001@luthersem.edu) with questions.

Open Advising With SLJ: Have questions about what to take this spring? Pop in, and I’ll do my best to help you out!

Follow this Zoom link.

Can’t make it? Email advising@luthersem.edu with your question or sign up for an appointment.

Have you felt in over your head trying to fill the roles of both worship leader and videographer? For many congregations, video-based worship experiences are new and often frustrating experiments that were not in their 2020 strategic plan! This training will equip you with many no-budget (free) or low-budget (less than $100) solutions that will yield a high-impact on the quality and clarity of your video worship experiences.

Topics will include basic tricks and tips for composition, lighting, sound, and editing with accessible techniques and approaches any congregation can benefit from. We will work to gently move from simply filming what we have always done to thinking intentionally about how we can modify our behavior and spaces to be the Body of Christ when we gather remotely.

Luther Seminary student Nathan Lyke has served in vocational ministry for the past 17 years and also holds a degree in filmmaking. He has served as a children and youth minister, worship leader, and communications director while also freelancing as a videographer. In the past eight months he has used this blend of experiences to create video worship services for youth ministry, graduation and chapel services as a student at Luther Theological Seminary, and as an archivist for a forthcoming 2021 documentary feature film.

11 a.m. Central November 24
RSVP to Cory Driver (cdriver001@luthersem.edu) for the Zoom link.

Ramsey County is hosting a virtual community town hall 5-6:30 p.m. Central November 17 to discuss a potential temporary shelter for women and couples experiencing homelessness at the vacant Stub Hall dormitory at Luther Seminary. This is the first step in a community process to evaluate this potential temporary shelter location as COVID-19 and the subsequent economic downturn have further exacerbated the housing crisis in Ramsey County.

Where:
Join via Zoom or phone. Details are available on Ramsey County’s webpage for the virtual town hall.

When:
5-6:30 p.m. Central November 17