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Check out this week’s blog post from Dean of the Chapel Steve Thomason—Don’t Worry About Your Life?!?

In this devotion, James L. Boyce ’71 M.Div., discusses how Zephaniah challenges us with a call to responsible and alert living. Read today’s God Pause.

We’ve made it over halfway through fall semester! This week, we continue our 8-week Old Testament series. Join us on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday as we dig deeper into this week’s text. For more information, check out Steve Thomason’s Dean of the Chapel blog. Schedule for this week:

Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Contemplative Practice in the Meditation Chapel and on Zoom (link in email).

Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Service of Holy Communion in the Chapel of the Incarnation and livestreamed.

Thursday at 11:00 a.m. CT
Lunch Church in the OCC Dining Room with our November “Brake Bread” gathering.

Anytime. Share your prayer requests

The Business Office, HR, and Payroll will be closed from Monday, November 23 through Friday, November 27. During this period, we will not be processing any financial transactions, including payments, invoices, voucher requests, or reimbursement requests.
To ensure your requests are processed before the closure, please note the following deadlines:
• All invoices, voucher requests, and reimbursement requests must be submitted to the Business Office by noon on Tuesday, November 17.
• Any requests submitted after this deadline will not be processed until the week after Thanksgiving (starting Monday, November 30).
• All online student account payments made after noon on Friday, November 20 will not be posted to accounts until Monday, November 30.
We encourage you to plan ahead to avoid any disruptions in your operations. Your understanding and cooperation are greatly appreciated.

We are pleased to announce that Quan Nguyen is joining the Office of Technology shared services IT team as an Administrative Liaison for Computing. Quan will be splitting his time between Luther Seminary and Augsburg University. At Luther Seminary, Quan will be providing user support for faculty, staff, and students. Quan brings many years of user support experience in higher education, K-12 education, and the private sector to our team, and we are very excited to have him join us. Quan’s first day will be Monday, November 9.

Students and faculty have full access to the Faith+Lead membership, including monthly workshops. This month’s workshop is Practicing LGBTQIA+ Affirming Ministry with Cody Sanders. Move beyond affirming into truly living the commitment to become places of healing, belonging, and celebration. This workshop will focus on ministries of spiritual care for LGBTQIA+ people who have experienced church harm, outreach to the wider community about inclusive faith spaces, and ministries of advocacy and justice in an era of increased attacks on LGBTQIA+ wellbeing. Space will be cultivated for dialogue between participants and presenter for questions specific to participants’ contexts. The workshop is on Thursday November 12 at 12 p.m. CT. To join, log in at lab.faithlead.org and register for the event.