Festive Banquet Features The St. Luke’s Bottle Band

Banquet celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Those attending the 2007 Churchwide Assembly will gather on the evening of Friday, August 10th for a festive banquet to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The banquet will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel and will begin at 6:30 p.m. The menu will feature some foods that are especially unique to the city of Chicago.

Members of the St. Luke’s Bottle Band, from St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Park Ridge, Illinois, will provide the entertainment during the evening. Founded in 1978 by Professor Paul Phillips, the group uses tuned bottles to play everything from Bach to the blues. The band has been heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and seen on Wild Chicago, the NBC Evening News and The Jenny Jones Show. Twice the Bottle Band has traveled to New York to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman. In February 2007 the band performed at Symphony Center for a youth concert.

Dinner for voting members and advisory members is included in Churchwide Assembly registration. Others may purchase banquet tickets for $85 each upon registering for the Churchwide Assembly. If you already have completed your registration for the assembly and would like to purchase additional tickets for this event, please call the registration desk at 800-638-3522 ext. 2840. The deadline for purchasing banquet tickets is July 15, 2007.