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"Be with us through this
season, Lord, and all our earthly days, that when the final Easter
dawns, we join in heaven's praise."
(Evangelical Lutheran Worship, No. 319, verse 4)
Living in God's amazing grace, we
reach out with the love of God to our neighbors. |
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2008 Global Mission
Lenten Series
Global Companions: Who Is
My Neighbor?
WELCOME!
ELCA Global Mission is pleased to provide this Lenten Worship
Series, "Global Companions: Who Is My Neighbor?" as a gift to congregations for use
during Lent, either at mid-week services or for during Sunday worship. This is the
fifth resource ELCA Global Mission has
provided for web distribution only. New for 2008 is an Easter Sunday
resource from Jerusalem.
What is provided?
The series provides the following resources for a six part,
plus Holy Week,
series of worship services:
- A sermon
written by an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America mission personnel.
- Worship, prayers, and hymn suggestions
from the countries represented. These are offered as examples from some
global companions as they find expression of our shared faith. They are
not official ELCA worship materials.
- Bulletin Covers are provided for each
week. Each week’s bulletin
includes information about the missionary being featured, some of the
work in which the missionary is engaged and other ELCA work in the
region, and how
congregations and/or individual members may become more involved in
global mission.
- PowerPoint of images from the
missionary. This can be used as appropriate as part of the week's theme
presentation.
- Lenten Supper Suggestions.
If you have a Lenten Supper for mid-week
services, we have included recipes for each week.
- Global Mission Resources
These include general global mission information, stewardship resources,
ways to serve with global mission, and other growth opportunities with the ELCA’s
global mission work.
Click here for a downloadable
bulletin insert you can use to publicize this Lenten series:
Word format
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PDF format
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The He Qi accompaniment
art can be
downloaded for use only in conjunction with this Lenten series:
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Click the following links for each
week's materials
See also the
2004, 2005,
2006, and
2007 series, which can be used any year
Please help us with an
evaluation of this Lenten Series resource
Items marked with
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| Another Lenten opportunity
"Living Earth: A 40-Day Reflection on Our
Relationship With God's Creation"
Called to be in communion with God's creation, we must live in such a
way that is sensitive to precious natural resources and in conscious
relationship to the earth, creatures and each other. This 40-day
Lenten reflection series will offer a holistic approach to how we live
as earthly companions, combining God's caring relationship with
creation to our journey in the physical universe. Each e-mail
emphasizes individual and
communal solutions, resources for further learning and suggestions for
how to act or become more educated.
Subscribe by clicking here to this daily reflection series.
This is a limited subscription; the first e-mail will arrive on
Ash Wednesday and the last e-mail will arrive Easter Sunday.
Other ELCA Lenten resources |
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