Church council meetings. Love them? Hate them? Dread them? Be a Better Church Council Member One of the ways to have a better church council meeting is to be a […]
Congregations
Concert in the Country Result of Geo-Parish Work (Or Why You Should be on Facebook)
Wednesday night, April 29, the four congregations that make up Cross Roads Lutheran Parish—Faith in Mitchell, St. Luke in Nora Springs, Rock Creek and St. John in Osage, worked together […]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
More and more congregations are either plowing up land on their own property to plant gardens or participating as a congregation in local community gardens. It seems like a […]
RAGBRAI Opportunity to Show Hospitality
“I’ve met so many nice Lutherans, I may have to become Lutheran!” The above comment was from a RAGBRAI rider from Indiana I sat next to while enjoying a Pork […]
Labyrinths in Northeastern Iowa Synod
I have a confession. I can’t sit still and pay attention for very long. Now it has a diagnoses of Adult Attention Disorder. I always called it “I get bored […]
150th Anniversary of Lutheran Congregations in Decorah
So lets’ be honest about the history of Lutherans in America. It’s a rather cantankerous one. Lots of church fights and splits over matters that, although now they make us […]