triptoethiopia.blogspot.com

Dear Friends,

On May 31st I take off for Ethiopia! The shots are all taken and the passports and visas secured! The scheduled itinerary is posted on my blogspot (triptoethiopia.blogspot.com) and hopefully I will be able to update you of the journey whenever there is electricity – and a computer! I have put together a devotional booklet that you can pick up in the church office if you would like to ‘pray along the way’!

In the book of Psalms there is a prophesy that the “People of Ethiopia will stretch out their hands to God”. Together we stretch out our hands in prayer and friendship.

Please pray for the group and for the people of Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries of the world, as we learn about their faith and their courage.

Pastor Lynnae

“Summer is the growing time of the light, seed, play, and wonder.” Sundays and Seasons, 2008

This past Sunday we celebrated Pentecost. Pentecost is the season of green. Not, ‘green’ as in the popular sense of the word. You know, living green today means living environmentally sound and savvy. Living green in a liturgical sense is also living environmentally sound and savvy and sanctified. We are made holy as we live in ‘ordinary time’. These are the days that we learn of what it means to live out the gospel. It is about learning how to be a disciple of Jesus. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit came and touched the disciples, stirring up in them a longing for the holy and thus began the journey to our completeness. Oh, that we were all green!

Pastor Lynnae

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"Notes for My Family"

Last year I attended a retreat for new pastors. It was one of those mandatory things that I drag my feet and or arrive kicking and screaming to! Anyway, it was an entire three day event on ‘Stewardship’. I was pretty sure that I had ‘been there and done that’! Anyway, what do they know about my personal financial situation? As always, I ended up learning A LOT!

One of the best gifts of the weekend was a little handout, booklet-style, called: Notes for My Family. It was a document that included; funeral plans, important documents, insurance policies, assets lists and a host of other important information. It took me a while to complete, but I finished it and told my parents and my sister of the booklet. If something unexpected should happen to me, my family now knows that contained within this booklet is all the information of where to find everything and just exactly what I would like done at a funeral or memorial service. I keep the booklet in the same place and they know where to look. The booklet can be downloaded from the World Wide Web at:
http://www.elca.org/FO/notes.pdf

If you would like to have even more detailed information for a funeral or memorial service, you can always give the church your ideas/instructions for us to maintain in your family file.

I expect to keep kicking, screaming and dragging to things that are good for me, and I expect to keep learning for a long time, but just in case…..I have Notes for My Family.

Pastor Lynnae