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Tell Us About Yourself & Your Preferences

This fall we will be setting up a couple of computer stations to help folks access their account in Church Community Builder before and after worship - or anytime they drop by Lord of Life throughout the week. In order to fully unleash the power of Church Community Builder here at Lord of Life, it is vital to have folks update their online profile and set up their communication preferences. This will ensure that you get asked to participate in events and activities that are of interest to you; it will also help ensure that you receive communication from Lord of Life that is tailored to your preferences. In this day of many and various ways to communicate it is important we communicate using the method that is best for you. While profiles and communication preferences can be edited at an...

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Liberation Theology Workshop

On August 8: - Liberation Theology Workshop: This workshop will be led by Pastor-President Rolando Martinez of the Iglesia Cristiana Luterana en Honduras (Lutheran Christian Church in Honduras, our companion synod) on the important tenets of liberation theology and how it shapes the life and ministry of the Lutheran church in Honduras and the life of faith in a Central American context, and also how it relates and speaks to our context here in the United States. The workshop is free of charge, open to both clergy and laypeople, and includes a light lunch. The workshop will be held from 10:00 am to noon at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Duluth. RSVP to Rev. Dave Mesner at dmesner@lcgsduluth.org if possible. This is a wonderful opport

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Columbariums – What they are…and should we explore installing one at Lord of Life

First of all - for those who don't know what a Columbarium is ... it's a series of niches in which the human remains of someone who has been cremated may be place. Typically, after cremation, ashes are placed in an Urn and the Urn is placed into a Columbarium. The front panel of a Columbarium can be engraved with personal information, similar to a gravestone, to help family and friends located the correct niche. For as far back in time as there have been church buildings, the bodies of the deceased have been placed in graves located within or immediately outside the church.  While the practice of putting cemeteries around churches has been largely discontinued, the practice of installing Columbariums in churches has seen a resurgence in recent decades.  For instance, not far awa...

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