June 29, 2007 TEST edition
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Dear Friend,
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Welcome to the new SEPANews! You're receiving this email as a randomly selected member of our list in order to test our new email system. Please reply to let me know that you received this, and advise us of any problems viewing this email.
Our new system will give you access to Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod news, learning events, resources and service opportunities with just one click!. Enjoy, and please let us know how SEPANews can better serve you.
Bob Fisher
Assistant to the Bishop for Mission Interpretation
610.278.7339 | sepanews@sepa.org
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LAMPa: Taxpayer Protection Act would hurt PA
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 The Taxpayer Protection Act soon to come before the state Senate is similar to an initiative adopted in Colorado in the 1990s that " proved to be a disaster for governments, business, taxpayers, children, the sick, the poor, and the powerless," The Rev. Neil P. Harrison, executive director of Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania, writes in an opinion piece published in The Morning Call, Allentown, on June 27.
As a pastor in Colorado in 2001, Harrison witnessed the "devastating" effects of recession on top of a decade of forced spending cuts. " Higher education funding had plunged by 31 percent. The share of low-income children lacking health insurance doubled, and by 2006 Colorado ranked last in the 50 states in providing poor kids with health insurance," he writes. "Is this the sort of results we want for Pennsylvania?"
Read the entire article at the Call's website
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LWR alerts health kit donors to contaminated toothpaste
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 Is your congregation involved in the assembly of LWR health kits? LWR asks that donors double-check all toothpaste being included in their health kits. Please discontinue use of any toothpaste manufactured in China, as well as any Colgate toothpaste with the label "made in South Africa." Many of these toothpastes are found in dollar stores in certain states. News reports have indicated that certain toothpastes contain small amounts of the toxic chemical diethylene glycol (DEG). Among these is counterfeit Colgate toothpaste, which is labeled "made in South Africa," even though Colgate does not import toothpaste from that country.
Learn more at LWR's website
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"Wonderfully made" camp for LBGTQ teens
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There is an exciting upcoming opportunity for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning) teens in grades 9-12 to safely share worship, examine their faith and enjoy fellowship at a Lutheran day camp in Philadelphia. The camp is being sponsored by the SEPA Synod Lutheran Bryson/Gay & Lesbian Task Force. Camp dates are August 1- 3, 2007. To protect the safety of individuals attending the camp the exact location will not be published but will be made available to participants, parents and guardians after registration. Overnight accommodations may be arranged for teens coming from a distance. Cost for the camp is $60. Scholarship assistance is available.
Learn more at the Synod youth website. Contact Molly Dean at mbeck@sepa.org or 610.278.7345 for registration information.
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Ministry resources
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Acts Worship Series
If your congregation would like to engage in a powerful worship series called "The Spirit Empowered Life", in which you read, preach and study the book of Acts, St. James Limerick would love to share their free resources with you. We have found worship series like this to be very faith building in our congregation!!
Go to the congregation's website for more information.
Introducing @Liberty
Liberty Lutheran Services announces a new email newsletter that puts Liberty's diverse resources, services and programs just one click away. Through the work of Liberty's affiliates - Artman Lutheran Home, Lutheran Children and Family Service, Paul's Run and Liberty at Home, more than 17,000 children, families and older adults are cared for across Southeastern Pennsylvania.
For information about subscribing write to info@libertylutheran.org
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ELCA News
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ELCA to Offer Racial-Ethnic Multicultural Event
Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Reformed Church in America will come together to celebrate diversity at the "Spirit of Wholeness in Christ: A Racial Ethnic Multicultural Event." The event will be held July 12-15 in Los Angeles. Read more
ELCIC elects Susan Johnson national bishop
The Rev. Susan C. Johnson was elected June 22 to a four-year term as national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). Johnson, assistant to the bishop, ELCIC Eastern Synod, Kitchener, Ontario, received 206 votes on the sixth ballot of the ELCIC's Eleventh Biennial National Convention, June 21-24, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Read more
Global Mission Event July 19-22 in Columbus
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Global Mission Event (GME) is July 19-22 at Ohio State University, Columbus. Endorsed by the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the event will draw more than 2,000 people from the United States and around the world. The theme for this year's event is "New Heaven and New Earth." Read more
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We hope this new SEPANews format makes it easier for you to stay informed about our shared ministry as the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod. To submit news for publication, please send short items two to three weeks in advance of desired publication to sepanews@sepa.org.
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Bob Fisher
Assistant to the Bishop for Mission Interpretation
Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
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