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A big thanks to those of you who who are helping to make it possible for our ministry to send Kim and me to the International Theophostic Prayer Ministry Convention in November. $560 has already been raised. We are looking for forty partners to supply $36 or more toward the cost of this important conference. We want to send a free copy of Amazing Faith or The Gift of Transformation (your choice) to anyone who sends a gift of $36 or more toward this conference before August 15. Dwight Clough Ministries Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation. http://www.dwightclough.com/donations.htmlDo not be overcome…
The Rev. John Wille, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Tomah, has been elected president of the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod at the district’s 51st Regular Convention, which was held last week at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon. The Rev. Jeffrey Meyer, pastor of Christ Memorial Lutheran Church in Fitchburg, was elected third vice president. Read more.
COMMENTARY Sometimes very important elections receive very little attention.When the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Frank Page as the group’s president at its meeting this week in Greensboro, N.C., the news appeared on the back pages of most secular newspapers — or it didn’t appear at all. Read more.
The battle of the blogs is in full swing at the Episcopal General Convention meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Dozens of deputies, at least 11 bishops and a multitude of other hangers-on are using the Internet to slug it out over the same issues that the convention is considering through its conclusion Wednesday. Read more.