Ministry Partners

Our ministry partners

Jesus Christ is Lord of his church and our congregation. We believe that the church is the local congregation where the word of God is rightly preached and the sacraments (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) are administered accordingly. To help us carry out our ministry and grow to the maturity that Christ has in mind for us, we as a congregation choose to partner with the following organizations:

1. Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC): a flat association of over 1,000 congregations, LCMC is different from a hierarchy or bureaucracy. We choose to affiliate with this association because we share the same core convictions:

- free in Christ

- accountable to one another

- rooted in scripture and the Lutheran Confessions

- committed to fulfilling the Great Commission

You can learn more about Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ at: http://lcmc.net/

2. FaithInkubators: Faith Inkubators is dedicated to the health and welfare of all God’s children and the whole Christian church, its congregations, families and children. Through our partnership with “FINK”, we are equipped with not just excellent curriculum but with a systematic, holistic approach to help families follow Jesus.

FINK’s mission is to equip church leaders to effectively train their congregations in holistic, biblical, theologically sound faith formation systems. It is also their goal to catalyze a revolution in home-based faith education and spawn a home devotional movement across the church.

Together with our friends at FINK, we strive to make the home the primary incubator of faith for disciples of all ages by replacing classroom models of education with parent-involved small group models. We choose to partner with FaithInkubators because of our common conviction that parents are the key teachers of the faith and that home is the “first church”. You can learn more about FINK at: http://www.faithink.com/

3. Willow Creek Association: Willow Creek Association (WCA) is a not-for-profit organization that exists to maximize the life-transformation effectiveness of local churches. We partner with WCA because they train and equip us to be more effective in reaching out to our neighbors with the message of Jesus Christ. You can learn more about WCA at: http://www.willowcreek.com/

4. The Institute of Lutheran Theology: ILT is an independent, pan-Lutheran theological project, holding that God in Jesus Christ brings sinners to repentance and new life. Because of its commitment to Scripture, to the Lutheran Confessions, and to deep dialogue with the contemporary intellectual horizon, the Institute works with supporting congregations to educate the next generation of faithful Lutheran preachers and teachers. You can learn more about the Institute of Lutheran Theology at: http://ilt.org/

(ILT) Institute of Lutheran Theology Newsletters:

August 2012

5. MayaWorks believes that community development happens through economic development of women. MayaWorks is a nonprofit social venture that empowers indigenous women of Guatemala to achieve economic security by providing markets for their handcrafted products, access to microcredit loans and expanded educational opportunities. www.mayaworks.org The Spring Newsletter can be seen at the following: MayaWorks Newsletter: Spring 2013

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This week’s scripture:

Genesis 11:1-9

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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