ELCM Iowa News & Notes

News, notes, and other items of interest from our North Iowa mission parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium (ELCM).

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Location: Audubon, Iowa, United States

I have served as Pastor of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Audubon, Iowa since September 1, 2007. Prior to coming to Audubon, I served as Mission Development Pastor for two ELCM mission stations, Beaver Creek Lutheran Mission, Forest City, Iowa and North Prairie Lutheran Mission, rural Scarville, Iowa from November, 2005-August, 2007.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Beaver Creek Lutheran Mission (ELCM) Announcements for the Week of April 23rd-29th, 2006

This Week @ Beaver Creek:
Wednesday, April 26th-Pastor in Forest City, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Friday, April 28th-Saturday, April 29th-Pastor in Des Moines
Sunday, April 30th-KIOW 107.3 FM Broadcast, 8 a.m. 3rd Sunday of Easter Worship with Holy Communion, 10:30 a.m.

Summer Worship Time Change Beginning Sunday, May 7th, Sunday worship services at Beaver Creek will go back to our former 11 a.m. starting time due to summer Heritage Park activities and Pastor's hope of having a 2nd ELCM preaching station in another community in the coming months, per one of the stipulations of his Official Call as Mission Development Pastor for North Iowa through our ELCM Executive Board. If you have any questions or concerns about this time change, please contact Pastor Martin.

Pastor Out of Town Pastor and Lindsay Martin will be in Des Moines later this week for a short post-Easter vacation. They will leave Friday afternoon and return late Saturday night. If you should have an emergency that would require Pastor to return earlier than planned, you may call his cell phone at 641-494-4885. If there is no answer, please leave a message so he can get back to you as soon as possible.

E-Mail Solicitations While Pastor encourages you to pass along his contact information to congregations, small groups, or individuals wishing to learn more about ELCM or our mission congregation, his inbox has been flooded in recent weeks with solicitation emails from singers, drama groups, and companies wishing to push their programs on our congregation. In order to reduce the amount of these emails, please do not give Pastor's email addresses out to such individuals , groups or ministries. Thank you.-Pastor Martin

Wedding Guidelines 1st Draft A rough draft/outline of possible wedding guidelines for ELCM pastors serving our ELCM North Iowa Mission Parish are avaliable for you to read through or provide feedback. Members of Beaver Creek may request a copy of these guidelines to be emailed to them, and may then provide adequate feedback. Please take a few moments to do so, so we can have a working document in place and ready to approve in May.

To learn more about Beaver Creek Lutheran Mission, visit our congregation's website at www.elcmiowa.org/beavercreek. To learn more about ELCM, visit www.elcm.org.