But note that the San Francisco ministers are in green stoles!
Posted on 09/12/2010 10:23:32 AM PDT by lightman
YOU’RE INVITED TO AN HISTORIC WORSHIP SERVICE AND CELEBRATION!
All are welcome to join the Celebration!
ELCA Rite of Reception to the clergy roster of the ELCA for Pastors Anita Hill, Ruth Frost, Phyllis Zillhart will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2:00 p.m. at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 285 N Dale St., St Paul, Minnesota. Party after the service at the church.
The Reverend Peter Rogness, Bishop, Saint Paul Area Synod of the ELCA, presiding. The Reverend Barbara Lundblad, Union Theological Seminary, New York, preaching. Clergy and rostered leaders are welcome to vest and process. Green is the color of the day.
Sponsorships of the day’s festivities may be donated online or by check designated “Rite of Reception” payable to St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church.
Celebration Dinner/Dance at the Saint Paul Hotel begins with conversation and cocktails at 6 p.m. Dinner served 7 p.m. with brief program followed by dancing. This ticketed event will benefit the Wingspan Ministry of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, Lutherans Concerned/North America, and the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, for the ongoing ministry of expanding the welcome of Lutheran congregations.
Tickets ($50/person) may be purchased online or by mailing your check and guest list to arrive by September 12 to St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, 100 Oxford St., Saint Paul, MN 55104.
But note that the San Francisco ministers are in green stoles!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Happy Anniversary /sarc
Be rooted in Christ!
Sometimes it is just better to not comment...
“Pastor” Anita Hill is a partnered lesbian. She was “Ordained” in an irregular ceremony through the “Extraordinary Ministry Project” several years ago with great fanfare and with several ELCA Bishops participating. No discipline was ever exercised against St. Paul-Reformation for calling a Pastor who was not approved and/or on the ELCA roster
The ELCA Church Council has determined that what was formerly irregular and illict is now to be regularized and made legal through this “Rite of Reception”.
“This ticketed event will benefit the Wingspan Ministry of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, Lutherans Concerned/North America, and the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, for the ongoing ministry of expanding the welcome of Lutheran congregations.”
From http://www.stpaulref.org/wingspan.html:
“Wingspan is a ministry of pastoral care, education, advocacy and support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”
From http://www.elm.org/
“Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries (ELM) expands ministry opportunities for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the Lutheran church.”
So the dinner/dance is basically a Gay Pride mixer...
and some of these churches wonder why people are leaving when they do this crap.
They say reach out and bring more into the church but reality is that they might get one or two coming in but 10 to 20 leave.
Still the left and the homosexuals have been infiltrating churches for many years now.
Got to a church, get friendly with folk, get them to like you but never mention about you being a queer.
Once you feel you have got the confidence and friendship of some of the people then tell them that you want to be left alone, you were born that way and you just want to love the person
sadly many dopes fall for it , even one woman on here who has been at church most of her life fell for their B/S
ELCAspeak translation: Spread a little apostasy wherever you go.
I like it better when I am not aware of these things.
In the years before internet one did not have to know all this stuff. God help America, I am almost afraid to ask Him for blessings.
What a vile thing that church bears that name.
Their religion has nothing to do with St. Paul, Luther or the Protestant Reformation.
Since I have other plans that day, I guess that I will not be able to travel to St. Paul to attend this “celebration”.
That afternoon (Lord willing), I will go to my former ELCA parish to attend a memorial service for one of the patriarchs of Lutheranism in this area. He died at age 94, and he never asked for all the fufarar that has crept into the ELCA. May his memory be eternal!
On Saturday evening (Lord willing), I will attend the SerbFest at my Serbian Orthodox parish. And the following day—the Lord’s Day—I will attend Divine Liturgy and receive the Holy Mystery of Christ’s True Body and Blood. Then I will attend SerbFest again.
While I am away from my OCA parish on Sunday—Lord willing—a family of four will be received as Catechumens into that parish. I have been praying for more Catechumens for over two years, and I prayed for that former ELCA family specifically. And we have another, former Roman Catholic new Catechumen as well, which makes five. Thank you, O Lord, for answering my prayers.
I have attended ticketed banquets—at $50 each—for my Serbian church’s Opening and Consecration, with the proceeds going to pay the mortgage of the building, first occupied in 2006. This is after having given regularly to the building fund when getting a new, larger building was only a pious hope. I was giving to that cause even without attending a banquet, so was glad to give in conjunction with the banquets as well.
However, spending $50 for the abomination in St. Paul is WAY too much!!! I wouldn’t go if they instead paid me $100,000 plus travel expenses!!!!!
Please, y’all, if you’re in the ELCA, run far, far away! Run all the way to the Holy Orthodox Church, which is your true home. REALLY!!!! You’ll be glad you did.
Actually, this has everything to do with Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s goal was that every man (or woman) should be his (or her) own theologian, that what one believes is the product of “conscience”. These whack jobs in clerical garb are the end product of what Luther started five centuries ago, which was, in essence, a movement toward “do your own thing”.
The followers of these ELCA whack jobs are the ones that St. Paul spoke about, with “twitching ears” (2 Timothy 4:3).
a movement toward “do your own thing”.
Ummm, no. Sola Scriptura, a staple of the reformation, is about being faithful to the Word of God.
This event might be historic because a few gays will join the clergy roster at the same time. I’m in Chicago, and, in Nov. 2007, I read, in the Chicago Tribune, that a lesbian was ordained at a Chicago church. The article stated, “Although the ELCA ordains gays, other Lutheran groups, Missouri Synod and Wisconsin Synod, don’t ordain gays because they follow scripture.”
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