NEPA LUTHERAN MISSION PARTNERSHIP

October 2010 BulletinPRAISE GOD FOR A NEW MISSION START!"Join us in our prayers for God's Blessings! We invite you to join our prayers of intersession for the new church plant in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The Service of Dedication at our newest Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Mission will be held on Sunday, October 10, at 4:00pm. The new Mission address is: 3285 Pheasant Drive, Northampton, PA 18067. All are invited to be with us as we dedicate and give thanks to God for this Mission from which the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be proclaimed. We desire your personal and corporate prayers for this newest mission outreach. Following the service you are invited to join us for a light supper. Please call the Concordia church office (610-262-8500) with any questions. Sola Dei Gloria! In Christ, Rev. Ray Malec"

SAD NEWS: The mission congregation "Family of Christ" in Bloomsburg, PA has voted to close their doors at the end of this year. They praise God for the blessings that God gave them over the few years of their existence and that they were able to put two of their young men through seminary! We need to pray for the continued witness of Christ in that city!

PRAY FOR: Debbie Hartzell of Faith Lutheran Church, Easton as she is serving a medical mission in Haiti the last two weeks of October!

2011 Area Missions Planned!At their summer meeting at Peace Lutheran Church, Scranton, on August 21, 2010, it was decided to proceed with plans for THREE mission endeavors that we can invite our area churches to participate in. Two of them we have done before, but one of them is new!

It was decided that the following mission opportunities should be pursued and not neglected for the coming year. Perhaps we might not get big groups for all of them, but we should not be discouraged. Even small groups of 3 or 4 individuals can do fabulous work.+ New Orleans Camp Restore Relief in January 2011 + Alaska VBS in the summer of 2011

+ NEW initiative: Building Hope and Homes in Haiti. This is a very exciting new initiative by LCMS World Relief and Human Care. We would like to challenge our circuit churches to

sponsor the building of 2 houses of $8000 each in Haiti. One this year and one next year! We can go down with a team and actually build them ourselves if we want. Just think of the blessing of helping a destitute homeless family with a two bedroom house with kitchen and indoor plumbing!

PLEASE CONSIDER HOW YOU MIGHT PARTICIPATE IN ONE OF THESE MISSION OPPORTUNITIES! Call Pastor Bjornstad at 343-9828 if you would like any more information on these opportunities or to sign up!

For more information please also log onto our website.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The Next Mission Partnership meeting will be DEVOTED TO PLANNING A NEW MISSION START HERE IN NEPA!!!!

10 am Saturday, December 4, 2010at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Wilkes Barre

We call ALL the mission minded to our three meetings a year. PLEASE JOIN US! If you can't join us in person please join us over a conference phone! Please check out

our webpage for updates.

October is Missions Month!

NEPA LUTHERAN MISSION PARTNERSHIP IS ALL ABOUT:Envisioning and Facilitating current and future

LCMS Lutheran Missions in North East Pennsylvania! Check us out at: www.nepalutheranmissionpartnership.org

or call 570-343-9828In step with the Ablaze! movement of the LCMS