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Gods Work. Our Hands.

Preparations for our annual Southeastern PA Synod Helping Hands Day, an event of spirited-service and creative-celebration are well under way! Helping Hands Day is Saturday, April 24th. This is an amazing event where young people and their adult leaders will worship, share, laugh, eat, work, sing, learn and serve God & our neighbors.

Hundreds of Lutheran volunteers will join hands that day to do God’s work in over 20 organizations throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.

The discounted fee will be $10 a person for registrations submitted by Friday, March 26th. Anyone registering after March 26th will be $15 a person. 

Download the poster and registration letter now.  Registration opens February 1st.  Follow the link below for our online registration.

HHD Reg Ltr.pdf

HHD 10 poster.pdf

To download the PDF to your desktop, you have to right-click, select "Save Target As...", pick a place to save it, and click "Save". If you simply click on a link, it will just download and appear in the browser like a webpage. If you are still having problems it may be that you don't have a PDF reader or new enough one to view the file. To up-to-date your reader click on the link below:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Click "Download Now!" from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. Unlike Adobe Reader (20MB), this is only a 1.21MB download, which should take only about 5 minutes to download over slow dial-up.

Registration link --https://www.regonline.com/SEPASynod2010HHD

 

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South Dakota Sunday

In July, our synod will be sending a team of youth and adults to serve on American Indian Reservations in South Dakota. This team of 116 people represents twenty-four congregations from our synod.

In celebration of this journey, we are designating April 18th, 2010 as South Dakota Sunday in our synod.  Because the traveling participants need a solid base of support back here at home, we are asking all congregations in our synod to participate, even if they are not sending participants on the trip.  Your participation in this servant trip and in South Dakota Sunday means a few things-

  • We ask you to keep the traveling team and the people of the Rosebud and Crow Creek Reservations in your prayers. 

  • We are asking SEPA congregations to take a special in-kind or monetary offering on South Dakota Sunday for our projects on the reservations. One of our service projects is a day camp for children of the reservation. We are hoping that all materials for this camp will be donated by individuals, businesses, organizations and congregations.  A flyer and bulletin insert is available below with more details including the items we are collecting.

  • If your congregation is sending youth or adults on the trip, we encourage you to invite them to speak briefly in worship on South Dakota Sunday so they can share with the congregation a little about why those chose to serve this summer in South Dakota and what they expecting with the trip. If your congregation does not have anyone attending the trip, members of the South Dakota team are willing to present a Temple Talk or Ministry Moment during your worship service.  Contact Molly Beck Dean at mbeck@sepa.org if you would like to have someone speak with your congregation.

Thank you in advance for supporting this important ministry!

SD Sunday letter.pdf

SD Sunday flyer.pdf

SD Sunday bulletin insert.pdf

To download the PDF to your desktop, you have to right-click, select "Save Target As...", pick a place to save it, and click "Save". If you simply click on a link, it will just download and appear in the browser like a webpage. If you are still having problems it may be that you don't have a PDF reader or new enough one to view the file. To up-to-date your reader click on the link below:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Click "Download Now!" from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. Unlike Adobe Reader (20MB), this is only a 1.21MB download, which should take only about 5 minutes to download over slow dial-up.

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South Dakota Servant Trip

The South Dakota Servant Trip is full. To put your group or an individual on the waiting list, please email Jessica at jmcalister@sepa.org

Our Synod Servant Trip will be July 1-12, 2010 and is open to youth in grades 9-12 (in the 2009-2010 school year) and their adult leaders.

The group will spend some time in Rapid City seeing sites like Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, continuing with group building and doing additional learning around Native American culture. We will journey to the Rosebud and Crow Creek reservations on Sunday, July 4th. Roughly 70 participants will serve on the Rosebud reservation doing hands on work projects and running a day camp for local children. About forty people from our group will travel further east and north to the Crow Creek Reservation to do hands on work projects.

Resources for the South Dakota Servant Trip

Brenda's testimony.pdf

Brent's testimony.pdf

Reservation info.pdf

museum trip poster.pdf

Recent newspaper article concerning the Crow Creek Reservation http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6729231/American-Indian-land-sold-off-by-IRS-to-pay-off-taxes.html

To download the PDF to your desktop, you have to right-click, select "Save Target As...", pick a place to save it, and click "Save". If you simply click on a link, it will just download and appear in the browser like a webpage. If you are still having problems it may be that you don't have a PDF reader or new enough one to view the file. To up-to-date your reader click on the link below:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Click "Download Now!" from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. Unlike Adobe Reader (20MB), this is only a 1.21MB download, which should take only about 5 minutes to download over slow dial-up.

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CONTACT US!!
SEPA Synod Office
7241 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA 19119
Youth Ministry Specialist: Molly Beck Dean, 267.323.3762, mbeck@sepa.org
Youth Ministry Assistant: Jessica McAlister, 267.323.3757, jmcalister@sepa.org


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updated 03/03/2010