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Come join us for an Oktoberfest on Sunday, October 4, 2009, 4 p.m., at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 825 S. Taylor St., Arlington, VA 22204
From May through August, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans teamed with Arlington's four Lutheran Churches to collect cereal for the Arlington Food Assistance Center located in Shirlington. AFAC serves over 900 households per week with supplemental food. Each Arlington Lutheran Church participated in Thrivent's cereal drive for a month, as follows:
ARLINGTON COUNTY CROP WALK 2009 will take place on Saturday morning, October 17, 2009. CROP WALK is a community-based response to hunger sponsored by Church World Service. Walkers raise money to combat hunger throughout the world by obtaining pledges and donations from friends, neighbors and co-workers. Twenty-five percent of all moneys raised through the Arlington County CROP WALK will be donated directly to the Arlington Food Assistance Center. Additional information about the CROP WALK program and how funds are used may be obtained from www.cropwalk.org . Plan on being one of Chapter's CROP Walkers! We will be walking with scores of other walkers from other congregations throughout Arlington County. Plan to meet at 8:00 am , October 17th at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church, 4701 Arlington Boulevard. The course is a 10K distance (~6.2 miles), and it is an easy walk. The topography is relatively flat. The walk will begin and end at Arlington Forest United Methodist, and there will be two check points along the way at St. George's Episcopal and Trinity Episcopal where restrooms and refreshments will be provided.
Relay For Life team members raised $2,650 ,and the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Arlington County Chapter contributed another $1,000 (through supplemental funds) toward research, education and patient services carried out by the American Cancer Society. Our celebration, Relay For Life 2009, occurred on June 21 – 22 at Wakefield High School where we gathered to walk or run from 5pm until 8am the following morning. Team members represented all four Arlington churches and included several cancer survivors. Our team’s popular on-site fundraiser, the lap-counting necklace, was a best-seller again this year, raising about $250 of our total. Wonderful weather contributed to the joyful atmosphere shared by hundreds of Relayers as we walked, chatted, played games, ate snacks and (in a few cases) napped during the 15-hour event. Once again, the luminaria ceremony, including a slide show of loved ones and hundreds of candles lighted to illuminate the track was the most poignant experience of the event. If you have not Relayed before, consider joining the team in 2010.
On Sundays, November 15 and 22, we will be holding our chapter-wide elections for positions of leadership. A special newsletter will be mailed out next month, and it will include the names and bios of the candidates.
On July 25 about 15 volunteers from the Arlington County Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans participated in a build day for a Habitat for Humanity townhouse in Southeast DC. We partnered with the DC Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to support this project which is funded through Thrivent Financial grant (65%); Habitat for Humanity funding (25%) and financial support from local Lutheran congregations (10%) including the four congregations in Arlington County. This is the fourth Thrivent builds/Habitat for Humanity project that we have supported through financial contributions and volunteer labor in the last five years. For details see the DC Habitat for Humanity web site www.dchabitat.org.
Looking for a church home? New to the area and haven't had a chance to find a church yet? Looking to get involved? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, the four Lutheran churches in Arlington invite you to worship with them. Church addresses and service times are listed below.
Living your values. Reaching out to your congregation and community. Helping Lutherans achieve financial security. That’s what the Thrivent Financial representative career is all about. It’s more than a “job.” It’s Work with Purpose™. You’ll receive ongoing training, a financing program to help you launch your career and the support of a Fortune 500 organization committed to excellence in financial services and caring for others. Find out how you can join Thrivent Financial’s growing team. Contact the regional Manager of Lutheran Engagement, Judy Logan, at Judy.Logan@thrivent.com (800) 631-2556, or visit www.thrivent.com/careers on the Web.
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