Visitor January 2011
Assisting Ministers
2 January Jordyn Lloyd
9 January Kathleen Bell
16 January Jennifer Coles
23 January Karen Zachau
30 January Bonnie White
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Follow the Star
January 6
On January 6, we celebrate the revelation of Jesus to the nations. The wise men came from a distant land to see the child born to be a king.
We will celebrate Epiphany on Thursday, January 6 with a dinner at 5:30 pm and worship with Holy Communion at 6:30 pm. Wes and Robert will cook dinner so come hungry! Then join the wise men and worship Christ, the Lord.
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Java and Jesus
Come to the library at 9 am Sunday mornings for a cup of gourmet coffee and conversation about the Bible. We’ll be spending the next few weeks looking at how Lutheran Christians look at the Bible and at life. Come and enjoy and learn.
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We remember Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
January 2
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872) was a pastor of the Lutheran Church, a writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheranism. From the small town of Neuendettelsau, he sent pastors to North America, Australia, New Guinea, Brazil, and the Ukraine. His work for a clear confessional basis within the Bavarian church sometimes led to conflict with the ecclesiastical bureaucracy. His chief concern was that a parish find its life in the Eucharist, and from that source evangelism and social ministries would flow. Many Lutheran congregations in Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa were either founded or influenced by missionaries sent by Löhe.
Löhe was born on February 21, 1808 in the town of Fürth, Germany. His father was a shopkeeper.
After seminary, Löhe was sent to a number of different congregations before finally settling in village of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria in 1837. He was married that same year. By most accounts, Löhe was an ideal pastor who interacted well with a variety of different classes of people. He focused his theological studies on the Lutheran Confessions and put considerable thought into the celebration of Holy Communion as the center of congregational life. Löhe was also interested in old Lutheran liturgies.
Despite being confined to a pastorate in an out of the way village, which he never left, Löhe nevertheless exhibited a keen interest in missionary work. He was particularly concerned about the state of German immigrants to North America. He solicited funds through a variety of sources to help these immigrants and encouraged pastors to go to North America to assist the settlers and help with conversion of the Native American populations. To this end, he constructed two schools to train missionaries, one of which became Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.
In addition to being concerned about foreign matters, Löhe retained a concern for domestic social matters. In this spirit, he founded the first Deaconess house in 1849 which gave women the opportunity to become nurses, teachers and social workers in community. The house became a place of social and education activity, hosting schools, hospitals, and other social agencies. There is still an active Lutheran deaconess community in both Germany and in the United States.
Löhe died on January 2, 1872 at the age of sixty-three, having influenced the life of the Lutheran Church on five continents. The chapel at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa is dedicated to his memory.
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TAKE THE CHALLENGE
READ THE BIBLE!
Are you ready to read the whole Bible in 1year? Discover what is really in the Bible by reading it all the way through. Here are the suggested readings for one plan. Use any translation. The Message, The Good News Bible, and The Contemporary English Version are especially good for this type of reading. The New Revised Standard Version is an excellent translation. The King James Version has beautiful language, but is a bit more difficult as English has changed since the time of Shakespeare.
If you follow this plan for the next year, you will have met the challenge!
Jan 1: Gen 1-3
Jan 2: Gen 4-7
Jan 3: Gen 8-11
Jan 4: Gen 12-15
Jan 5: Gen 16-18
Jan 6: Gen 19-21
Jan 7: Gen 22-24
Jan 8: Gen 25-26
Jan 9: Gen 27-29
Jan 10: Gen 30-31
Jan 11: Gen 32-34
Jan 12: Gen 35-37
Jan 13: Gen 38-40
Jan 14: Gen 41-42
Jan 15: Gen 43-45
Jan 16: Gen 46-47
Jan 17: Gen 48-50
Jan 18: Ex 1-3
Jan 19: Ex 4-6
Jan 20: Ex 7-9
Jan 21: Ex 10-12
Jan 22: Ex 13-15
Jan 23: Ex 16-18
Jan 24: Ex 19-21
Jan 25: Ex 22-24
Jan 26: Ex 25-27
Jan 27: Ex 28-29
Jan 28: Ex 30-32
Jan 29: Ex 33-35
Jan 30: Ex 36-38
Jan 31: Ex 39-40
Feb 1: \fs26*Lev 1-4
Feb 2: Lev 5-7
Feb 3: Lev 8-10
Feb 4: Lev 11-13
Feb 5: Lev 14-15
Feb 6: Lev 16-18
Feb 7: Lev 19-21
Feb 8: Lev 22-23
Feb 9: Lev 24-25
Feb 10: Lev 26-27
Feb 11: Num 1-2
Feb 12: Num 3-4
Feb 13: Num 5-6
Feb 14: Num 7
Feb 15: Num 8-10
Feb 16: Num 11-13
Feb 17: Num 14-15
Feb 18: Num 16-17
Feb 19: Num 18-20
Feb 20: Num 21-22
Feb 21: Num 23-25
Feb 22: Num 26-27
Feb 23: Num 28-30
Feb 24: Num 31-32
Feb 25: Num 33-34
Feb 26: Num 35-36
Feb 27: Deut 1-2
Feb 28/29: Deut 3-4
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