Join us for a day
at Pine Lake Camp, Waupaca, WI
SUNDAY, JULY 1 OR MONDAY, JULY 2
Grace will carpool both Sunday & Monday

Register at Church Office (715-453-4066),$40 each day (team discount)
Fee includes lunch, supper, and registration

SUNDAY, July 1st
9:30  KEYNOTE: Brian Konkol  “Mission as Accompaniment:  Conversion, Connections, and Conversations”
10:30  Small Group Bible Study: each group facilitated by a South African and International Church leader

SUNDAY WORKSHOPS     1:30 & 3:00  

• You, the ELCA, Are Doing Global Mission, Rafael Malpica Padilla, Director of ELCA Global Mission.
• Accompaniment or Christian Tourism? Brian Konkol, just returned from S. Africa
• South Africa’s Youth League,  youth and young adults from South Africa
• The Madikwe Circuit, Hear why and how 78 S. Africans came to Wisconsin.
• Companion Synod Relationships, How La Crosse and Metro Chicago Synods are practicing accompaniment
• Lutherans from Around the World, International Seminarians tell us about themselves and their church.
• Music and Movement to Praise God, A time to share songs and learn to move while singing.

4:15 SOUTH AFRICAN LED WORSHIP AND COMMUNION

7:00 SONG FESTIVAL – Solos, duets, or small group song performances – Come sing and/or listen!

Monday, July 2nd

9:30 KEYNOTE:  Charles Zang  “Congregations At Work in the World Through Lutheran World Relief Efforts”
10:30    Small Group Bible Study: each group facilitated by a South African and International Church leader

MONDAY WORKSHOPS    1:30 & 3:00

• Transforming Mission with LWR, Charles Zang, LWR Congregation Engagement Manager.
• Fair Trade and Faith, Chandler Carriker, LWR Congregational Resources.
• LSS Disaster Response, When local disasters happen your Lutheran Church is there.
• Kits, Quilts and Comfort, Hear stories about relief and development work from Tanzania to Peru .
• LWR Growing Projects, Hear about 250 Growing Projects all over the USA, 3 here in WI.
• Calling Youth to Live Out Mission, Hear stories of youth doing God’s work at home, school and beyond.
• LSS + You = Our Baptismal Call to Ministry, Paul Brinkman, LSS living out “God’s Work, Our Hands”.
• Liturgical Dance, See how the youth at Grace in Iola, WI move while worshipping God!

4:15 PANEL DISCUSSION Led by Rafael Malpica Padilla with Bishops  Jim Justman, Jim Arends & Wayne Miller, plus Brian Konkel, and LWR leaders

7:00        RESOURCE FESTIVAL – Over 20 tables & activities

Sponsored by the Companion Synod/ Global Mission
Task Force of the East Central Synod of Wisconsin, ELCA and by Crossways Camping Ministries.