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Welcome to Mission Works

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thanks to donors.

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I'm Dale Meyer.

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For 30 years

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I spent most weekends away from home preaching a different

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congregations of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Whatever the

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size of a congregation wherever its location one thing is consistent

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people love their local church.

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Thanks to your support Concordia Seminary offers resources to help

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pastors and laity in congregations grow in their faith in the Lord

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Jesus.

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A prime example is our annual pre-lenten Workshop.

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Here's a photo from a past pre-lenten Retreat.

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This year's Workshop will be held online. Covid you know.

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The theme is old love how deep, how broad, how high God's in enormous

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mercy.

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It will be led by Dr.

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Thomas Egger. Pastors will learn how to illuminate different facets

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of God's enormous mercy to their congregation during this Lenten

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season. And the workshop offers practical resources for Lenten

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worship a help to lighten pastors workload.

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Lent and all times Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and

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forever, but the world in which we live out our faith changes.

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Today's media surrounds us all as never before especially

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entertainment media and so our faculty offers the second annual Faith

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and Film Festival. Here

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you see a photo from last year's Faith and Film Festival. This year

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it will be online. Participants will explore Christian themes in

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contemporary Cinema and develop eyes to see film in new ways.

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This event includes 13 feature-length films that participants will view

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before the festival. During the virtual sessions of the faith in film

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festival several short films will be viewed together online and there

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will be enriching discussions with theologians, pastors, filmmakers and

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critics.

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The Faith and Film Festival will be January 28th and 29th.

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You can learn more and register at our Seminary website csl.edu.

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Speaking of online visit Concordia Theology.

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org there you'll find post from our faculty on various current topics.

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Here you see the homepage of Concordia Theology.

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org. It's laid out

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so you can easily scan the topics and click ones

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you want to explore and more depth.

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You'll see that the titles

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are not not random ruminations from theologians tucked away from

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real life.

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They offer relevant insights on various issues of faith and life that

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we all laity and church workers struggle with in today's challenging

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culture. And on a personal note. At Concordia

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Theology.

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Org, you can find episodes of the program

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I host Word and Work an Intersection.

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These are interesting programs too.  Like the one we taped a day in the

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life of a police chaplain.

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I've shared a lot of information because your Seminary has much to

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share we offer these resources to the church.

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Thanks to you our donors.

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In all my years of traveling throughout the church God's people love

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their congregations.

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The prophet Hosea said, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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Thanks to your support Concordia Seminary is offering pastors and lay

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people the knowledge of God for life, life today and life forever.