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 74th Annual Reformation
Celebration held in Sacramento area
The
74th Annual Reformation Celebration
sponsored by Zones 4 and 19 of the
International Lutheran Laymen’s League was held
Sunday,
October 27, 2019, at Town and Country Lutheran
Church in Sacramento.
We were
privileged to have the Rev. Dr. Gregory
Seltz, Lutheran Center for
Religious Liberty, (LCRL), as our guest
speaker. Special music
was provided by an adult choir, soloist,
and a chime choir. A
reception followed the
service in the parish hall at Town and
Country Lutheran Church.
To view
the sermon of that service, click here.
In
addition to this annual service in
Sacramento on Sunday, we had a special
luncheon at Holy Cross Lutheran Church
in Rocklin on Saturday, October
26th. Dr. Seltz had a question and
answer session where he gave us further
insight into what is happening with the
LCMS in Washington D. C.
To view
this presentation, click
here. For the handout for
this presentation, click here.
Videos of
several previous years are available for
your viewing:
Rev.
Michael Lange, President of the
California-Nevada Hawaii District of the
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, spoke
at the 73rd Annual Reformation Service
in 2018. For more on this, click here.
Dr.
Andrew Bartelt, Professor
of Exegetical Theology at Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis, served as speaker
for the 72nd Annual Service in
2017. For more on this, click here.
Dr.
Dale Meyer, President of Concordia
Seminary in St. Louis, served as
speaker for the 71st Annual Service in
2016. For more on this, click
here.
Dr.
Gregory Seltz, Speaker of The Lutheran
Hour, served as speaker for the 70th
Annual Service in 2015. For more
on this, click
here.
Dr.
Lawrence Rast Jr., President of
Concordia Theological Seminary, served
as speaker for the 69th Annual Service
in 2014. For more on this, click here.
Dr. Paul L Maier, a son of the first
Lutheran Hour speaker and much published
author, served as speaker for the 68th
Annual Service in 2013. For more
on this, click
here.
CNH District Student
Financial Aid Available
The
Herb Rourke Scholarship Endowment Fund is
one source of funding to help students
from our district pursue higher education.
The purpose of this program is to provide
financial assistance grants to ministerial
or teacher candidates who are members of a
congregation in the
California-Nevada-Hawaii District of the
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and are
preparing to enter the full time
ministerial or teaching professions in
approved Lutheran programs. To be eligible
for a grant, the candidate must be
admitted to and diligently pursue an
approved course of study at a seminary or
college of the Lutheran Church - Missouri
Synod.
To
request a grant from the Herb Rourke
Scholarship Endowment Fund please click
here for the application forms. Be
sure to have all sections completed,
including that by the college or seminary,
and then send all completed forms in time
to be received before August 1st to: Herb
Rourke Scholarships, 1014 Virginia Street,
Vallejo, CA 94590-6307. Applications are
processed in August of each year.
For more information, you can contact us
at scholarships@cnh-lhm.org
CNH District Donors
Support LHM in India
 Second
only to China in number, India is home
to nearly a quarter of the world’s
population. Covering 3.3 million square
miles, India is roughly one-third the
size of the United States. Religion in
India is very diverse and practiced
freely in public. Hinduism is the
predominant religion in India, practiced
by 80 percent of the populace. Muslims
comprise about 10 percent, Christians
about 3 percent, with Sikhs and others
the remainder. At least 90 percent of
the Christian population emerges from
the lower castes, very few are from the
hard to reach upper castes. India has
now surpassed China as the nation with
the fastest growing Christian
population. Since 1951, Lutheran
Hour Ministries has taken on the
challenge of spreading the Good News to
thousands of Indian people. The Lutheran
Hour Ministries - India office has
online newsletters. Several are
available by clicking on these
links: October
2014, February
2015, June
2015, October
2015, February
2016, June
2016, and October 2016
In 2007, our district
undertook a fund raising effort to
provide "Bibles for India". Our
goal was to raise funds for the printing
of 5000 Bibles in the local languages so
the Christian Media Centre, as our
office in India is known, could provide
free Bibles to those who requested
them. The supply of Bibles from
this original project was soon
exhausted, so we continued to raise
funds for this purpose and were able to
provide another $10,000 in 2012.
Next, in
2013 and 2014, our district took on the
project, under the leadership of Trinity
Lutheran Church in Paso Robles, of raising
funds for the Christian Media Centre in
India to provide wells
for clean water in remote
villages. We raised $14,850.27 for
this project from many donors. Thank
you to all who donated.
In October, 2014, LHM
India provided a short
video taken at one of the
wells. Pastor David, the director
of LHM-India provided the following
update in January 2015, including the
translation of what the plaques shown on
the wells say:
By
God’s grace we have completed 7 Bore
wells in different villages.
Everywhere we construct the bore
wells, we see the joy of people and
their gratitude while they use the
bore well. Every village convey their
greetings to all of you in the LHM/CNH
District and also to the young boy
Luke for your generocity in sharing
the love with the under privileged
brothers and sisters living in the
villages in India.
We hope to complete the
project with another two or three bore
wells in the near future. In every
bore well we put the name plate which
reads “Christian Media Centre”
(the curved line at the top), donated
by Vaan Malar (The Indian
identity for the Lutheran Hour
programs in Tamil language), at the
bottom is Chennai – 18, September
2014.
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