¡Buen Viaje (Good Travels)! The Western Iowa Synod is about to embark on its first group trip to visit one of its companion synods, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (IELCH)! The travel dates are March 24 to April 8, 2014. We look forward to meeting and getting to know each other in the days to come.
The companion synod relationship between ELCA's WIS and IELCH began in 2012 and exists for the purpose of strengthening one another for life and mission within the body of Christ. It offers us the privilege of participating in the life of another church through prayer, study, communications, and exchange of persons and resources. We pray that it will open our eyes to the global challenges that Christ offers us today through an involvement with a church of another culture and it calls us to deepen our commitment and discipleship as individual persons and as a community of faith.
Please pray for our travelers from the WIS and the Indiana-Kentucky Synod as we embark on this pilgrimage and journey of faith with our sisters and brothers in Christ in Chile: Bishop Rodger and Christine Prois (WIS); Pr. Rod and Renae Hopp (Immanuel, Forest City); Pr. Bob and Dee Vaage (First, West Okoboji); Mary Rippke (First, West Okoboji); Pr. Arlyn Norris (WIS Companion Synods Network Chair); Jim & Marilyn Fevold (Our Saviour's, Humboldt), Stan Bochtler (St. Mark, Storm Lake); Joy and Ronald Young (St. Paul, Treynor); Gail Bauler (Bethlehem, Cherokee); David Hickman (Bethlehem, Cherokee); Cindy Wells (WIS Director for Global Mission); and Pr. Chris Duckworth and Pr. Carolyn Lesmeiser (Indiana-Kentucky Synod).
"That they may all be One." John 17:21a
Travel safe!
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