The Old Church

Heritage Day at Organ Lutheran Church
Saturday, May 19, 2012
7:30 until 3:00
7:30-9:30 country ham breakfast
9:00-2:00 bake sale
10:00-2:00 demonstrations
11:00-2:00 chicken dumplings & hotdogs
2:00 entertainment by the chapeleers

A cooking, gardening, summer fun and night on the town basket will be raffled.

The historical foundation will raffle hand carved spoons and bowls made from a dogwood tree from the church property.

Come, take a step back in time with crafts and demonstrations of life from the past: weavers, quilters, candle making, blacksmith.

Tours of the old church will also be given.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Click the thumbnail graphic above for a poster of events going on at Christiana Lutheran the weekend of May 18-20. We’re calling it “Festival in the Grove.” We will be having events going on under a big tent in the grove of trees beside the church. It begins with a movie “The End of the Spear” on Friday evening at 8pm. A movie for young children will be in the church at 7pm. On Saturday evening we have the band “One Road Home” performing in concert at 6pm. On Sunday morning our 10:30am worship service will be outside. Then, beginning at 6:30pm we will have a youth rally. Two bands, “Broken Yesterday” and “Relentless Flood,” will be performing. Also the Youth Drama troop called “CHAOS” from China Grove/Landis, NC, will also perform. We want to invite you to all the events, but in particular, to invite your youth, middle through high school, to attend the youth rally. We will be serving popcorn and soft drinks on Friday and Sunday and we will have homemade ice cream on Saturday evening. To all the events you will need to bring your own outdoor chair. Freewill offerings will be received for the bands. Christiana’s address, for GPS purposes, is 6190 US Hwy 52, Salisbury, NC 28146.

I realize too that this will be too far away for some of you, but can be an idea of something to do in your area to reach out to the community.

God bless you in your ministry at your church. If you have events going on please let me and Pr. Mark Ryman (our webmaster for the Carolinas Mission District) know so I can send out an email and he can put it on the website. Be sure to check out our website at http://carolinasnalc.org

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Carl
Pastor Carl M. Haynes
Christiana Lutheran Church
Dean of the Carolinas Mission District of the North American Lutheran Church

Evangelism Training, March 2012

This past November five of our members at Reformation Lutheran Church in New Bern, NC, attended the Revitalization Conference at Lake Junaluska. At the conference, we teamed up with Pastor David Hefner, who was the pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church in PA, since he was the only attendee from his church. We found the conference spiritual, uplifting, and motivating. At the end of the training, we talked about getting together when we returned to New Bern to discuss how to implement some of the ideas at Reformation. Within a few weeks, the Revitalization attendees met and came up with some ideas. These ideas were presented to the church council and agreed upon. Since Pastor Hefner offered to drive to New Bern to provide the Evangelism Training, we were excited to use him as our trainer.

Evangelism Training, March 2012

The date was set for Saturday March 3rd and began at 9:00 a.m. for a six hour training session. We were blessed by St. Bartholomew Anglican Church, who has been a great help to our mission congregation in many ways, including joint worship at Advent. They gave us full use of their church and even had one of their members attend our training. Pastor Hefner provided some very good information and delivered it in a way that kept everyone’s attention.

Pastor David Hefner

We expect this to be just the beginning of our training as we learn how to be a better mission outreach church and better at sharing our faith.

Mike Corriher
Council President
Reformation Lutheran Church