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by Pastor Lisa Kipp This month a team of six from Zumbro will set forth on our congregation’s annual pilgrimage to visit our mission partners at Iambi Lutheran Hospital in central Tanzania. Each member of this group was a part of our visiting team last year and will be returning with specific roles to fill… On Saturday, Dec. 1, 2019, we once again joined together as a congregation to present a traditional event to the greater Rochester community. Organized by the Zumbro Women of the ELCA (ZWELCA), but supported by volunteers from the entire congregation, our day of honoring our Scandinavian traditions, and celebrating as a faith community is now… Read it today! Zumbro Lutheran will be soon be filled with the sights, sounds, and tastes of the holidays! Plan to attend the annual Christmas Bazaar! This cherished event is usually held on the first Saturday in December. Events will be held between 9am-2pm, including a meatball luncheon, lefse sales, coffee house, family activities, and sales (attic treasures,… Read it today! We are having a congregational visioning event on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 9-11am. We’re calling it “A Vision for 2019 and Beyond.” I hope you will make every effort to be there. For the last few months, the building mission and visioning teams, along with the church council and program staff, have been exploring Zumbro’s… For years Zumbro has been sending youth and adults out into the world on short-term mission trips. What kind of impact do these trips have on participants and those being served? And is it all good? Come to hear what Pastor Lisa learned from her research, including information gleaned from an extensive survey responded to… At 2pm on Saturday, Sept. 15, we will celebrate Zumbro member Madison Chelberg’s call to the ministry of Word and Sacrament. You can watch and participate in the celebration worship here! httpss://youtu.be/agBabGBuRk4 Earlier this summer Pastor Lisa spent one month of her sabbatical traveling around Tanzania and visiting our mission partners at Iambi Lutheran Hospital. At September 9th’s ZED Talks, she shared lessons learned from her time in Africa. She also shared updates about the exciting ways God is at work at Iambi Lutheran Hospital. September 9-October 17 As we head into the fall, we plan to take a deeper look at the basics of our faith. In our fast-paced world, with information coming at us from every direction, it can be easy to lose sight of what it is we believe and why it’s important for our identity and… Read it today! A Letter to the Congregation from Pastor Vern Christopherson A big thank you to all who took part in the Missional Assessment Profile (MAP). The assessment was administered by Tom Jolivette of Kairos and Associates. We had 419 respondents. Of those respondents, almost three-fourths had been at Zumbro 10 years or longer. And close to… During the annual meeting (February 4 at 9:15am), Zumbro’s voting members will be asked to approve changes to Zumbro Lutheran Church’s Constitution. This action is needed because of additions to the Model Constitution for Congregations of the ELCA made by the churchwide assembly in 2016. Copies of our constitution with those changes are available here. If you… Read their blog posts from the trips: Middle School: Lake Traverse, South Dakota High School: Montego Bay, Jamaica
Pilgrimage to Iambi Hospital
Another Bazaar Success
The Zumbro Current – December 2018
Christmas Bazaar
The Zumbro Current – November 2018
A Vision for 2019 and Beyond Conversation Video
A Vision for 2019 and Beyond
The Impact of Short-Term Mission Trips
Ordination of Madison (Lenz) Chelberg
Lessons Learned from a Month in Tanzania
Sermon Series: Back to the Basics
The Zumbro Current – September 2018
Missional Assessment Profile (MAP) Results and Next Steps
Proposed Constitution Changes
2017 Mission Trip Video