Edina Community Lutheran Church

Pastor Pam Fickenscher, Pastor Carol Mork, Pastor Warren Salveson, Pastor Erik Strand
Office Manager Eileen Supple

Faith Formation

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ECLC declares itself a "peace church"

at Annual Meeting Jan. 27, 2008

An action prompted by ECLC's Peace and Justice Group and recommended by the Council of Ministers was approved by the congregation on Jan. 27, 2008 at its annual meeting. ECLC also will be added to the registry of Every Church A Peace Church.

The Peace and Justice Committee members involved include: LynMarie Berntson, Lisa Finsness, Jane Hayek, Sandy Heidemann,Tom Holm, David Merchant, Sue Lyke, Nancy and John Peterson and Jim Siefkes.

Resources and Background:
“For Peace in God’s World,” social statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, adopted by at a church-wide assembly, August, 1995. http://www.elca.org/SocialStatements/peace/

Every Church a Peace Church National Registry, www.ecapc.org/RegistryForm

The Bienenberg Declaration adopted by a group of Christian churches gathered in Switzerland in May 1999, http://bocs.hu/chp/declar.htm

Lutheran Peace Fellowship web-site and resources, www.lutheranpeace.org

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals help fill in the vision of shalom wherein peace is understood as when all people share in the fullness of life. The goals adopted by 189 nations on September 2000 include:
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) Achieve universal primary education
3) Promote gender equality and empower women
4) Reduce infant mortality
5) Improve maternal health
6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7) Ensure environmental sustainability
8) Develop a global partnership for development.
See: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Welcome to 2007 Sunday school registration!

Registration forms: PDF form belowand Word fill-in format. If you have more than one child between ages 3 and 18 (senior in high school), you can put them on the same form. Please save the form and email it to Rynda at: rcarlis@eclc.org.

Microsoft Word fill-in Sunday school student registration (save and email to esupple@eclc.org)

For more information on Faith Formation, go to:

Faith Formation at ECLC

Much of what we do in – and outside – of the church could be considered "formative" for our faith: worship, service, advocacy, study, prayer, stewardship and fellowship help form us as people of faith. But when we talk about faith formation in the context of Christian education, we mean something more.

Faith formation is the process of intentionally learning how to live and give as disciples of Christ in today's world. Faith formation at ECLC is not a "program" but a dimension of our ministry together that:

addresses the whole person in believing, living and giving, not just the head
addresses the person in relationship, especially in primary relationships of family and in relationship to the faith community
recognizes the milestones of mental, physical and spiritual development
assists parents and sponsors in keeping the promises they have made for their children at baptism
assists adults in continuing to grow in their baptismal promises
avoids the “consumer” model of religious services by involving the whole faith community in education and formation.