ELCA News Blog
April 4, 2007
Online registration now open for Worship Jubilee 2007
by Melissa Ramirez Cooper, ELCA News Service
Online registration is open for Worship Jubilee 2007, an event celebrating the renewal of worship in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Taking place Aug. 3-6 at Navy Pier in Chicago, Worship Jubilee will feature keynote presentations, worship, workshops and educational opportunities for children. Pre-Jubilee events will take place Aug. 2-3. They include visiting some of Chicago's churches for "pilgrimage and prayer" on April 3.
"Jubilee is an opportunity to celebrate the publication of Evangelical Lutheran Worship with thousands (of members) from across the ELCA, experience and be nourished by diverse worship, stimulating presentations, enjoy Chicago's lakefront and find refreshment and renewal, and learn practical skills in many areas of worship planning and leadership," said Scott C. Weidler, ELCA associate in ministry and associate director for worship and music. He said the event is for "everyone committed to the worship life of the church."
Evangelical Lutheran Worship -- the ELCA and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's (ELCIC) new primary book of worship -- is an outcome of a project initiated by the ELCA Church Council in 2000 to renew the worship life of the ELCA. The "Renewing Worship" project invited the 4.85-million-member ELCA and the 182,077 members of the ELCIC to discuss, explore, review and engage new worship materials. The ELCIC began its participation in Renewing Worship in 2001. Evangelical Lutheran Worship is published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Minneapolis, the publishing ministry of the ELCA.
Online registration
http://www.ELCA.org/worship/jubilee/registration.html For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog