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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

June 22, 2001

WORSHIP SERVICES TO BE HELD DAILY AT 2001 CHURCHWIDE ASSEMBLY
01-170-MM*

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Services of Holy Eucharist will be celebrated
at the churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA), Aug. 8-14, in Indianapolis.
     At the opening service, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 4:30 p.m., the Rev.
H. George Anderson, presiding bishop of the ELCA, will preside and
the Rev. Susan R Briehl, Spokane, Wash., will preach.  The service
will feature a choir of congregations representing the ELCA 
Indiana-Kentucky Synod.
     The presiding bishop-elect of the ELCA, who will be elected
during the assembly, will preside at the Holy Eucharist, Monday, Aug.
13, 7:30 p.m.  Anderson will preach.  The praise band, Table 4
Twelve, Hebron Lutheran Church, Hebron, Ky., and the Lutheran Music
Program will be featured.
     Other services are:
     +Thursday, Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m.  The Rev. Patricia Garner, a
pastor with the Moravian Church in America, Winston-Salem, N.C., will
preside; Dr. Jon Moline, president of Texas Lutheran University,
Seguin, Texas, will preach.  A churchwide assembly choir will sing.
Music before the service will be provided by David Michael Carillo,
Gentle Wind Music, Indianapolis.
     + Friday, Aug.10, 5:30 p.m.  The Rev. Andrew J. Yee,
Bellingham, Wash., will preside; the Rev. Donna M. Wright, Omaha,
Neb., will preach.  A youth choir from Trinity English Lutheran
Church, Fort Wayne, Ind., will sing.
     +Saturday, Aug. 11, 5:30 p.m.  The Rev. Francisco L. Sosa,
bishop of the ELCA Caribbean Synod, Dorado, Puerto Rico, will
preside; the Rev. Ann Svennungsen, Moorhead, Minn., will preach.  The
Lutheran Summer Music Assembly Choir, made up of voting members and
visitors, will sing.  Music will be provided by musicians from
Lutheran Summer Music.  This service will feature a bilingual liturgy
in Spanish and English.
     + Sunday, Aug. 12, 10:30 a.m.  The Rev. Margaret G. Payne,
bishop of the ELCA New England Synod, Worcester, Mass., will preside;
the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.), will preach.  The New City Parish Gospel Choir, Los
Angeles, will sing.  Music will be provided by the Lutheran Summer
Music Instrumentalists.
     The Rev. Jan O. Flaaten, Phoenix, will preside and the Rev. O.
Dennis Mims, East Cleveland, Ohio, will preach for a Service of the
Word on the final day of the assembly, Tuesday, Aug. 14.
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     More information is at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly site at
http://www.elca.org/assembly/01/index.html on the Web.

*Michelle Mills is a senior at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.  This
summer she is an intern with the ELCA News and Information.

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