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Synod 2012 date and venue is announced - please see the Synod page for full details.

The latest guidance from the Charity Commission for Trustees (Council Members of Congregations) is available here:  http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/About_us/About_the_Commission/newslist.aspx

Rev. Dr. William Chang, Asia Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation Department for Mission and Development, will preach at the London Chinese Lutheran Congregation on 5th February, 2012. Service will start at 2 p.m. Sermon will be given in English with Cantonese / Mandarin translation. More details to follow.

 

CTE Presidents Sign a Personal Covenant |  Bishop Jana, together with the three other Presidents of Churches Together in England (CTE), has signed a Personal Covenant committing to work towards "the visible unity of the Church of Jesus Christ in the one faith, expressed in common discipleship, worship, witness and service.”  For the full text of the covenant please click here.  The Presidents of CTE are The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury; The Most Revd Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster; The Revd Michael Heaney, Moderator of the Free Churches Group; The Rt Revd Jana Jeruma-Grinberga of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. 

Lutheran World Information has published an interesting article about LCiGB Chair David Lin and the London Chinese Lutheran Church - click here 

St Anne's Lutheran Church London | On 8 July 2011 the Lutheran Church in Great Britain withdrew its permission for Timothy Dearhamer to serve as a pastor of the LCiGB.  The LCiGB's decision was upheld by an independent appeal board on 9 September 2011.  The Council of St Anne's Lutheran Church dismissed Mr Dearhamer as the senior pastor of the congregation on 8 October 2011 and its decision was upheld on appeal.  Mr Dearhamer is not eligible to serve as a pastor of the LCiGB in any congregation or in any capacity.  Please remember the members of St Anne's Lutheran Church and the Dearhamer family in your prayers.  At present, responsibility for pastoral care at St Anne's is being exercised by the Revd Tumaini Kallaghe. To contact St Anne's Council, please email the Trustees, or see the new website. 

Change for Church! We are gathering back in the "Change for Church" collection boxes for our 50th Anniversary Appeal. Please hand your box in to your congregation's Treasurer, who will forward the donations to us. For more details please email Rosanna. 

Communiqé of the Porvoo Communion Primates and Presiding Bishops' Meeting, Llandaff, October 2011 - click here 

St Mark's congregation in Birmingham has a new website  http://www.bhamlutheran.co.uk/Home.html  

Lutherans Up North | Download the latest newsletter of Lutherans Up North and their Autumn Timetable 

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