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  • C3 Team
Leaf Raking Message from the C3 Team

This is a C3 team reminder for those with a lawn to start thinking about getting your rake out next month and raking leaves before they end up in storm water drains.

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  • Fine Arts Ministry Team
New Central Art Show Celebrates Indigenous Lutheran Artists

Central’s Fine Arts Team is excited to present this special showing of art from Lutheran artists who are Indigenous North Americans. This exhibit is meant to both acknowledge and celebrate the breadth and beauty of Indigenous contributions to the Lutheran faith.

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  • Generosity Ministry Team
Central’s Generosity Shines Through Again

The housewares drive for the Restoration Center’s Welcome Baskets was announced in the Spirit. The response was, as usual for Central, overwhelming.

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  • Rev. Peter Nycklemoe
Pastor Judith Stone to Retire

Pastor Judith has decided to retire from her role as one of the visitation pastors here at Central.

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  • Brenda Blackhawk
The New Presiding Bishop of the ELCA

Last week, ELCA voting members (clergy, deacons and lay leaders) gathered in Phoenix, AZ for the Churchwide Assembly. The Rev. Yehiel Curry was elected July 30 to serve a six-year term as presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). We at Central are excited to host Bishop-elect Curry’s installation on Saturday, October 4.

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  • Rev. Stephanie Friesen
Looking Back on this Summer’s Youth Trips

The 2025 summer trips are complete and all participants are home with stories to last a lifetime. The Amnicon crew paddled for four days on the Flambeau and spent their final night next to a warm fire under the stars on the south shore of Lake Superior.

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  • Dave Rodriguez
Summer Facilities Projects Updates

While many of you have been out enjoying this beautiful Minnesota summer, we have been making the most of our time during the lull in the program year. In keeping with the philosophy of being kind to our future selves, we continue to cross off projects on our long-term “to do” list.

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  • Fine Arts Ministry Team
New Art Show at Central

The Fine Arts Ministry Team presents a new art show in the South Entry Hall: Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa). Take a moment to learn more about this awesome new show! Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa) was an initiative undertaken in the 1970s to help teach the Gospel in Northern Cameroon. The initiative was spearheaded by French Catholic missionary François Vidil. He worked with Mafa Christian communities in Cameroon to create a catalogue of paintings depicting the life of Jesus as an African man…

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  • Brenda Blackhawk
The New Website is Here!

After a year and a half of hard work by the staff and the Website Redesign Team, the new website is here! The incredible design team worked hard to make a site that is appealing, informative, easy to use, and tells Central’s story. Here are some things to know about the new website: It is not done! All of the main pages are complete and functioning. But there are many second-level information pages that will remain in development over the summer. We are releasing an incomplete website over the slower…

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