February
Meeting
Thursday, February 6, 201412:00 noon
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to RSVP for Luncheon or send E-mail to
luncheon@LutheranLayFellowship.org
Saint Luke Lutheran Church 9100 Colesville Road at
Dale Drive Silver Spring, MD 20910
Bob Francis Director of Advocacy and
Policy Lutheran Services in America (LSA) |
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The
Best Kept Secret in the Lutheran World
Bob Francis serves as the Director of Advocacy and Policy for Lutheran
Services in America (LSA), a national organization that links over 300 Lutheran
health and human service organizations across the U.S. and the Caribbean.
Lutheran Services in America (LSA), founded in 1997, exists to champion
Lutheran social ministry by building valuable connections, amplifying our
voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer God's call to love
and serve our neighbor. LSA envisions a network of connected, strong and
thriving Lutheran social ministries that transform the lives of people and
communities.
Bob will be sharing about Lutheran Services in Americas work in
advocacy and public policy, including LSAs unique practice-based approach
to advocacy. Bob will examine how LSAs work in advocacy similar to and
different from other faith-based groups, such as the ELCA and Bread for the
World. Bob will also look back at the year in policy from 2013 and look ahead
at what 2014 might bring. Bob will give special attention to health care and
the Affordable Care Act, which has significantly changed the landscape for many
LSA member organizations.
Before joining LSA, Bob worked on advocacy and policy for the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Sojourners. He came to Washington,
DC from Chicago, where he worked in many roles, including high school teacher,
case manager and server of Chicago-style pizza. He holds a B.A. in Sociology
and Theological Studies from Wheaton College (IL) and an M.A. in Social Science
from the University of Chicago. Bob is a compulsive list maker, a proud
resident of Steeler Nation, and an (occasionally) avid runner. Originally from
Pennsylvania, Bob now lives with his wife Rev. Yvette Schock of Faith
Lutheran in Arlington, Virginia. They are expecting their first child in
early January!
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We invite all Lutherans and their friends to join us for
this luncheon meeting of Lutheran Lay Fellowship, scheduled for the first
Thursday of each month from 12:00 noon till 2:00 p.m. at Saint Luke Lutheran
Church, 9100 Colesville Road at Dale Drive in Silver Spring, one mile south of
the Capitol Beltway at Exit 30. Ample off-street parking is available.
Interested persons can make reservations for a delicious lunch by sending their
RSVP to luncheon@lutheranlayfellowship.org by contacting Vicki Porter at
301-229-9884 or no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4. The cost of the
meal is $9.00, payable at the door.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
March 6 - Pastor David Berg leading a discussion on "Killing Jesus"
best-seller book by Bill O'Reilly April 3 - Dr. Mike Maxey, President of
Roanoke College May 1 - Pastor Amy Sevimli from the Metro DC Synod, ELCA
Click here to read January's meeting minutes
What is the Lutheran
Lay Fellowship?
LLF is an organization for women and men, both lay and clergy, active in
the Nation's Capital area. As early as 1936, feeling there was a definite
need for closer cooperation between Lutheran laity and clergy, a group of
laymen in the Washington, DC. Metropolitan area, organized to hold meetings
that would bring pastors and laity closer together. Due to jurisdictional
differences as well as ministerial difficulties, very little success was
achieved until the fall of 1941. Then the group met and decided to hold a
luncheon once a month, invite their friends and bring visitors. The first
luncheon was a success, and within three months every Lutheran judicatory was
represented
[From a Lutheran Directory of Metropolitan
Washington, DC, published in 1999.]
Today, more than 70 years later, the Lutheran Lay Fellowship of
Metropolitan Washington takes pride in knowing that every night, 365 nights
each year, more than 700 low income seniors and disabled persons live in safety
and friendship in four high rises owned and managed by Fellowship Square
Foundation, Inc. By means of annual scholarships and grants, LLF also supports
various college and seminary students; it also provides ushering services for
major inter-Lutheran events. But most of all, LLF is known far and wide as a
place to hear stimulating speakers on timely topics and to make friends from
other Lutheran congregationsfriendships that last for decades!
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