September
Meeting
Thursday, September 3, 201512:00 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 "Sarge" Sargeant President, Lutheran
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Business Meeting
Over the past few years, the Lutheran Lay Fellowship has experienced a
marked decrease in monthly luncheon attendance. Securing persons willing to
assume leadership positions has become difficult. The LLF Leadership
interviewed opinion leaders to solicited ideas to address these problems. Some
of the suggestions have been implemented. President Sargeant reported on these
conversations at the June luncheon. If you did not attend that meeting, please
read the
June 2015 Minutes. The Executive Committee has
formulated two possible options for the future. They are presented in his
letter to the LLF Membership in his
August 17 Letter. The options provide the discussion
points for consideration at the September meeting.
Based on discussions in November 2013 and June 2015, it has been
determined that there is not enough interest in continuing the guest speaker
luncheons in Silver Spring on the first Thursday of the month. No matter which
option is chosen, monthly luncheons will end with the December luncheon.
Members will be asked to vote on the future of LLF at this September
2015 meeting.
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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 or by contacting Vicki Porter at
301-229-9884 no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1. The cost of the
meal is $9.00, payable at the door.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
October 1 - Pay-what-you-can Community Cafe Concept November 5 -
Celebration of LLFs History December 3 - Christmas
Celebration Note: There will be no luncheon meetings in
2016.
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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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