September MeetingThursday, September 3, 2015—12:00 noon Click here
to RSVP for Luncheon Saint Luke Lutheran Church
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. * * * 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
Click here to read 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 congregations—friendships that last for decades! Won’t you join us? Received this notice in error?Effective August 2011, the previous month's Meeting Minutes will be posted in the ARCHIVE section of our website, www.LutheranLayFellowship.org and the only hardcopy available will be at the next month's meeting. Meeting Announcements will continue to be mailed to dues-paying members who do not have an E-mail address. If you are not interested in receiving notices from the LLF, please reply to this note with a subject line of REMOVE and if applicable, specify who in your congregation should receive notices. |
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