Prayer requests  
Dates to remember  
Various updates 

Prayer requests

Please keep in your prayers/petitions:

• Rev. Peter Schmidt, Beautiful Savior, Waukesha, recovering from eye surgery.

Dates to remember

• Sept. 4, 2007 — Circuit counselors’ meeting, District office
• Sept. 6-12, 2007 — Council of presidents, St. Louis 
• Sept. 21, 2007 — Wheat Ridge wellness day, Brookfield 
• Sept. 29, 2007 — SWD fall fiscal conference, Milwaukee Lutheran High School 
• Oct. 5-6, 2007 — Mother/daughter church planting seminar. Fond Du Lac
• Oct. 29-31, 2007 — SWD pastors’ conference, Heidel House, Green Lake
• Nov. 13-15, 2007 — Council of presidents, Dallas
• Nov. 22, 2007 — Thanksgiving

Various updates

• SWD executive team contacts
  • Missions and evangelism: Dan McMiller 
  • Schools, youth and family: Gary Janetzke, with regional superintendents Gene Ladendorf, Roger Laesch, Dennis Vierk, and David Jording
  • Stewardship: Tim Dittloff
  • Human care/older adult: Jim Farrelly
  • Business manager: vacant
• Consecrated stewards is an LCEF stewardship effort aimed at the educating people as total stewards. For more information contact Tim Dittloff.
• Business manager: We are looking for a person to fill the role of business manager for the District. Job description includes experience with accounting and budgets, an understanding of church structure, working with the various boards/committees, ability to work with staff, working with congregational treasurers regarding tax and budget issues. If you know of someone who might be interested in working at this level, please pass his/her name along.
• Fall fiscal conference, Saturday, Sept. 29 at Milwauke Lutheran High School: This is something completely new. It’s a day set aside to discuss the SWD budget, stewardship resources, salary guidelines, the latest from Concordia Health Plans, fiscal responsibility both at the congregational and District levels, as well mission opportunities both in SWD and elsewhere. Mark it on your calendar. Pastors and congregational leaders are encouraged to attend. For more information click here or contact the District office.
• SETS/PIFS: Pastors: if you haven’t updated your SET or your PIF lately, now is the time to do so. Please get the new SET CD from Arleen Johnson and the PIF that needs to be updated by hand and returned to Arleen.
• Fan Into Flame update: Most of the congregations who involved in FIF are well on their way to completing the process. A continuation committee is being formed. If your congregation would still like to get involved, please contact Peg Raabe at the District office. She will send you the materials. 
• THANK YOU! I want to thank all our SWD congregations and pastors who have honored your financial commitments to our District. The dollars that are shared are valued highly, and used in the work of extending our Lord’s kingdom. The response has been fantastic!
• 2008 SWD budget: You may remember that to balance our 2007 SWD budget, a deep reduction was made in our commitment to our national work. However, we made the commitment to get back to where we were previously. That begins with the 2008 SWD budget. We are increasing our percentage for national work from 10 percent to 15 percent. In the coming years that percentage will continue to grow.
• From Dr. LeRoy Hass for consideration at circuit winkels: "A Prescription for Emotional Health: Regular Doses of Metanoiade." Negative emotions often burden us and interfere with good relationships. Positive emotions can be good for us and enhance our relationships. A cognitive theory of emotions will be used to highlight the relationship between our cognitions (thoughts, beliefs) and emotions. "The anger triad: An outline of the biblical portrayal of anger":
  • God's righteous anger toward we humans
  • Our own anger toward God and neighbor
  • Others' anger toward us and God