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Overview
Adult Forum provides learning opportunities about the Bible and our beliefs, fosters understanding of those who hold other beliefs, and raises awareness of, and participation in, our witness to the community and the world. Adult forum also presents topics that help us to become informed on ethical issues, and relates them to our Christian faith. Selected forums are videotaped. All Bible and theology studies, most topics which are continued on subsequent Sundays, and selected other topics that the coordinator believes have long-term interest, will be catalogued in the same way as the books in our library. Other forum videotapes will be labeled, placed on the shelf, and be saved for six months. You are welcome to borrow them on the honor system. Please do take advantage of this opportunity to view forums you might have missed. Some of our members watch them while exercising! |
Schedule WELCOME
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PLEASE JOIN US SUNDAY MORNINGS 9:45 - 10:45 November 16: Pastor Eastman will present on the ELCA understanding of the Christian's responsibility to participate in public life, how we engage political leaders and issues, and what the latest statements from the ELCA have to say about politics and public life. November 23: New Member Reception no forum November 30: Ashley Fuqua and Eric Huff, St. Paul members, will discuss the “School of the Americas”, a government funded program that is affiliated with the U.S. Army. The operation is located at Fort Benning, Georgia where students from Latin American countries are trained in assassination and torture techniques. Trained assassins are currently being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to campus ministry staff at Augustana where Ashley is a student. Eric, who attends Carthage College, has participated in the annual protest at the SOA; and will be able to share personal testimonies about what he saw and learned there. December 7: Pastor Williamson will offer an introduction to "Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible," a five-year initiative taking place throughout the ELCA that invites the whole church "to become more fluent in the first language of faith, the language of Scripture, in order that we might live into our calling as a people renewed, enlivened, empowered, and sent by the Word." Participants are encouraged to bring suggestions and ideas for enhancing our study of the Bible at St. Paul, so that we can begin implementing this promising initiative in our own community. December 14: Charlie Boone, St. Paul member, will present fine art slides of Advent and Nativity themes. We will see the insights of artists of all periods expressed in their paintings. Charlie has an extensive collection of slides of religious fine art, and we always look forward to his presentations. December 21: No Sunday School or Forum December 28: No Sunday School or Forum January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2009: The Reverend Fred Reklau, St. Paul member, will discuss the Wisdom Literature in the Hebrew Bible. The study will include the books of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiasticus, the Song of Songs (or Solomon), as well as the Apocrypha, or intertestamental, books of Ecclesiasticus (aka Sirach) and the Wisdom of Solomon. The resource text is Lawrence Boadt's Reading the Old Testament, ch. 23. It is not necessary to have read the reference book in order to appreciate the class. Bring your Bibles - preferably ones including the Old Testament Apocrypha. |