Results of ballot #3 are as follows:
Bill Rindy: 272
Jeff Sandgren: 179
Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl: 107
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Jeff Sandgren and Bill Rindy will be on the next ballot, scheduled today at 2:15 p.m.
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Results of ballot #2 are as follows:
Jeff Sandgren: 164
Bill Rindy: 124
Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl: 78
Bruce Vold: 60
Naomi Garber: 51
H. Chris Hallanger: 46
Steve Wold: 44
The top 3 nominees will be on the next ballot. Ballot #3 is scheduled for Sunday, April 6 at 12:00 p.m.
Watch the Eastern North Dakota Synod website for more news from the 2008 Synod Assembly.
Results of ballot #1 are as follows:
Number of legal votes cast: 583
Number of legal voted needed for election on this ballot (75%): 438
Jeff Sandgren: 119
Bill Rindy: 93
Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl: 83
Bruce Vold: 82
Naomi Garber: 71
H. Chris Hallanger: 52
Steve Wold: 46
Philip Larson: 37
The top 7 nominees will participate at a bishop nominee forum at 4:15 p.m. at the Fargo Civic Center.
Ballot #2 is scheduled for today at 7:00 p.m. Watch the Eastern North Dakota Synod website for more news from the 2008 Synod Assembly.
This homily, written by Bishop Rick Foss, is available for use by congregations in the Eastern North Dakota Synod on Synod Assembly Sunday (April 6, 2008).
» Download the sermon: The Emmaus Road (download pdf file)
No one really knows where the town of Emmaus was. I think four villages currently claim the distinction. Nobody knows much about Cleopas or the other disciple who was with him on the road to Emmaus that Easter Day. But Emmaus will always be remembered, because Luke preserved for us the encounter on that road between Jesus and two crestfallen men.
You remember the story. They were crushed. They had pinned their hopes on Jesus, and now he was dead- and all was lost. I don’t know what was taking them to Emmaus. Maybe they just needed to clear their heads and get out of town.
In any case, as they plodded along and tried to make sense of that awful last week, a stranger fell in with them. As they rehashed what had happened to Jesus and to them, the stranger asked, “What are you talking about?” I don’t think they were very polite or patient, and I don’t know what they were thinking when the stranger began to tell them what it all meant.
I would love to have been there, listening, as Jesus retold the familiar stories, but from the vantage point of the power of the resurrection Continue reading…
On April fifth and sixth 750 Lutherans will gather at the Fargo Civic Memorial Auditorium for the 21st Annual Eastern North Dakota Synod Assembly. The theme is Let Mutual Love Continue: Living As God’s Abundant Gifts. Registration begins at 7:00 am Saturday. Bishop Rick Foss will preach at the Opening Worship at 8:30 am.
Featured speakers include Dr. Roland (Rollie) Martinson and Dr. Diane Jacobson both from Luther Seminary. Rollie’s time will focus on Continue reading…
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