2024 Annual Convention
“For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free.”
Registration Now Open!
Hosted by:
Mount Carmel Ministries
800 Mount Carmel Drive NE
Alexandria, MN 56308
Presented by:
Augustana District
335 Main St S.
Hutchinson, MN 55350
“Free in Christ” has arguably been the most notable and referenced theme of LCMC. How is it best understood in the context of the other three LCMC themes (Accountable to One Another, Grounded Scriptures and Confessions, and Carry out the Great Commission)? How is it best understood in the broader context of Galatians? Dr. Steve Turnbull will help us explore these questions.
Then, Pastor Mike Bradley will address the significance of LCMC 3.0 as it relates to districts, specifically in the following areas: Conflict Management, Intentional Interim Ministry, Clergy Shortage/Next-Gen Leaders/Creative Staffing.
Registration Fee's
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Registration Before April 4 $60
per person (Sat Only)
$75 after April 3 -
Registration Before April 4 $165
per person (Fri & Sat)
$180 after April 3 -
Online Streaming $40 per connecxtion
$50 per connection after April 3
Who May Vote?
Who May Attend?
From our Constitution:
5.03. Each congregation shall be entitled to two delegates at all conventions where Augustana business is conducted. Congregations with average worship attendance in excess of 500 shall be entitled to one additional delegate for every additional 250 average worship attendees over the 500 member base. Delegates shall be selected by member congregations pursuant to such internal procedures as member congregations may, from time to time, adopt. The manner of determining how delegates cast votes on behalf of their respective member congregations at conventions shall be determined by the member congregation on whose behalf the delegates are acting. Pastors not identified as delegates by a congregation shall be entitled to voice but not vote at Augustana conventions.
We welcome all people to attend the Augustana District Convention. Participants will register as “Voting delegates,” “Member” or “Guest” as defined below:
Voting Delegate
Voting Delegates of the District Convention are delegates chosen by Member Congregations as outlined above. Please register as a “Voting Delegate.” Delegates have both “voice” and “vote.”
Member Registrant
Member registrants are individuals who belong to member congregations of the Augustana District but are not official delegates. This may include (but is not limited to) pastors who are attending, but who are not designated “delegates” by their church. This category also includes people who are members of an Associate Member Congregation of the Augustana District and people who are Individual Associate Members. “Member” registrants have “voice,” but no “vote.”
Guest Registrant
Guest registrants are individuals attending the district convention who fit neither of the categories above. This category allows us to encourage, and extend a warm welcome to, all interested friends to come and participate.
Date
- Apr 27 2024
- Ongoing...
Time
See Hourly Schedule- All Day
Location
- 800 Mount Carmel Drive NE, Alexandria, MN 56308
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Website
https://www.mountcarmelministries.com/
Speakers
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Pastor Mike BradleyLCMC Service CoordinatorMike brings 40 plus years of leadership and ministry experience, having served in Lutheran congregations in Nebraska (Christ Lutheran Church) and South Dakota (Trinity Lutheran Church) as a youth pastor, worship leader, associate pastor, and senior pastor. He also served as President for The Master’s Institute Seminary for ten years and most recently, as Director for the Alliance of Renewal Churches (ARC). Mike is passionate about helping leaders and congregations create an atmosphere that is a safe place for developing healthy leaders and disciples in the church, and equipping God’s people for lives of effective witness and ministry in the world. He is the author of the book, Being a Safe Place for the Dangerous Kind, in which he articulates the essential connection between solid theology and healthy practice in mission and ministry.
Mike enjoys sports of all kinds, having served as a high school basketball and baseball coach while serving Trinity Lutheran Church in Rapid City, South Dakota. He and his wife of forty-two years, Debi, enjoy reading, hiking, and swimming, and Mike enjoys the occasional golf outing. They have five adult children – Andrew Michael, Joseph Ross, Rachel Christine, Stephen Daniel and Benjamin John, and three grandsons – Michael, Isaac, and Lucas. Mike and Debi live in Gilbert, Arizona with their three-year old white Labrador, Maggie Mae.
