Brick By Brick - Presentation
Maybe it’s your own home. Maybe it’s a complete gut and remodel that will give you that ever-popular open-concept floorplan. Maybe it’s a careful restoration – refinishing the hardwood floors that the green shag carpet had been covering for decades and removing the plaster on one of the walls in a living room to expose the red bricks behind it creating a warm and inviting accent wall. Maybe it’s simply cosmetic – a new light fixture, fresh paint, new knobs on the cupboards & new pulls on the drawers.
But maybe it’s your church. No, not the carpet or the pews. Not updating the chandeliers or moving to LED in the entryway. Not putting in much wanted member mailboxes or getting rid of never-used member mailboxes. And, no, not a new sign on the corner or fresh landscaping around the perimeter. No. We’re talking about your congregation’s ministry.
Whether your congregation is 100 years old or ten, whether your congregation has 500 members or 50, whether your congregation is in the city or in the country; on the plains or in the mountains; whether your congregation has a school, had a school, wants a school, or will never have a school, this district convention is for you. Whether you congregation’s ministry needs a complete gut and remodel or a restoration of what it once was and maybe can be again or just some light sanding and a fresh coat of paint for a new look, then this district convention is for you, dear Pastor, dear Teacher, dear Lay Delegate.
“Brick by Brick” will walk all of us through 1.) The Importance and Blessings of Having a Solid Foundation, 2.) The Importance and Blessings of Having a Clear Blueprint, and 3.) The Importance and Need of Having Trained Called Workers. We will work in groups. We will be paired with men from congregations with similar settings and ministries. We will focus on “Gathering & Serving” and on “Planning & Equipping” and on “Training & Calling” with the goal of taking something home that we can share and perhaps implement in our home congregations. May God bless our time together to that end.
It is one of the blessings of our national church body that regularly (every other year, in these district conventions) every single congregation, through its pastor and its lay delegate and its male teachers (if it has them), can critique and then comment on the work of our national church body formally at the district conventions.
- District President, Pastor Phil Hirsch
“The district shall meet in convention to further Lutheran doctrine and practice; to receive new congregations, pastors, and male teachers into the district; to conduct elections; and to review and provide reaction to the reports of the synod president regarding the activities of the synod. Occasionally, the convention may need to conduct discipline and hear appeals.”
-WELS Nebraska District Constitution