Rev. Tom Norwalk to be Guest Speaker at St. John UCC, February 17

 

[February 13, 2019] 

On Sunday, February 17th The Rev. Tom Norwalk, Association Minister of the Western Association of the United Church of Christ will deliver the message at the 10:00 a.m. service at St. John UCC 204 7th Street in Lincoln, Illinois. His message will be informative on the Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola (IECA) with which the Illinois Conference of the UCC has had a fourteen year partnership. The IECA is a growing denomination of 1.5 million people and over 2000 churches with ties to the American and Canadian missionaries.

This ministry has taken on the legacy of the Dondi Mission Station who prior to 1975, when Angola earned their independence from Portugal was the leader of education for life, faith, work and citizenship. Since 2002, the end of the civil war in the country IECA is opening its university to strengthen the outreach of the church. One of its needs is Hymnals, which they can obtain for $3 each and will be a Mission project of the churches of Illinois.

A potluck lunch in the Fellowship Hall of the church will follow the worship service when Rev. Norwalk will be available for more information and to answer some questions. The Public is welcome to attend the worship service and program.

Additional support of the Hymnals Program will be the recipients of the Fundraiser that evening at Culver’s in Lincoln. Members of LCHS Honor Society will join the Missions Ministry of St. John United Church of Christ at a fundraiser at Culver’s in Lincoln that evening, Sunday, February 17. Culver’s will donate 10% of all proceeds from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. to the Hymnals for Angola.

[Tonita Reifsteck]