Holland America Line
Alaska Cruise & The Canadian Rockies
15 Days Join other Lutherans departs June 26, 2012 from $2198* Your Lutheran Chaplain: Pastor Doug Gunkelman
Visit the last of the wilderness-like areas in North America all from the comfort of your deluxe motor coach and cruise ship. Fly into Seattle for a night, then drive through Washington’s evergreen forests past stunning mountains to Vancouver, B.C., where you’ll board your 5-STAR cruise ship the ms Volendam, for your seven-day Holland America Line cruise. Travel through a wondrous maze of forested-island and glacier-carved fords, past charming coastal villages, migrating whales and calving glaciers to Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, and Ketchikan. From Vancouver you’ll start your scenic six-day motor coach tour to Calgary. You’ll visit Kamloops, BC; Jasper and Jasper National Park; Banff and Banff National Park; Columbia Ice Fields; Lake Louise; Athabasca Glacier; Bow Falls; and Calgary. Travel with other Lutherans and your YMT chaplain Doug Gunkelman, pastor of Divinity Lutheran Church in Parma Hgts., Ohio for 8 years. Pastor Gunkelman has been in the Lutheran ministry for 26 years. Call for his letter and phone number.
Elegant Danube River Cruise 14 Days Join other Lutherans departing September 17, 2012 from $2698*
Enjoy the YMT chartered, 4-star ship, the “TUI Melodia”! Round trip cruise from Passau … PLUS tour Germany!
Start in Munich, Germany for one-night. Then travel to Schwangau and a guided tour of the famous Neuschwanstein (Disneyland) Castle and Rothenburg o.d. Tauber for an overnight stay. The following day you will leave for the Czech Republic stopping in Plzen, where Pilsner beer was created with an included brewery tour; followed by Bohemia and Prague. Spend the next day sightseeing before you embark. Your cruise includes the Danube’s highlights including Melk and Vienna, Austria (the classical city of music); Esztergom and Budapest Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Linz, Austria; before returning to Passau. Travel back to Munich with additional sightseeing, before flying home. Your “brand new” ship the TUI Melodia, constructed in 2011, offers a state-of-the-art, experience! Price includes (very limited) outside Porthole. *Add $300 per person for French Balcony.
Autumn Leaves Tour
14 Days Join other Lutherans departing September 28, 2012 from Your Lutheran Chaplain: Pastor Ude
$1598*
Start in Philadelphia and enjoy a historic city sightseeing tour including the Liberty Bell and Indepen- dence Hall. The following day your scenic tour begins offering spectacular and colorful vistas through Amish Country to Gettysburg where you will see the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Continue traveling north with a stop at the Corning Museum of Glass into Ontario and awe-inspiring Niagara Falls for two nights. Then head back to upstate New York where you will board a cruise through the 1000 Islands, including a guided tour over historic sunken wrecks and narrative of all the highlights. Next, drive through the six-million-acre civilized wilderness of the Adirondack region, with a stop in Lake Placid. Then head into the forest area of New England: The White Mountains, including Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire and Flume Gorge with impressive waterfalls. Then drive along the New England coast to Boston, with a city tour of the major sites; Cape Cod for 2 nights, exploring Cha- tham and Provincetown with coastal scenery, village shops and art galleries; view the gorgeous Man- sions of Newport, Rhode Island; drive along the Atlantic coast through Mystic Seaport and New Haven, Connecticut; and New York City sightseeing all the sights of the “Big Apple.” Stephen Ude is retired as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Ogden, Iowa. This is his third trip with YMT Vacations.
*Price per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra.
For details, itinerary, reservations & letter from YMT’s chaplain with his phone number call 7 days a week:
1-800-736-7300 32 The Lutheran •
www.thelutheran.org
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Grace has been especially blessed with generous offers of a meeting place, a five-rank pipe organ and more than 50 people who have signed its charter. The 38 members who attend regularly meet in a former den- tal hygiene office building and have doubled the size of the property’s community garden to start food- canning, preservation and nutrition classes for the area.
The congregation is also partner- ing with the Texas AgriLife Exten- sion Service to give classes on how to preserve the garden’s surplus veg- etables and on how to use the produce in nutritious eating. The church aims to help low-income people who live in nearby apartments and a trailer park to take advantage of the garden and the classes.
“Our purpose is to say, ‘Here’s something we think could help you and your family and be important in your life,’ ” Hoerig said. Grace could emerge as a model of the ELCA church of the future, with its diversity and openness to letting people make up their own minds about their beliefs, he added. Although Grace has three years to show it can survive, Hoerig said, “I don’t like survival. I like moving and living in mission.” M
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