September contents SEPTEMBER 2014 VOLUME 27 NUMBER 9 32 Our food, neighbors 40 Living in the church
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Reinventing Sunday school Lutheran News
8 ELCA responds to Ebola outbreak
10 Lutherans provide shelter
Cover story
16 Reinventing Sunday school A reformation in faith formation
21 Perspective: The show is over Today’s young people won’t just sit and listen
22 Study guide Features
28 Work matters for our faith
30 Finding meaningful work together Congregation’s support group helps one another find jobs
34 100 years ago, patriots in any language American Lutherans and World War I
36 Making malaria known
38 Church rain gardens help control flooding, improve watershed quality
24 Repair, rebuild, restore Departments
3 Challenging conversations 4 Editor notes
14 Deeper understandings 23 Reflection 42 Two months out 43 Faces 44 Best this month 45 Deaths 46 Classifieds 47 Light side 47 Crossword 48 Letters 49 Picture this 50 Presiding bishop
COVER: EMILY, 12, AND SUZI HANSON, MEMBERS OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH, WEST FARGO, N.D. PHOTO BY ANN ARBOR MILLER.
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