Holland America Line
Alaska Cruise & The Canadian Rockies
15 Days 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.
Canadian Rockies Tour Plus Rocky Mountaineer Rail Trip
14 Days Join other Lutherans departing July 6, 2012 from $1948*
Start in Seattle, Washington; beginning your drive to Spokane. En route, visit the Grand Coulee Dam, and Dry Falls. Drive through the beautiful lake-side communities of Coeur d’Alene and Flathead Lake as you head east to “The Big Sky Country” of Montana. Next visit Glacier National Park with its pristine forests and rugged mountains. Then cross over to Waterton Lakes National Park, Glacier’s, Canadian sister park. The following day you will travel to the picturesque town of Banff and Banff National Park (2 nights), visiting “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump” along the way. Then travel north on the Icefields Parkway beginning your scenic route through the Canadian Rockies. Visit Lake Louise; Jasper National Park; Jasper town site (one night) and Yoho National Park before crossing the Continental Divide to Revelstoke; the Lake Okanagan region and the resort town of Whistler where you will board the “Sea to Sky Climb” Rocky Mountaineer train and travel the breathtaking Pacific coast to Vancouver (one night) with included city tour. The following day you will take a ferry trip to Victoria on Vancouver Island with its classic colonial architecture. Then travel back to the U.S. and enjoy another ferry trip to Port Angeles and tour Olympic National Park before returning to Seattle.
National Parks Tour of the Golden West
14 Days Travel with other Lutherans departing July 13, 2012 from $1348*
NATURAL WONDERS …You’ll visit landmarks in EIGHT NATIONAL PARKS including the spectacular GRAND CANYON, with an overnight stay; Redwood trees in SEQUOIA and KINGS CANYON; the rock needles at ZION; BRYCE CANYON’S sculpted cliff faces; YOSEMITE’S waterfalls; ARCHES’ unique rocks shaped by wind, water, sun and frost; and CANYONLANDS, with enchanting vistas carved by the Colorado and Green rivers. You’ll also visit Death Valley (weather permitting), CA; tour the Kennecott Copper Mine, Salt Lake City, Utah; Reno, Virginia City, Lake Tahoe, and Las Vegas, Nevada!
*Price per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra. Call for details & itinerary 7 days a week:
1-800-736-7300 44 The Lutheran •
www.thelutheran.org Withdrawals
This report of congregations with- drawn from the ELCA in 2011 was completed as of Nov. 28. Reports are published on a quarterly basis. Source: ELCA Office of the Secretary.
Principe de Paz, Miami 9/9 St. John, Goliad, TX 9/10 Our Redeemer, Brackettville, TX 9/10 Good Shepherd, Manistee, MI 9/10 Faith, Faith, NC 9/10 Immanuel, Rockwell, NC 9/10 Shiloh, Hickory, NC 9/10 Cross of Christ, Concord, NC 9/10 Trinity, Concord, NC 9/10 Grace Evangelical, Bessemer City, NC 9/10
Hope, Hubbard Lake, MI 9/11 Zion, St. Marys, OH 9/11 Glen Flora, Glen Flora, WI 9/15 St. Jacob, Glenville, PA 9/15 Messiah, Lebanon, PA 9/15 St. Paul, Seven Valleys, PA 9/15 St Mark, Uniondale, IN 9/17 St. Andrew, Atlantic City, NJ 9/17 St. Thomas, Hooversville, PA 9/17 St Mark, Blythewood, SC 9/19 St. Jacob, Chapin, SC 9/19 St. Peter, Chapin, SC 9/19 Holy Trinity, Kettle River, MN 9/23
Faith, Sturgeon Lake, MN 9/23 Good Shepherd, Vickery, OH 9/23 First, Paxton, IL 9/24 Bethany, Covington, MI 9/30 Salem-Emmanuel, Long Lake, SD 10/3
St. John, Celina, OH 10/9 Christ, St. Petersburg, FL 10/10 Vinemont Community, Reinholds, PA 10/20
Evangelical, Mankato, KS 10/21 First, Rock Port, MO 10/22 Joy Community, O’Fallon, MO 10/22 St. Paul of Blossom, Elma, NY 10/22 Springdale, West Sunbury, PA 10/22 Zion, Chicora, PA 10/22 St. Paul, Latrobe, PA 10/22 Emmanuel, Export, PA 10/22 Trinity, Birchwood, WI 10/26 New Life, Gallipolis, OH 10/30 Calvary, Arleta, CA 10/30
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