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Sunday, June 15, 2003


 
"Working & Supporting One Another"

A few weeks ago we visited Emmanuel Lutheran Church (ELCA). Emmanuel is the historic Christian church closest to our home in Moscow. (I say "historic" because the Seventh-day Adventist church right beside Emmanuel is technically closer to us.) Geography is key in my view of the church - I believe in parishes and city churches reckoned by geography before ideology. See "The Dominion Church" by Jim Jordan for some related reading.

Anyway, I like to visit other local churches from time to time - especially ones in my neighborhood. So we finally visited Emmanuel Lutheran after driving past it on the way to our church for months. I loved the sung liturgy, as well as the kindness and warmth of the people. However, like many ELCA churches, Emmanuel has one man and one woman pastor. For this and other reasons, I would not join the local chapter of the Evangelical Lutheran Club in America, but our brief visit with them was sweet nonetheless.

Ted & Jane Leidenfrost greeted us at the door. Quite the global missionary family, Ted is from Hungary and Jane is from Idaho. They met many years ago during missionary training in Connecticut, and then served in Nigeria for some thirty years. Most of their children grew up to become missionaries too, including Csaba - one of our elders at Christ Church - who is a Wycliffe Bible translator heading up a team in the Ivory Coast, West Africa.

Following is a letter we received from Ted & Jane, on ELC stationary:

5-31-03
Dear Jon & Hollie:
Thank you for your visit to ELC with your lovely son.
We hope you have been strengthened in your faith commitment by worshiping with fellow members of the Body of Christ. The unbelieving world needs to see the Body of Christ working & supporting one another, so they may also experience the presence of God's Holy Spirit that was in Christ & is available to all who receive Him.
We just returned with Csaba & Heba & his family from Sacramento, CA for the graduation of our second son Gabor by God's grace.
Continue to receive daily the Holy Spirit & continue to let God use you both as Christ's Body for the blessing and healing of the world around you.
God's peace be with you all
Ted & Jane Leidenfrost
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