September 06 - The Lutheran Witness - The Lutheran Church ...

and other volunteer opportunities in a dozen workshops consitituting
a first-ever “Outreach Expo.”
Delegates re-elected to two-year terms Int’l LLL President Jack
Kidwell of Bay City, Mich.; Financial Secretary H. Werner Essig of
Starkville, Miss.; and seven of 15 regional governors.
On Saturday, the convention featured a rally for “The Lutheran
Hour.” It was taped for later broadcast. Later that day, a convention
banquet and celebration capped off the 18-month 75th
anniversary of “The Lutheran Hour.”
In his rally message, Dr. Ken Klaus, “The Lutheran Hour”
speaker, declared that he would preach “Christ without compromise,
the cross without concession. I shall preach nothing less than
God’s true Word, His plan of salvation, His assurance of forgiveness,
and His hope for heaven.”
Next year’s Int’l LLL convention is set for July 26–29 in
Duluth, Minn.
Joe Isenhower Jr. is managing editor for the Synod’s REPORTER newspaper.
As the 2006 Int’l LLL convention assembly sings “Lift High
the Cross,” a participant raises one of 1,200 commemorative
mahogany crosses made for registrants from wood saved
after a 1980 remodeling project at St. John Lutheran Church,
Laurel, Mont. Howard Guenther, a St. John member, headed
the project to make those crosses.
More than 70 teenagers and young children at the convention
assembled Global Care Packages with school
supplies and toys for school children in Uruguay.
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