IDE Official Notice

2012 Presidium Nominations Report

The following are the results of the congregational nominations for the Presidium of Iowa District East.  The nominees for each office will be listed by the number of nominations received.

For District President 46 congregations nominated the following: 

45 - Brian Saunders; 

4 - Matthew Reuger; 

1 each - Matthew Harrison, Chris Hinkle & Daniel Krueger.

For First Vice President 45 congregations nominated the following: 

40 - Matthew Reuger; 

9 - Michael Knox; 

4 - Mark Brase; 

3 - Dan Krueger; 

1 each – Kris Kincaid, David Rempfer, Steven Rempfer & Brian Saunders.

For Second Vice President 44 congregations nominated the following: 

22 - Daniel Krueger; 

13 - Michael Knox; 

11 - Mark Brase; 

3 - Matthew Reuger; 

3 - Daniel S. Johnson; 

2 - Michael Scudder; 

1 each – Kris Kincaid, Chris Locke, Max Mons, Steve Rasmussen, David Rempfer, Steven Rempfer, Gary Sears, Terry Small, John Wohlrabe, Jr. & Victor Young.

Those nominees accepting the nomination and agreeing to serve if elected will be listed in the 2012 IDE Convention Workbook as well as their biographical information. 

Respectfully submitted,

Mark Brase                             Joshua Reimche

IDE Secretary                         IDE Assistant Secretary

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iowa City

Pictures from the March 3rd Pancake Day at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iowa City. 925 people were served raising close to $5000  for the Crisis Center.

College Hill Lutheran Church In Cedar Falls

College Hill Lutheran Church and Brammer Student Center celebrated their 70th anniversary in February.  Photo shows the cake along with some of the 2012 board of directors and Pastor Wegener.

Peace Lutheran Church in Shellrock

The installation of Rev. Michael Knox at Peace Lutheran Church, Shell Rock, on Saturday, Feb. 25. From left in the photo: Rev. Thomas Wegener; IDE President Brian Saunders; Rev. Knox; Rev. David Steege.

IDE Mission Board

Our Life Together
Rev. Vic Young

Around 444 BC, Nehemiah was sent to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. He found them in rubble and the people in distress. The governor summoned everyone to rebuild the walls. All went to work and wall sections began to rise.

When Nehemiah heard that enemies were planning to attack, he called the people to arms. Some stood guard while others worked. If an assault came, no matter which family or clan one belonged to, all were to rush to the aid of that section in peril. The Kingdom was spared and increased when living in life together

Christ’s Church is one body, with many members, united to one head, our Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 12). Iowa District East is 120 congregations. We have bound ourselves together in the common confession of the Faith. As recipients of God’s witness and mercy, each is summoned to give witness to Christ and perform acts of mercy to others. This makes up our life together, therefore we do this together.

Only in life together are we able, with God’s gifts, to pursue expansion of the Body of Christ inside and outside our communities. Together we train pastors and church workers. Together we send missionaries here at home and throughout the world.

People are roaming down the highway to hell. They need what we receive through the Gospel, Holy Baptism, Holy Absolution, and Holy Communion – rescue in and through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are in this together as mutual beneficiaries of God’s grace and mutual givers of His gifts to our fellow man.

The District is not a building, district president, or board of directors. It is not “them.” Iowa District East is “us,” all the LCMS congregations in eastern Iowa, together in one fellowship. In our life together, when one suffers, all suffer. When one rejoices, all rejoice. The members care for each other, such as, the help we are giving to our newest congregation, New Hope Lutheran Church in Charles City. In our life together we are being called to work together to support the birth of another mission congregation in North Liberty.

Being blessed by the triune God, Nehemiah and the people rebuilt the walls. Being blessed by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our life together we will work to expand the walls of His Church through witness and mercy – but we will need your support.

IDE Mission Board

Witness, Mercy, Life Together in Charles City and North Liberty 

– new mission starts in IDE

Rev. Dan S. Johnson

Witness, Mercy, Life Together... this statement is not only for individual congregations but it is a
statement for the Church. It is a description of who and what we are. It imparts to a secular
world a purpose for our existence. We as congregations of the Iowa District East of the
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod are given a specific mission by our Lord – to
witness to the world the “reason for the hope which dwells within us,” demonstrating that
“hope” through acts of mercy as we live together in our towns and communities.

This “witness, mercy and life together,” in which we live, is exemplified by establishing
congregations in communities where such a witness, with mercy, in a life together can be
exercised. Such is being done in IDE. In Charles City, New Hope Lutheran Church has begun a
“life together” in witness and mercy. This June, at the IDE convention, an overture will be
presented to fund a new mission in the community of North Liberty. The missions in Charles
City and North Liberty will be the first new mission starts in IDE in over 20 years.

The IDE board of directors and district board for missions has expressed a necessity for these
missions to present an intentional Lutheran identity to the communities where they serve. They
will provide a witness, proclaiming a Lord of mercy through unambiguous liturgical and
sacramental worship and pastoral care. There are already many different “styles” of mission
activity being exercised in the North Liberty community by different Christian denominations.
The IDE board for missions has no desire for this new congregation to simply be one Christian
mission among many. It is the intent of IDE to establish a Christian ministry of “witness, mercy
and life together” that is decidedly and distinctively Lutheran in what is preached and practiced.
This is not a new idea, but is fundamental to the confession and practice of our Lutheran Fathers
who believed that Lutheran missions must lead to the formation of confessing Lutheran
congregations.

This is the intent of the IDE board of directors and the IDE board for missions, as we, in a “life
together” in witness and mercy, welcome New Hope Lutheran Church in Charles City and move
forward requesting your prayers and financial support in establishing a confessing Lutheran
congregation in North Liberty.