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Lutheran, The, Apr 2001

Sour ambassador

Nine people from the South Dakota Synod went to Managua, Nicaragua. A portion of the sending-off liturgy in the St. Mark Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, S.D., bulletin read: "Members of St. Mark are sending Reynold Nesiba to Nicaragua a sour ambassador." Despite the bulletin's description, I tried to be a sweet and well-tempered ambassador in all my dealings in Nicaragua.

Reynold F Nesiba

Sioux Falls, S.D.

Poinsettias, lilies, whatever

From the Bethlehem Lutheran Church newsletter, Askov, Minn.: "Poinsettias for decorating our church for Christmas Eve! Please use the form below for ordering your Easter lily."

Ardis Petersen

Tyler Minn.

Calling all young vices

An announcement in the Edina [Minn.] Community Lutheran Church bulletin about a new choir for first- through fifth-- graders concluded with this statement: "We are excited about hearing these your vices as part of our worship."

Jon N. Groth

St. Louis Park Minn.

Car talk

Could the psalmist have been thinking about his car? A Bible digest quote in the Mansfield [Ohio] New Journal read: "For the Ford is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations," Psalm 100:5.

Paul Beck

Crestline, Ohio

Included in the prayers at Long Lake Lutheran Church, Birchwood, Wis.: "Watch over the young people from this congregation who are away from home at school or in military service. Guide them and keep them in your car. Hear us, O God."

Alys Wendlandt

Birchwood, Wis.

Super Bowl effects

An announcement in the Buffalo Lake Lutheran Church, DeGraff, Minn., bulletin advertised the annual Souper Bowl hunger cause, but perhaps anticipated over-snacking instead: "Souper Bowel Movement: Everyone is asked to bring a can of soup .....

Harriet Payne

DeGraff, Minn.

Any wedding bloopers?

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