August 2
Women of the ELCA Board Meeting
Good Shepherd, Eugene
9:00 am
Contact Margrethe Farnstrom at gefarn@yahoo.com or 503-526-1025.

August 16
Women of the ELCA-Bible Study Event
“The Hidden Hand of God: Wisdom stories from Ruth, Daniel and Esther”
by Rev. Gwen Sayler and Rev. Ann Fritschel
Trinity Lutheran Church, 507 W. Powell Blvd. , Gresham, Oregon
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Join Oregon Synodical Women of Oregon (Women of the ELCA) to meet co-author Rev. Ann Fritschel and learn more about the new 2008-2009 LWT Bible Study. The cost is $10.00 for the day and includes lunch served by the women of Trinity Lutheran Church. Contact Margrethe Farnstrom at gefarn@yahoo.com or 503-526-1025.

Professor Ann Fritschel, a Wartburg Seminary graduate, has served churches in Dickinson, Mohall and Hamerly N.D. She earned her Ph.D from Emory University and joined the Wartburg Faculty in 1996.  Ann has presented numerous workshops on the psalms and Islam, as well as leading several synod assembly bible studies.  She enjoys traveling, reading, needlepoint, and her two cats.  She is a descendant of Gottfried Fritschel, one of the founders of Wartburg Seminary.

The co-author of the 2008-09 Lutheran Women Today study “The Hidden Hand of God: Wisdom Stories from Ruth, Daniel, and Esther,” She will introduce the study at Trinity. Download registration form.

President:
Margrethe Farnstrom
7988 SW Scholls Ferry Rd.
Beaverton, Oregon 97008
gefarn@yahoo.com
503-526-1025

Secretary:
Judy Ann Johnson, 52068 SE 5th Scappoose, Oregon 97056
judyannj@centurytel.net, 503-543-2031

Vice President:
Charlene Beedle, 965 Molokai St., Salem, Oregon 97317
charbeedle@earthlink.net, 503-581-7588

Treasurer:
(term is 2/1/08 to 1/31/10)
Naoma Lee, SE 8960 SE Dean Drive, Clackamas, Oregon 97015, sslc@sslcgladstone.org, 503-655-7655

Editor of The Oregon Grapevine
Becky Smith, bsmith8816@yahoo.com