Gottesdienst Redeemer Conference Coming Up May 5-7
Redeemer Lutheran Church in Ft. Wayne will again host a Gottesdienst conference on Monday May 5 - Wednesday May 7, 2025 sponsored by the Lutheran Church Extension Fund. This is definitely a MUST ATTEND conference! It will feature plenty of time for casuistry and camaraderie, worship, and essays. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker will be the Rev. Dr. William Weinrich, who has been at work finishing his magnum opus commentary on the Gospel of John. Dr. Weinrich has been a giant among confessional Lutherans for half a century, and a major formative influence on our own editors among many others. His lectures never disappoint. Here is a taste!
We will also be hearing from Rev. Joshua Schooping who is a rare recent convert to Lutheranism from Eastern Orthodoxy, and from Rev. Dr. Karl Fabrizius and Rev. Dr. Burnell Eckardt on topics to be determined. You can get a preview of Rev. Schooping here.
LCEF provides very good mortgages for Church workers - especially when they don’t have a history of employment or other things that traditional lenders don’t like, but they offer far more than that. Here is a little blurb that they provided. Please visit their website poke around.
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The Early bird registration fee is only $45 - meals and Gemütlichkeits included. Regular registration, from April 24 up to the day of the conference, is $65. To register please send an e-mail to b.f.eckardt@gmail.com along with the number attending. Send vender inquiries to the same address.
Schedule for the Redeemer Gottesdienst Conference 2025 (5-7 May)
Monday, 5 May 2025
1:30 p.m. Divine Service
3:00 p.m. Conference welcome
3:15 p.m. Session 1 – Schooping: A journey across the Bosporus to the West.
4:15 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. Vespers
5:00-8:00 p.m. Dinner and Gemütlichkeit
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
8:30 a.m. Matins
9:45 a.m. Session 2 - Weinrich
10:45 a.m. Questions for Weinrich
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Session 3 - Weinrich
2:00 p.m. Questions for Weinrich
2:15 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Session 4 - Fabrizius
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Vespers
4:30-8:00 p.m. Dinner and Gemütlichkeit
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
8:30 a.m. Divine Service
9:15 a.m. Session 5 - Eckardt
10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion