Re-elect Kieschnick and Diekelman
to Continue Healthy Process

By Dr. Richard Bimler

Imagine The Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod (LCMS) "telling everyone what Christ has done!"inand new creative ways:

Affirming member as a gift of the Lord

Encouraging professional church workers in word and deed they will serve others well

Supporting lay leaders through equipping events and resources

Living in order to give and to forgive

Laughing because we know how it all turns out in Christ…while taking the Lord very seriously

Asking others for help

Articulating the inspired Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions faithfully so millions hear the saving Gospel

Seeing all of life through the Cross and the Empty Tomb and going about “Easterizing” people through Holy Baptism

Promoting care ministries as a comprehensive part of the ministry of Word and Sacraments

Shouting "hoorays"a tremendous educational system that has so much to give

Developing and healthy team ministries by equipping and supporting strong and healthy people of God

Rejoicing people doing things right...and celebrating successes!

Listening eyes and ears wide open to the , woes and wars of the world...and bringing hope in Christ to heal these wounds

Challenging aging of our church and society not to "retire" from life and service to the Lord but to continue to be “keepers of the meaning”

Energizing young to strongly consider full-time professional church workand at the same time affirming all of us as full-time proclaimers of Christ

Voicing the truth courageously even when it is countercultural

Realizing that the LCMS message for some has unfortunately become “The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are. . . arguing” and being willing to change this “brand” and perception

Trusting to be good stewards of all the gifts that the Lord has given

Imagine the LCMS for Let’s Celebrate Many Strengths using these strengths in ministry with others!

In order to continue to lead our Synod toward making these dreams more than a vision, Dr.   Kieschnick and Dr.Diekelman to be  re-elected as President and First Vice-President, respectively, of the LCMS. Once re-elected, they cannot do it alone. 

They need each of us—young and old, church workerlay, male and  female, black and brown and white, rural and urban and suburban, churches large and small—to support them and other elected leaders in leading the LCMS positively and powerfully into the 21st Century… Look out world, here we come!

And may our banner read: "Sharing the Gospel is not our job...It's our joy!"

Just imagine this...in the Lord!

Dr. Rich Bimler, past President/Senior Staff Associate of Wheat Ridge Ministries, serves as Ambassador of Health, Hope and Aging (AH-HA!) for Lutheran Life Communities.