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The purpose of the Servant of Christ Award is to recognize and publicly celebrate outstanding service ministry performed during 2009 by ELCA congregations in each Minnesota synod.
Please nominate a congregation that in your opinion has demonstrated outstanding service to the community during 2009 through extraordinary effort or has shown community leadership in social ministry/service/justice whether or not as part of an LSS program. Nominations must be received by LSS no later than January 31, 2010. Criteria that LSS will consider when choosing a winner from among all nominations:
- Relationships: Long-term and/or exceptionally rich relationship between congregation and LSS.
- Service partnership: A congregation with a service connection to a program or site which has come forward with extraordinary effort in the face of special need (e.g. disaster relief volunteers) and/or which is a leader in social ministry/service/justice in their community, whether or not as part of an LSS program
- Financial support: Large gifts, proportionally large gifts, growth in giving, long-term faithfulness in giving to LSS. Congregation members who are donors to LSS are also a consideration.
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Thank you for taking the time to complete a nomination for the Servant of Christ Award.
Richard Andersen, Director of Congregational Relations
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