Good to Know (birthdays, notices, misc.)

Church Ticket Offer New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.
New Jersey Devils vs. New York Islanders
Saturday, November 26, 2011 – 1:00PM.
Special Ticket Price of $40.00.

Please let our office know if you would like to be the Group Leader for this event and we will provide you with all of the pertinent information. All orders must be received by 11/20/11.

Church Directory
Please check one of the draft copies of the directory to make sure your information is up-to-date and complete. Please make sure to provide an email address if you have not done so. It is very important that you ALL take the time to review and update the information that we have listed for you. Once you have reviewed your information, please make a check mark next to your name (please only mark 1 copy). Updates are need by November 24th so that new directories can be distributed in in December.

If you cannot get to church to make corrections to your information, please call or email the office at (973) 667-0256 or office.htlcnutley@verizon.net. Thank you!


We’ve Moved!

Chris and Nancy Duhm
3 Dumphries Court
Townsend, DE 19734-2866
H: (302) 376-5643
C: (201) 965-4660

Emily Jones
2350 Route 10, Unit E2
Morris Plains, NJ 07950-1233

Elaine Miller and Terry Scalcione
4305 Harcourt Rd.
Clifton, NJ 07013

Congratulations and best wishes to all!


The Lutheran
In your offering envelope box, you should find an envelope in the fall section for a special offering to help defray the cost of our The Lutheran subscription. At a group rate, Holy Trinity pays about $8.00 per subscription. Gifts toward this expense are greatly appreciated. If you are not receiving The Lutheran and would like to, or if you do not wish to receive it, please contact the church office by phone or email. Thank you.

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November Birthdays and Anniversaries

November Birthdays
4: Erika Bacik
8: Sara Murphy
10: Jennifer Murphy
11: Chris Amlung
12: John Fenton
13: Irene Falk
18: Cathy Palamara
21: Erik Hess
27: Judi Lovas
28: Joelle Bernhard, Aida Rubens
29: Grace Viola, Bonnie Munoz
30: Nancy Duhm, Nicole Duhm, William Murphy

November Anniversaries
1: Ken & Irene Geiselmann
2: Richard & Susan Ulley
24: Louis & Terry D’Agnolo


Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Lutheran Peace Activist
Leymah Roberta Gbowee, a Lutheran Liberian peace activist, has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Gbowee, a member of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, is responsible for organizing a non-violent women's movement that brought an end to a 14-year civil war in Liberia.

The Liberian women's movement led to the ousting of ex-President Charles Taylor and to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia -- the first African nation with a female president. President Sirleaf also has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The war in Liberia began in 1989, but "the women's movement, our protest, didn't begin until 2003," said Gbowee. As a mother of six children, she grew tired of watching children die from hunger and "waking up every morning and not knowing whether a tomorrow was possible."

She decided it was time to stop the war and called together women of all faiths -- Christian, Muslim, indigenous and others -- from across Liberia to "step out," recognizing that Liberian women can play a critical role in peace building.

"You always see your savior in someone else other than yourself," Gbowee said. "So for us women, having never been socialized to believe that we have powers to interfere in the politics of our country, we were waiting for the bold men. (But) every time the bold men rose up, they rose up with guns and other things," she said, realizing that women needed to bring the much-desired peace "for ourselves."

Using the experiences of the women before them, Gbowee used prayer, picketing and silence to further their mission. Despite insults and other behaviors that came their way, Gbowee said, "We kept quiet because we had a sense of purpose and sense of direction." The women also put together statements of peace for African governments, engaged the media and initiated personal, one-to-one conversations with power brokers "to see how we could get the peace that Liberia was searching for," she said.

Gbowee's story is chronicled in the documentary "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," which is currently playing on PBS television channels and at pbs.org. She has just completed her memoir, "Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War" -- a book that examines "the power of women and the power of faith in getting you (out) from the darkest place in your life," she said.

"Leymah Gbowee embodies a Christian faith that will not keep silent in the face of poverty and oppression," said ELCA Presiding Bishop, Mark Hanson. "She sees the strength that comes when both women and men of different faiths join together in building a more just and peaceful world. When others may say there is no hope in the face of forces that divide and exploit, Leymah Gbowee gives a resounding 'yes' to the way of nonviolence and justice for all,"

Gbowee was awarded a scholarship from the International Leadership Development Program of the ELCA in 2006-2007 to support her study in peace building at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.