Useful Links from ILC

	Immanuel Lutheran Church is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
	The ELCA is divided geographically into synods. Immanuel is in the Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes Northern California and Northern Nevada.
SCVLP	Each synod is divided geographically into parishes. Immanuel is in the Santa Clara Valley Lutheran Parish, comprising Lutheran churches in Santa Clara County.
	Sunny View Retirement Community, in Cupertino, has a special focus for our congregation. A number of volunteers participate in their botique, birthday parties, and other care for the residents. In addition, several members are residents at Sunny View.
	Mt. Cross, just minutes from Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay, is one of the most beautiful places you'll visit!  They offer summer camp programs, retreat facilities, challenge course activities, and various other opportunities, designed to help you experience Christian community and interrelationship with God's creation.  Immanuel holds multiple events at Mt. Cross each year.
	Jim & Judy Bangsund are missionaries at the Makumira University College in Tanzania where they train future pastors for churches in Tanzania and from other countries around the world.  Jim teaches Old Testament and Hebrew.  Judy teaches music and liturgy, as well as piano. Photos of Usa River, the village next door, taken by a Danish visitor.
	Dan, Berit and Kristina Wick moved to San Jose, Costa Rica in January 2002 to attend language school to learn Spanish.  They are now in Cartagena, Colombia and working with the Colegio Latinoamericano, a Colombian Christian school that was founded over 50 years ago and has nearly 1000 students ranging from preschool through high school.
	Dula Sentle is an orphan day-care center in Otse, Botswana. Over seventy orphaned children from the community spend their time after school (from 12 or 1 pm until just before sunset) in the company of local adult staff and foreign volunteers. One recent volunteer was Bianca Dahl, our Pastor's daughter. Dula Sentle provides a safe, warm environment for children to play, receive help with homework, eat two healthy hot meals, and perhaps most importantly, experience the love and care of responsible and kind adults. ILC supports Dula Sentle with funds that have provided towels and washcloths (seen in photo) and shoes for the orphans. Although the Dula Sentle project is not overtly missionary, prayers are included and Bible teaching is present. Most of the children and staff are Lutheran and the wife of the proprietor is an active weekly member of a Lutheran church. They maintain a nonsectarian stance in order to benefit from wider support than would be available were they narrowly defined as Christian.
	The ELCA Division for Church in Society focuses on addressing the needs of God's world through service, justice, peace and care of the earth. It also includes the Department for Studies, which develops drafts and social statments for the ELCA.
	The Lutheran is the official magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
	WWJD website.
	Holden Village is a Lutheran retreat center in the North Cascade Mountains in Washington State.
	California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA, is one of the best private universities in the West (as rated by US NEWS & WORLD REPORTS), and has been the destination for many youth from our church. Several of our members have served on the Board of Regents.
	Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary is the Lutheran Seminary on the West Coast (in Berkeley, California).
	The Graduate Theological Union is a consortium of many of the seminaries of different churches in the Bay Area, also located in Berkeley, California.
	Project Wittenberg is a project to post on the internet a cross-section of classic and historic texts by Lutheran authors (including Martin Luther, of course!).
	Lutheran World Relief works with people around the world to overcome poverty and injustice, secure safe water, nutritious food, good health, improved skills and better livelihoods.
	Global Health Ministries is a grassroots movement that provides financial and material support to Lutheran health care mission programs in developing countries. GHM supporters believe there are significant untapped health care resources in the United States that are desperately needed by Lutheran medical missionaries and the people they serve overseas.
	The Bible Gateway is a tool for reading scripture online. Additionally, it provides advanced searching capabilities, allowing readers to find particular passages in scripture, based on keywords.