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Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon	Robert A. J. Gagnon joined the faculty at Pittsburgh in the Fall of 1994 as an Associate Professor of New Testament. He received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. His main fields of interest are Pauline theology and sexual issues in the Bible. He is the author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon, 2001). He is currently completing two other books: Jesus and the Capernaum Official: Trajectories in Tradition History and The Limited Advantage of the Jew: Diatribe, Syllogisms, Universal Sin, and the Layered Trap of Romans 3:1-9. He is the author of a dozen scholarly articles which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Novum Testamentum, and New Testament Studies. He is also co-editor of the journal Horizons in Biblical Theology.
Dr. Larry A. Gedde	Larry A. Gedde is the senior pastor of Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in Mounds View, MN. He is a graduate of ELTS (now Trinity), Columbus, Ohio, and earned the D.Min. Degree from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN, in 1982. Dr. Gedde has served as a pastor in congregations in Minnesota, Washington, and California. He also served as a military chaplain in the Minnesota Army National Guard and the US Army Reserve, a civilian police chaplain in California, and a hospice chaplain in North Dakota. He worked in all three of the former American Lutheran Church's Minnesota Districts and its South Dakota District. In 1993 and 1994, Gedde served as the Speaker and Director of Lutheran Vespers, the national ELCA radio ministry. He was also the ELCA preacher on The Protestant Hour during that same time period. Larry says that it was during this time that he "learned firsthand to be an ELCA skeptic." In 1995, he left Chicago to return to parish ministry in Lodi, California.
Dr. Oliver K. Olson	Oliver K. Olson has influenced confessional Lutherans on the subject of liturgy and theology for the past quarter century through many articles, including "Liturgy As Action," and "Luther's Catholic Minimum." Suspecting correctly that Flacius was more important to the survival of the Reformation than Philip Melancthon, Dr. Olson has invested his recent years investigating the life and works of Matthias Flacius. In 2002, the first volume of his biography on Flacious was published, Matthius Flacius and the Survival of Luther's Reform. After completing degrees from St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) and Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota), Dr. Olson served for eight years on active duty and is retired as a commander in the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. His Th.D. is from the University of Hamburg. His doctoral dissertation was on the 1557 publication of a medieval manuscript known as the Missa Illyrica, high-point of a scholarly demonstration by Mathias Flacius of the catholicity of Luther's reform of the liturgy. He has taught at Luther Seminary, St. Olaf College, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and Marquette University. While teaching at Marquette, he was able to pursue extensive research at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, a celebrated repository of Early Modern books and manuscripts. Dr. Olson is the President of Lutheran Quarterly, a journal he resurrected in 1986. The New Series of Lutheran Quarterly continues the tradition of its namesake (1949-1977) by providing a responsible, scholarly journal committed to the confessional heritage of Evangelical Lutheranism. Now retired from teaching, Dr. Olson continues his work on a second volume of his biography on Mathias Flacius.

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Here We Stand
The Gathering Place
for Fun & Fellowship this Summer
July 20-22, 2003
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
326 Leroy Street
Audubon, Iowa


"Velkommen!" We warmly invite you to gather with us this summer to experience real Danish Hospitality and learn more about our great Lutheran heritage, God's Word.
 

A Call to Assemble
In the conviction that God has called us through the Lordship of his Son Jesus Christ
and the guidance of his Holy Spirit to confess the gospel in its purity,
we, members of the priesthood of all believers, give thanks to God for his continual faithfulness
and hereby call for evangelical-Lutherans who are dedicated to the perpetuation of
confessional Lutheranism in the North American context to gather at the
Third National Convention of the Augsburg Lutheran District
Here We Stand
July 20--22, 2003
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
Audubon, Iowa
 

Consensus Building Discussion Groups 
Worship: Contemporary & Faithful 
Confessional Issues: Ministry and The Role of the Christian in Society
Membership: "Outreach" and "Reaching In" 
The Augsburg Constitution 

Workshops 
Congregational Ministry Resources 
Youth and Adult Mission Trip to Augsburg Mission Churches 
Sharing the Faith: Discovering Spiritual Gifts 
New Mission Church Information and Resources
Building Strong & Ready Families

Registration
The three-day registration fee is $60, including catered meals and a convention resource book.
The one-day registration fee is $30, including meals and resource materials for the day.
Observers and students cost is $10 per day.
Worship services are open to the public at no charge.

Registration fees, along with the names of those registering, may be sent by mail to:
Here We Stand
Elk Horn Lutheran Church
4313 Main Street
Elk Horn, IA 51531
For more information call Elk Horn Lutheran Church at: 712-764-5678
or e-mail: lrasmussen@augsburgchurches.org
 

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