Registration and Check-In begin at 12:00 PM on Monday, October 9. Cost is $55 (Emeriti and wives $30). Register online or fill out a paper registration form and return to the district office with a check. Mail to: Iowa District East LCMS, 1100 Blairs Ferry Rd, Marion IA 52302-3093.
A housing package is available at Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca for an additional $33 which includes breakfast. Rooms have been reserved at a nearby hotel for $99, but reservations must be made by September 18 in order to secure the $99 rate. Please call in to make your reservation and ask for the Lutheran Ministers Group.
AMERICINN CEDAR RAPIDS
8910 6th St. SW
CEDAR RAPIDS IA 52404
319-632-1800
Monday
12:00PM Registration
1:00PM Opening Worship
1:45PM Session 1
3:00PM Break
3:30PM Session 2
4:45PM Closing Devotions
Supper at Camp
Tuesday
8:30AM Opening Worship
9:00AM Session 3
10:00AM District Business
10:30AM Break
11:00PM Session 4
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM Sectionals
2:00PM Break
2:30PM Session 5
3:45PM Closing Devotions
The 2023 Fall Pastors’ Conference is scheduled for October 9-10, 2023 and will be held at Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca with Rev. Jeffery Hemmer presenting on Christological Anthropology. Registration is now open.
The Rev. Jeffrey B. Hemmer is assistant to the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Prior to joining the president’s staff in August 2021, Hemmer served as pastor of Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fairview Heights, Ill. He continues to serve as pastor there in a part-time capacity.
Born in Belleville, Ill., Hemmer received a B.A. in English from Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward, Neb., and an M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia Seminary, working on a dissertation on the theology of body and the theology of place. His other theological and academic interests include biblical masculinity and the function of Christian fathers, the role of the resurrection in Christian ethics, and martyrdom and the cross-shaped Christian life.
Hemmer is the author of Man Up!: The Quest for Masculinity (CPH, 2017); Behold the Man! Lenten and Easter sermon series (CPH, 2019); A Noble Army sermon series on the martyrs (CPH, 2020); and assorted other articles, essays and posts.