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Retired Lutheran Educators Network
Register for free participation in LEA's EncourAGEnet. 

EncourAGEnet's purpose is linking, equipping, encouraging, and celebrating post-retirement service.

 

LEA EncourAGEnet was established in 2008. Among the Network's goals are to

  • prepare LEA members for post-retirement service

  • showcase examples of post-retirement service options

  • disseminate information about opportunities for service and resource people and  materials

  • encourage LEA connection to non-members by offering access to an e-mail distribution list and Web site

  • promote LEA membership by offering access to specific member benefits, e.g., resources, books, discounted registrations, etc.

Attention retired educators:

Register to participate on LEA EncourAGEnet's listserv.

  

 The Founding EncourAGEnet Leadership Team:

Lois Giordano, Chair (Cedarburg, WI)

Tom Giordano (Cedarburg, WI)

Rich Bimler (Bloomingdale, IL)

Dean Dammann, Recorder (Tustin, CA)

Chuck Laabs (Maywood, IL)

Ron Royuk (Seward, NE)

Current EncourAGEnet Bulletin

Interesting question: “Who is happier in retirement? Men or women?”

May is Older Americans Month. Browse some resources.

What are presidential candidates saying about their positions on Medicare? Find out.

LEA recently introduced a “Say Hi” feature to its home page, whereby school or congregation staffs can offer a photo of themselves. Now, EncourAGEnet participants may do the same to liven up the EncourAGEnet page on the website. Here is how you can participate:

1.       Send a jpg photo of yourself (or even a group of you!) to ed.grube@lea.org. Include your first name—the only name we’ll publish—and the city and state in which you live.

2.      Sending the photo automatically gives LEA permission to publish it on its website.

3.      Please do not include photos that include children.

4.      You may caption your photo, if you wish.

 

February 23, 2012

 



Winter 2012 issue

LEA EncourAGEnet Bulletin February 16, 2012 by ed.grube
Recent EncourAGEnet Bulletin February 9, 2012 by ed.grube
Safe driving, tax tips, airfare discounts, communication tips, and more...
Recent EncourAGEnet Bulletin February 2, 2012 by ed.grube
Social security changes, texting, WLI, and more...
Recent EncourAGEnet Bulletin January 26, 2012 by ed.grube
Crossword puzzles, Ken Davis, Bible reading plan, and more...

Join Pen Pals with Student Network Live! (SNL!)
EncourAGEnet members can participate in the Pen Pals project, which is a modified mentoring model of communications between SNL and Retired Educators Network (known as EncourAGEnet).

On May 6, 2011, LEA began recruiting EncourAGEnet participants, who will be matched with SNL! participants who desire to interact with a pen pal in retirement from church work. The relationship is two-way. In most cases, mentoring would be from EncourAGEnet to SNL!, but this does not preclude mentoring from SNL to EncourAGEnet, when appropriate. LEA staff will match pen pals.

Mentoring means...

  • being a role model (both as veteran worker and future church worker)
  • sharing experiences
  • caring about each other and asking deep questions about life
  • encouraging
  • introducing to others
  • esteeming opinions and learning
  • opening doors for new experiences and opportunities
         (adapted from The Dawn Mistaken for Dusk: If God So Loved the World, Why Can't We by Leonard Sweet.

If you wish to be a Pen Pal, send your name, location, and brief description of your ministry title or experience to ed.grube@lea.org. You will be matched with a Pen Pal from SNL!.

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