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On February 25, 2012 the North Wisconsin District will host a day-long stewardship workshop titled:

"Your life...His resources!"

The featured speaker is Rev. Wayne Knolhoff, Director of Stewardship for the LCMS.   Breakout sessions will cover stewardship in a broad scope, from health and wellness, personal and corporate financial management, and time and talent to the how-to's of leading a stewardship process at your congregation.   Experienced presenters will cover these topics in the hour long breakouts.

The workshop will be from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Weston. Registration materials will be available on the district website in January or you may register by calling the North Wisconsin District at 715-845-8241. Cost for the conference is $20 per participant, or $50 for 3 or more from the same church.

Rev. Wayne Knolhoff is taking a new approach to integrating Biblical stewardship in congregations. Faith Aflame is a congregational process designed to change the stewardship culture.   The vision for stewardship in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is that the stewardship culture in every congregation would be one where every professional church worker, every man, women, and child would know that they are God's steward by His grace, live as His disciples, and manage the gifts He entrusts to them with joy and generosity-all so that His purposes would be accomplished and His mission enhanced.    Check out the site at faithaflame.lcms.org

Rev. Knolhoff was born and raised on a farm near Carlyle, Illinois, and graduated from Concordia College in River Forest, Illinois, in 1972. He taught in Lutheran schools in Bayside, New York, and Grafton, Wisconsin before entering Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1979.   He served as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Humboldt, Iowa from 1983 to 1991, when he became the Iowa District East Executive for Stewardship, Missions, Evangelism and Church Extension. In 1995, Wayne received the Master of Parish Education Degree from Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska and in January, 2001 installed as Mission and Ministry Facilitator for the Missouri District. In February, 2008 Wayne was installed as the Director of Stewardship for The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.