• The Association of Lutheran Resource Centers: Congregationally based resource centers may join and have access to its e-newsletter Loaves and Fishes.
• ALRC blog: postings by resource ministry directors and others.
• Directory: resource centers, listed by synod.
Editor's note: This article accompanies "Resource Center 2.0," a feature about the ELCA's 76 resource centers. Read on to find out what one ELCA resource center director does during a typical workday.
8 a.m.: Check email.
• Email from adult education director seeking advice about a six-week, video-based study. Investigate options that meet their needs; reply with list of possible titles and descriptions.
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| Fink is director of the Heilig Resource Center located in the North Carolina Synod office in Salisbury. |
• Email from pastor in California looking for a kit she saw on our Web catalog — would we loan? Reply with our out-of-synod borrowing policy.
• Email from a pastor asking for a due date extension for a book he's reading. Reply "yes"; enter later due date in resource center software.
• Email from a worship and music committee chair asking for organist compensation information. Reply with link to Association of Lutheran Resource Centers website, link to our synod's compensation guidelines and more.
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