The 19^th Annual Concordia Conference for Parish Nurses met at Concordia University Wisconsin with participants from 21 states and from Bethlehem (West Bank). Parish nurses from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod have been actively supporting the development of parish nursing in Bethlehem and recognized this with an ice cream social celebrating five years of parish nursing in Bethlehem and the many blessings God has provided.

The quarterly meeting of the Board for Management of the Lutheran Parish Nurses International, NFP met immediately after the close of the conference with participants on-site and on-line from the USA, Bethlehem, and Finland.