Punto de referencia para nuestros viajes
SALUDO NAVIDEÑO DE NUESTRO OBISPO RICHARD GRAHAM Están sucediendo muchas cosas ahora, y estamos todos muy activos. Pero aun así la gente ama el Adviento, y creo que esto se debe a que ni siquiera la actividad de ésta temporada...
Landmark for our travels
A SEASON'S GREETING FROM OUR BISHOP There is a lot going on now, and we’re all bustling. But people love Advent anyway, and I believe this is because not even the seasonal busyness can detract from the news that Jesus...
Building Puentes with Caribbean islands
San Pedro church members and friends out delivering supplies in Toa Baja. Recovery on islands of the Caribbean after havoc wrought in September 2017 by Hurricane Maria is pressing and challenging. “The brightest star on its...
Living in a broken world
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP As I write this the Gulf Coast and Florida are starting the long recovery after hurricanes Harvey and Irma; Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are mostly without electricity and running low...
Veterans Day Prayers
by the Rev. Mark W. Olsen Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin Kroeker, corpsman, L Co., 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, hugs his mother, Melissa, during a homecoming at Del Valle Field, Oct. 9, 2013. With Veterans Day,...
Oct. 32 and beyond
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP* This is the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. For the past year it has been “All Reformation All the Time!” Everything Martin Luther. The really observant have branched out to Philipp Melanchthon...
At the table together / Juntos a la mesa
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP* Old recipes are precious things. They give instructions about how to prepare a dish, but they are so much more. They are filled with memories. They connect families as they are passed...
Signs of love in Leesburg
Bleakness. That was the “take-away feeling” expressed by Amy Miller from recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where “violent hatred [was] being spewed against people that are our brothers and sisters.” The member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Leesburg, Virginia,...
Hands honor history on day of service
by Pat Henry* About 15 Georgetown Lutheran Church members and friends wielded shovels, pruning shears, clipboards and pens Sun. Sept. 10, 2017 as part of a service project to document gravestones at the historic Mount Zion Cemetery. [caption id="attachment_21190" align="alignright"...
Building Puentes Solidarity Worship Service
On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria making landfall in the ELCA Caribbean Synod, we will hold an uplifting worship service, building bridges between the ELCA Metro D.C. Synod and the ELCA Caribbean Synod. Building Puentes Solidarity Worship Service Thursday,...