Great expectations not novel: Signs of life to be found across this church if we take the time to notice
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP* Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor...
Friends already waiting for you at school
There is an ELCA presence at more than 180 state and private colleges and universities, and cooperating congregations in campus ministry at an additional 400 campuses nationwide. Students find “food, fellowship, and faith formation” says Chaplain Anne Jones of campus...
Block mosquitoes in the tiny gap
While we're all thinking of mosquitoes this summer, generous giving in the synod has ALMOST provided one net to the ELCA Malaria Campaign per each synod member. Let's do this! by Dorothy Sorrell The generous giving...
Big look at Small Catechism: What does this mean? Old as well as young need its enduring, concise instruction
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP Several years ago my husband’s bishop tried initiating a diocese-wide call to the catechumenate to engage those preparing for confirmation in a period of study and formation. We call it confirmation class...
From the Bishop’s Desk: Refugee Sunday
Dear friends,* I invite you to remember Refugee Sunday on June 22, 2014 in your prayers and your worship. At our synod's annual gathering last year we adopted and sent on to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly a memorial about Refugee...
Young leaders head to Australia for AIDS2014
Richard Adkins (left) and Elishua Greenwood (top) are ELCA Youth Delegation members to AIDS2014 “Change can’t happen without a catalyst,” says Richard Adkins, dedicated volunteer with Youth Haven, a program of Lutheran Social Services of the...
Shout-out for Team ELCA: A call to all for greater, deeper and unapologetic participation in this church
A MONTHLY MESSAGE FROM THE ELCA PRESIDING BISHOP We are in the middle of synod assembly season. All synods will meet, vote, discuss, worship and sing. I will be at five of these and can assure you that, though there...
Local Lutherans share concerns from Oromia region
Local Oromo congregations have called our community to prayer. Link to Prayers for Peace found in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship. “I mourn the death of our youngsters,” says the Rev. Teka Obsa Fogi of dozens of casualties...
Rewriting the unemployment story
by S. W. Senghor We knew each other by sight; some of us, even by name. But we had no idea that we were each at sea, adrift on our own boats. The church community should have been a place...
Mums for mom & other Malaria Day observances
Many moms will proudly wear a chrysanthemum corsage on Mother’s Day at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Virginia because its purchase matched the purchase of a mosquito net. On World Malaria Sunday, April 27, 2014, orders were taken for...