Registration Workbook for ELCA Youth Gathering Now Available
Registration for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering, the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event (MYLE), the tAble and the Young Adult Gathering will open on Friday. September 15. You can now access the Registration Workbook with needed forms, tips, and tricks for how to register...
Download the 2023-24 Youth+Family Ministry Calendar
As you prepare ministry plans for the Fall, please consider including these upcoming Youth + Family events for the 2023-24 school year. More details including location and costs will be provided as plans are finalized by the Youth + Family...
Stories of the Spirit: Building Puentes – Mutual Support After a Pandemic
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will build again the ruined cities, they will build again the places devastated for many generations. -Isaiah 61:4 Building Puentes (Building Bridges) was created in unity...
Build Your Congregation’s Racial Equity Library
We are Water Protectors, How to Be An Anti-Racist, Caste, God’s Holy Darkness, My Grandmother’s Hands, The 1619 Project, The New Jim Crow. These are but a few of the books you may be interested in adding to your congregation’s lending...
Synod Podcast Episode 6 – To Be Love
Where do you see Jesus and His bold and boundless love? For Deacons Deb Haynes and Dave Larrabee who are called to serve at the Lamb Center, a day shelter for people experiencing homelessness, they see Jesus’ love through the...
Synod Podcast Episode 5 – Bold & Boundless in Your Own Way
God’s invitation into this holy work is also an invitation to boldly be ourselves and to be boundless in our love for Christ. Pastor Ben Hogue and Jennifer Slagle Peck share how they have been inspired by the authentic acts...
Thank you for Your Service, Bob Tuttle!
It is with great gratitude that we honor Robert “Bob” Tuttle, long-term attorney for the Metro D.C. Synod, in the latest Stories of the Spirit. Bob retired from this position as of July 1, 2023 after decades and countless hours...
Synod Podcast Episode 4 – To Cultivate
When you hear the word “cultivate” you may think of a farmer or planting seeds and watching them grow. But not everyone believes they have a green thumb, in a garden or spiritually! Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos and Deacon Julie...
Stories of the Spirit: Crossroads Connection
“Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the...
Synod Podcast Episode 3 – To be (or not to be) Called
Pastor Julie Bringman, Katie Evans, and Carrie Pritts join Bishop Leila Ortiz to delve into how they have felt God stirring and moving in their lives, and how they formalized their listening during a six-month period of discernment. As they...