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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…
Read MoreDownload 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…
Read MoreStories 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.…
Read MoreBuild 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…
Read MoreSynod 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…
Read MoreSynod 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…
Read MoreThank 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…
Read MoreSynod 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…
Read MoreStories 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…
Read MoreSynod 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…
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