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Hallway passing starts relationship
Pastor Samuel Barber of the congregation Dominion Apostolic congregation uses Pastor Mitch Watney’s Good Samaritan Lutheran building for worship in Leonardtown, Md. The two pastors shared in a video discussion…
Read MoreIs your congregation’s personality more Antioch or Jerusalem?
Among biblical models of church, the Church at Antioch pushed out into the world. The Church of Jerusalem by contrast was a come-and-see-us type of church. Teaching, fellowship, breaking bread,…
Read MoreYour answers are input for ELCA future
Half of us went to lunch, half of us thoughtfully shared our input with the ELCA Churchwide Representative to our Synod Assembly, the Rev. Cherlyne Beck – then we traded.…
Read MoreJUST gRACE – a congregation’s experience
The synod’s Racial Equity Team gave its first of three presentations this morning via a video from All Saints Lutheran Church in Bowie, Md. In this powerful video, the Rev.…
Read MoreWorship first
Reflections shared from our opening Festive Eucharist. Prayers of intercession: Petitions were delivered as various readers came to the microphones around the room. They lifted up the diversity of our…
Read MoreSpring cleaning
by Katharyn Wheeler What do you clean in the church office when Spring Cleaning comes around? Did you know that the ELCA has a policy on what to retain and…
Read MoreGift from an ‘Unplanned Adventure’
by Karen Krueger A diaconal minister from the ELCA Northeastern Iowa Synod with cancer writes from her heart, mind, spirit and experience in a May 2016 synod newsletter. “This newsletter…
Read MoreAs wedding plans sprout
by Katharyn Wheeler Flowers, allergies, and weddings… it is clearly spring in metro D.C. Becoming a wedding officiant in this area accounts for many phone calls to the synod office…
Read MoreMaking most of a summer day
Can’t take a phone in the canoe! Consider sending your child, youth, teen, family, SELF to camp this summer. When the day begins, options exist that can stimulate the senses…
Read MoreWindhoek and Washington side-by-side in May
Our synod is enriched by Companion Synod ties with Lutherans in Namibia. Help us welcome Bishop Ernest //Gamxamub [click language spelling] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of…
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