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Sooner or later you come to a time in your life when you have to stop drifting along and you have to raise some serious questions. Sooner or later you get…

Worship attendance has, for many years, been considered the gold standard for determining a congregation’s size. Membership used to be the standard, but that changed some years ago when it…

Today’s technology is used by many of our congregations in worship and on Web sites. Church Mutual, the synod’s insurance carrier, has highlighted several considerations when performing or copying copyrighted…

Dr. Rodger Nishioka returned to the speaker’s podium in the afternoon for the second part of his presentation: “What are young adults seeking and how do we respond?” He had…

The body that is the ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod was called together in assembly for worship by the words from Corinthians that describe a body as one but composed…

Worship has always been a highlight of our time together in Synod Assembly. Take part in the Fall Session’s worship service on Saturday, September 25 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church…

I’m happy to announce that Stephen Padre, guest reporter during the Spring Session of the 2010 Metro D.C. Synod Assembly, will again be reporting his observations “From the Floor” during the Fall Session.…

The Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod is the smallest synod geographically in the ELCA. Unlike many of the ELCA’s 65 synod bishops, Bishop Graham could probably drive across the synod in an hour…

It was an information-packed morning in the assembly hall. The Rev. Karen Ward, Vicar and Abbess of Church of the Apostles, a young, emerging, Episcopal and Lutheran mission congregation located…

Bishop Richard Graham gave a verbal report to the assembly on Friday afternoon to support his written report, which had been distributed earlier. Bishop Graham made several key points to…