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ELCA Advocacy
Jul 26, 2024

Prep Now for August Advocacy Opportunities

By Ryan Fonseca-Vega, ELCA Advocacy Intern August presents unique opportunities to bring our deep concerns as Christians about many things...

ELCA Worship
Jul 24, 2024

For what shall we pray?

“For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in...

ELCA Youth Gathering Blog
Jul 21, 2024

Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Disciples

Saturday, July 20 – Created to Be Disciples Today was our closing worship for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering, and...

Faith Lens
Jul 21, 2024

July 21, 2024–And Then There Were Flight Delays

Warm-up Questions What does it feel like to have your plans disrupted? What does it feel like to experience delays...

ELCA Youth Gathering Blog
Jul 20, 2024

Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Disruptive

Friday, July 19 – Created to Be Disruptive Today, the final full day of the Youth Gathering, was a whirlwind...

ELCA Advocacy

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Prep Now for August Advocacy Opportunities

Jul 26, 2024 - By Ryan Fonseca-Vega, ELCA Advocacy Intern August presents unique opportunities to bring our deep concerns as Christians about many things...

Election Engagement Updates

Jul 19, 2024 - Civic engagement is happening this election year in many diverse communities and contexts—and being activated and led by congregations, rostered...

ELCA Election Activator Network

Jul 2, 2024 - In this election year, we are launching the #ELCAElectionActivator network, a facilitation of monthly virtual gatherings and email messages from...

June/July Updates – U.N. and State Edition

Jul 2, 2024 - Following are updates shared from submissions of the Lutheran Office for World Community and state public policy offices (sppos) in...

ELCA Worship

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For what shall we pray?

Jul 24, 2024 - “For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in...

For what shall we pray?

Jul 16, 2024 - “For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in...

For what shall we pray?

Jul 10, 2024 - “For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in...

Partner Organization Resources and Events

Jul 8, 2024 - Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources and events from other organizations and institutions. These Lutheran and ecumenical partner organizations work...

ELCA Youth Gathering Blog

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Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Disciples

Jul 21, 2024 - Saturday, July 20 – Created to Be Disciples Today was our closing worship for the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering, and...

Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Disruptive

Jul 20, 2024 - Friday, July 19 – Created to Be Disruptive Today, the final full day of the Youth Gathering, was a whirlwind...

Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Free

Jul 19, 2024 - Thursday, July 18 – Created to Be Free Today, over 5k Gathering participants in bright orange shirts launched into the...

Scenes from a Street Car: Created to be Authentic

Jul 18, 2024 - Wednesday, July 17 – Created to Be Authentic Today, the spirit of authenticity radiated through the streets of New Orleans...

Faith Lens

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July 21, 2024–And Then There Were Flight Delays

Jul 21, 2024 - Warm-up Questions What does it feel like to have your plans disrupted? What does it feel like to experience delays...

July 14, 2024–Created To Be Transformed

Jul 13, 2024 - Warm-up Questions Can you think of an experience that changed the direction of your life? If so, share that experience....

June 16, 2024–What Is It Like?

Jun 15, 2024 - Warm-up Questions What superhero are you most like and why? Something Like a Simile The sports fans among us know...

June 9, 2024–Chosen Family

Jun 6, 2024 - Warm-up Questions What does “family” mean to you? When you think of your family, who immediately comes to mind?  Are...

Administration Matters

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Index of the July 2024 Issue

Jul 15, 2024 - Issue 94 of Administration Matters How to Create a Mission Endowment Fund: A Guide for Congregations The ELCA Foundation has...

Index of the May 2024 Issue

May 15, 2024 - Issue 93 of Administration Matters Victim of embezzlement? Do you know how to proceed? It is important to know what...

Index of the March 2024 Issue

Mar 15, 2024 - Issue 92 of Administration Matters You’re not late, everyone else is just early! Final call for registration for the 2024...

Index of the January 2024 Issue

Jan 15, 2024 - Issue 91 of Administration Matters Registration for the 2024 Gathering, MYLE, the tAble, and Young Adult Gathering is currently open!...
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Peace Not Walls

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Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine 2022

Nov 28, 2022 - Join us in Sensing Advent: Practicing God’s justice in embodied community Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine is a four-week virtual pilgrimage...

ALAMEH Statement on Iran

Nov 17, 2022 - ALAMEH (Association of Lutherans of Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage) issued a statement on Iran, please find it linked below....

Christian Presence in Jerusalem

Sep 27, 2022 - Today, September 27, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement in support of HM King Abdullah...

Special Action Alert: Support U.S. Funding of Augusta Victoria Hospital

Jul 28, 2022 - Support U.S. Funding of Augusta Victoria Hospital! Take action today. Background President Joe Biden visited Augusta Victoria Hospital on July...

AMMPARO

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World Refugee Day, A Day to Proudly Practice Solidarity

Jun 20, 2024 - By Giovana Oaxaca World Refugee Day is observed annually on June 20th. This is a time to honor the courage...

Witnessing Cruelty and Compassion on a Dominican Highway

Nov 11, 2023 - By Stephen Deal With three traveling companions, we were nearing the end of a long drive from Santo Domingo (the...

Transformed by Kindness: My Immigration Experience

Aug 25, 2023 - By Raed AbuJries “I was a stranger and you invited me in.” These words, from Matthew 25:35, are normally perceived...

With Anti-Immigration Sentiments Rising, More Action is Needed

Jul 14, 2023 - By David Atkinson   For those closely following immigration issues and debates, every day can seem to be a bad...

ELCA Racial Justice

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Juneteenth: An Intergenerational Conversation by Guest Blog Auther Dr. Dianne R. Browne

Jun 19, 2024 - In honor of Juneteenth, ELCA Racial Justice Ministries invited Dr. Dianne R. Browne, Ph.D., CFLE, CSE, Chair of the ELCA...

Commemoration of the Emanuel Nine: Guest blog writer Desta Goehner

Jun 17, 2024 - To commemorate the 9th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Emanuel 9 – Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd,...

Honoring Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May 8, 2024 - In May, we celebrate National AAPI Heritage Month. The Asian and Pacific Islander Ministries of the ELCA, in conjunction with...

May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Awareness Day

May 2, 2024 - May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) Awareness Day. In 2021, as a follow-up to the 2016 Repudiation...

Disability Ministries

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Disability Ministries Grants 2024

May 27, 2024 - Dear friends of ELCA Disability Ministries, Thank you for considering Disability Ministries to potentially help fund your request or initiative...

A Reflection on the 2024 ELCA Youth Ministry Network Extravaganza

Mar 16, 2024 - by Rev. Peter Heide  At the 2024 ELCA Youth Ministry Network Extravaganza, several firsts occurred surrounding Disability Ministries. It had...

CRLC Listening Session

Mar 5, 2024 - The Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church (CRLC) was formed by action of the 2022 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The assembly...

Top 10 List of Accommodations

Dec 8, 2023 - A lot of the questions we get from individuals and congregations are about cost-friendly resources, or being asked where a...

ELCA World Hunger

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Renewing Hunger Ministry Together (re-post from St. Paul Area Synod blog)

Apr 10, 2024 - This is a re-post of a piece from the St. Paul Area Synod blog, by Vernita Kennen of Incarnation Lutheran...

2024 World Hunger Lent Study: Week 5

Mar 18, 2024 - The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a...

2024 World Hunger Lent Study: Week 4

Mar 6, 2024 - The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a...

2024 World Hunger Lent Study: Week 3

Feb 28, 2024 - The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a...

Lutheran Disaster Response

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Situation Report #2: Maui Wildfires

Mar 1, 2024 - Situation: On Aug. 8, 2023, multiple wildfires broke out on Maui. Exacerbated by strong winds, they destroyed homes, businesses, and...

Lutheran Disaster Response at COP28

Jan 19, 2024 - What is COP? COP stands for the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....

Spiritual Rest

Dec 21, 2023 -   By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day [God]...

Human Rights and Climate Change

Dec 10, 2023 - On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), written to address the atrocities...

Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Perspectives

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Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Guide to 2024

Jan 17, 2024 - The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is upon us once again. To commemorate this time of collective witness we’ve...

Preview the Thirteenth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation

Sep 6, 2023 - One week from today the Thirteenth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation will begin in Krakow, Poland. The Assembly will...

Understanding the Knesset’s (Israeli parliament) Recent Ruling in Light of our Jewish Relations

Jul 31, 2023 - Last week the ruling coalition in Israel’s Knesset (parliament) took a unilateral vote that puts further strain on an already...

A Season of Action: Ecumenical Responses to the Climate Crisis

Apr 22, 2023 - On Thursday, April 20, 2023 the ELCA Church Council unanimously adopted the church’s sixteenth social message, titled “Earth’s Climate Crisis“...

ELCA Innovation Lab

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An Introduction to Equity Design

Aug 12, 2021 - This is part two of a two-part introduction to design thinking. Part one is available here.  Introduction   Design thinking...

Thriving Congregations, Thriving Church

Jul 28, 2021 - People are lonely. A January 2020 survey from Cigna found that three in five US Americans are lonely, and we know loneliness only...

Open Doors

Jul 14, 2021 -   Open Doors supports ELCA congregations interested in meeting new people in this time of re-gathering in physical spaces Over...

An Introduction to Design Thinking

Jan 19, 2021 - Introduction Have you or your worshipping community ever encountered a tough problem and found yourselves unable to come up with...

ELCA Young Adults

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The Wolf Shall Lie Down With the Lamb: #NoPlasticsforLent

Mar 15, 2021 - The Word Genesis 1:29-30 29 God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the...

Creation Care on Campus: #NoPlasticsforLent

Mar 11, 2021 - A Starting Place Creation care looks different at different stages of our lives. College is a transitional time for many...

Local is Global: #NoPlasticsforLent

Mar 4, 2021 - The Word “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to...

Justice Alongside Indigenous Peoples : #NoPlasticsforLent

Feb 23, 2021 - ‘Wild’ Places I have been interested in environmental activism, indigenous justice, and decolonization since I was a kid (I was...

Congregational Vitality: Stories and Learning

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Reviving hope in Memphis

Dec 18, 2019 -   by Rev. Antoinette Robinson, Peace Lutheran Church, Memphis Peace Lutheran Church, Memphis, formed Trinity Ministries in partnership with two...

Reclaiming faith with LGBTQIA+ community in Los Angeles

Dec 11, 2019 -   ADORE LA is seeking new and creative ways to do church in the city of Los Angeles. This LGBTQIA+...

Communing with Christ in the strawberry field

Dec 11, 2019 -   The faith community of Iglesia Luterana Santa Cruz communes with Christ in a strawberry field of Santa Maria, Calif....

CV Training Event Travel and Logistics – San Diego – February 2020

Dec 4, 2019 - Congregational Vitality Training Event — San Diego Travel & Logistics for Training Event & Pre-Events: February 17-21, 2020 TRAINING EVENT...

Stories from the Global Church

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Helmut and Rotraut Diefenthal: Service in Malaysia and Tanzania

Apr 8, 2015 - Franklin Ishida ​ The son of a Jewish father, Helmut Diefenthal and his wife, Rotraut, survived Nazi Germany and World...

Nurturing the church in Japan

Mar 31, 2015 - Nathan and Sharonette Bowman ​ New playground equipment is enjoyed at the kindergarten. The Rev. Nathan and Sharonette Bowman accompany...

Hunger

Mar 24, 2015 - Kirsten Fryer The Rev. Kirsten Fryer serves as pastor at St. Andrew’s United Congregation in Cairo and is also pastoral...

Women’s Sunday in Kenya

Mar 17, 2015 - Leslie Weed-Fonner and Michael G Fonner ​ Women’s Sunday worship March 1 at the Nairobi International Lutheran Congregation. The Rev....

Blog Latino

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Mensaje navideño

Dec 25, 2016 - Jesús es nuestro verdadero hogar. Esa es nuestra esperanza en Navidad y durante todo el año. Nunca estamos lejos de…

Reflexiones sobre las elecciones recientes

Dec 6, 2016 - Video de reflexiones sobre las elecciones por parte de la reverenda Elizabeth Eaton, obispa presidente de la ELCA

Obispa presidente de la ELCA emite declaración sobre Standing Rock

Nov 14, 2016 - CHICAGO (14 de noviembre de 2016) – La reverenda Elizabeth A. Eaton, obispa presidente de la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en...

Una mirada mayor al Catecismo menor

Nov 10, 2016 - Por Elizabeth Eaton, Obispa presidente de la ELCA, columna de octubre de 2016 en Living Lutheran Nota del editor: Esta es...