2025 Disability Ministries Grantees
Hello and a blessed Advent to everyone! On behalf of ELCA Disability Ministries’ advisory and our groups of grant reviewers I would like to say a huge “thank you!” to the nearly sixty congregations and ministries that applied for grants...
Creating Accessible Spaces On A Budget: webinar
Hi everyone! Lisa Heffernan, coordinator, here on the blog today. I wanted to share a short note with all of you on last month’s webinar, and offer a link to the recording. On November 17, members of the ELCA Disability...
Churchwide Assembly Recap: Disability Ministries
For five days, hundreds of ELCA Lutherans descended on Phoenix, AZ, for the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. This gathering is set to do the business of the church: to receive reports from the churchwide officers, leaders, and units, to consider...
Reflection: Disability and Mental Health Advocacy
John Christensen is a life-long ELCA Lutheran, currently working with the World Council of Churches as a Project Officer in the Churches’ Commission for Health & Healing, and the WCC’S Ecumenical Disability Advocates’ Network (EDAN) I am the son of...
Disability Ministry Report
In our churchwide organization’s recently released God’s Love Made Real strategic recommendations report, research from the Barna Group and Fuller Seminary suggests a path forward for the church to connect with new, young and diverse people in our communities. As the...
Resources Available for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print-Disabled
Hi friends! Today’s post links with our upcoming newsletter. Be sure to check out Rev. Peter Heide’s interview below, and go to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America newsletter sign up page and subscribe to receive our next and future...