Dear Sumud community,

Thank you for your patience in receiving this Sumud Lenten resource. Below you will find a link to our 2025 Sumud Lenten Resource Guide, which has six weeks worth of links to guide you in Lenten devotions, discussion, and prayer. This series was a collaboration between ELCA Sumud, the ELCJHL, and the Bethlehem Bible College. You will find voices from ELCJHL pastors, Bethlehem Bible College student theologians, and one of our very own ELCA bishops. We invite you to use these resources in bible study groups, Sumud communities, or however you see fit. Blessed Lent to you and your community.

ELCA Sumud 2025 Lenten Series Resource Guide

How can we use our voices for justice in Palestine and Israel as American Christians?

This Lent, join ELCA Sumud with a six-week series in which Palestinian Christian theologians and pastors will weave together the biblical history of the Holy Land with themes of Jesus’s ministry surrounding empire and justice. Through videos and reflections, we will explore Jesus’s call to disrupt systems of oppression and injustice which still echoes loudly over two thousand years after his death and resurrection. We will have resources available by March 2025 on the Sumud webpage. Special thanks to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and Bethlehem Bible College for their collaboration.