2025 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly: Your Questions Answered

When and where is the 2025 Synod Assembly?

The 2025 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly will take place from Thursday, June 12, to Friday, June 13, 2025, at Community Lutheran Church in Las Vegas, Nevada (3720 East Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, NV, 89121).

Why does the assembly location rotate?

With a synod that stretches across Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and the Navajo Nation, we rotate assembly locations between Tucson, Phoenix, and Las Vegas to make participation more equitable across our broad geographic area.

What’s being done to lower costs?

To minimize costs, this year’s assembly is structured to avoid expensive hotel stays on Friday night. Additionally, hosting the assembly in churches rather than hotels significantly reduces expenses for congregations.

How can congregations prepare?

Congregations should elect voting members at their annual meetings. The number of voting members depends on your congregation’s size. Additionally, congregations are encouraged to elect one youth or young adult and one person of color or whose primary language is not English. These elections help us reflect the diversity of God’s people.

Key Dates to Remember

  • February 2025: Registration opens.

  • April 7, 2025: Early-bird registration closes.

  • April 28, 2025: Final day to submit resolutions, memorials, and nominations.

  • May 19, 2025: Registration closes.

  • 5/9/2025: Final day to share your Mission and Ministry Partner stories

  • 5/19/2025: Final day of Registration

  • May 28, 2024, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (tentative): 2026-2027 Mission Plan presentations

  • May 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (tentative): 2026-2027 Mission Plan presentations

What is the schedule?

  • Thursday, June 12: Registration begins 10 am. Assembly from 2–5 PM, followed by heavy appetizers and a 7 PM concert.

  • Friday, June 13: Assembly continues from 8:30 AM–3 PM.

How do I learn more or register?

Registration opens in February 2025, so stay tuned for more details on accommodations, schedules, and how to share your congregation’s Mission and Ministry Partner stories.

Why is the Synod Assembly important?

This is a vital time for our synod to come together in worship, discernment, and decision-making for our shared mission and ministry. Let us gather as one body, united in Christ, to do God’s work across the Grand Canyon Synod.

Detailed voting member information
The first number is congregation size (baptized members), the second number is voting members.

  • Fewer than 175 in congregation = 2 Lay Members

  • 176 to 399 = 3 Lay Members

  • 400 to 649 = 4 Lay Members

  • 650 to 1,299 = 5 Lay Members

  • 1,300 to 1,849 = 6 Lay Members

  • 1,950 to 2,599 = 7 Lay Members

  • 2,600 to 3,249 = 8 Lay Members

  • 3,250 to 3,899 = 9 Lay Members

  • 3,900 to 4,550 = 10 Lay Members

Note: Lay voting members should be split 50/50 male and female.

Additional voting members

We also ask you to keep in mind the continuing resolution adopted by the Synod Council in September, 2024: 

S7.21.B23. In addition to the laity voting members elected in accordance with S7.21.A23: 

a. Congregations may elect one additional lay voting member who is a person of color or person whose primary language is other than English. 

b. Congregations may elect one additional lay voting member who is a youth (confirmed to age 17) or young adult (age 18 to 30, see †S6.04.01.). In all cases, a congregation should strive to elect an equal number of male and female voting members, or as close as possible. 

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