Pastor Jason Adams will be installed at Good Samaritan, The Lakes Lutheran Church (8200 W. Sahara, Las Vegas NV 89117), on Friday, 10/21/2022, at 5 pm, with a reception to follow.
Bishop Hutterer will preach. Rostered ministers are invited to process. The color of the day is green.
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The Office of the Bishop is on the road again, and maintains our existing programs and day-to-day functions.
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The Office of the Bishop does some traveling this week for meetings, conferences, and preaching.
We also share photos from the Synod Council and Dean Retreat last weekend at Ascension Lutheran in Paradise Valley, where our guests and presenters included the ELCA’s Vance Blackfox, Native American Urban Ministry’s Rev. Mary Louise Frenchman and Wanda Frenchman, as well as Patterson Yazzie and Patty Charley with Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission.
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The Office of the Bishop attends the Synod Council and Dean Retreat this weekend, in addition to ongoing meetings and day-to-day operations.
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Again, we are gathering.
For those of us who are blessed with the health to gather in-person, we are increasingly finding ourselves grouped up again: in meeting rooms, around altars, in schools and universities, and around dinner tables. We look ahead to busy seasons of Thanksgiving and Advent with familiar feelings of hope and sometimes dread, along with some new emotions.
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The Office of the Bishop attends to meetings and day-to-day business this week. We also share photos from Bishop Hutterer’s visit to Dove of Peace Lutheran in Tucson and at the Installation of Pastor Greg Hartman at New Spirit Lutheran in Tucson.
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The Office of the Bishop team processes info and action items from a recent staff retreat, and also attends meetings and events like the Installation of Pastor Greg Hartman at New Spirit Lutheran in Tucson. We also share photos from Bishop Hutterer’s visit to American Lutheran in Sun City.
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The Office of the Bishop team takes a staff retreat one day of this week as we also prepare for fall events. We also share photos from the Becoming Conference.
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Pastor Greg Hartman will be installed at New Spirit Lutheran in Tucson on Saturday, 9/10/2022, at 11am MST/PDT, 12pm MDT. Rostered ministers are invited to process: color of the day is green. Bishop Hutterer will be preaching. A reception will follow.
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The Office of the Bishop team takes some vacation time, travels the synod to preach, and maintains the day-to-day operations.
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As we process our Churchwide Assembly experiences with some more news and photos, we get back into our synodical expression with visits to congregations and also return to Chicago for the Becoming Conference.
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As this post and newsletter comes out, we are still in Churchwide Assembly mode: view our full coverage here, with more photos in this post.
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This week is all about the Churchwide Assembly: view our full coverage here.
We also share photos from the Installation of Rev. Erin Morris at Resurrection Lutheran in Oro Valley and Bishop Hutterer’s visit to Central Lutheran in Arizona City.
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The ELCA gathers for its Churchwide Assembly next week, August 8–12, 2022. As I travel to Ohio to attend this gathering, I invite you to pray for all 900 voting members are attending, including ten others who will represent the Grand Canyon Synod: Glenn Austad, Roger Bailey, Pastor David Brandfass, Barbara Carl, Laura Hollengreen, Hannah Manzanares, Pastor Matthew Metevelis, Pastor Charles Newman, Sarah Morris, and Pastor Christine Stoxen.
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This week we turn our attention to the Installation of Rev. Erin Morris at Resurrection Lutheran in Oro Valley as well as the Heidi Gerrish Celebration of Life, both on July 30, 2022.
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At the Office of the Bishop, we prepare for upcoming fall events, do some traveling, and take some time to do maintenance on our data systems. We also share Bishop Hutterer’s photos from Campformation, the installation of Rev. Jose Valenzuela at Community of Grace in Peoria, and visits to Faith Lutheran in Yuma and Mount Cross in Payson.
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We’ve received reports of emails from a fake Gmail account purporting to be Bishop Hutterer, which you can ignore. Better yet, use your report spam button to flag it and get it shut down.
You will likely be asked for a contribution of gift cards or something else of that nature. You will notice that it is not coming from her official email address. The Bishop will never send such a message or solicit funds in this way.
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At the Office of the Bishop, we prepare for upcoming fall events and the Installation of Rev. Jose Valenzuela at Community of Grace in Peoria and other upcoming installations.
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Vacation and meetings and conferences continue for the Office of the Bishop, as well as planning and day-to-day activities.
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There’s lots of travel for vacation and meetings and conferences for the Office of the Bishop, as well as our regular week-to-week duties.
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