Lutheran Social Services of Nevada (LSSN), is matching “Santas” (sponsors) with the wish lists from the children of LSSN clients and seniors in LSSN’s support programs.
Sponsor information must be collected no later than December 4th, and all gifts must be at LSSN by December 14th. More information will be published on our website, on our Facebook page, and through local congregations.
Read MoreThroughout the Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas season, we highlight submissions to the 2020 Generosity Film Festival.
This week we share the winner of the Best Community Impact Story and Best Editing Award, from Mount Cross Lutheran Church in Payson, Arizona. Their story of generosity: opening Payson's first homeless and homeless veteran warming center.
Read MoreELCA Mission Support unveils a brand-new digital platform for Stories of Faith in Action, featuring content in a modern, dynamic format, mixing video and visual elements with stories to take you further into the work of Mission Support.
This site is a fantastic tool to include in your next stewardship communication or as part of your annual meeting materials.
Read MoreShop ELCA Good Gifts for 50 different gifts that grow the church, fight hunger and transform lives – one goat, water well or school uniform at a time. ELCA.org/goodgifts
Read MoreShopping for someone with everything they need? Shop ELCA Good Gifts for 50 different gifts that grow the church, fight hunger and transform lives – one goat, water well or school uniform at a time. ELCA.org/goodgifts
Read MoreThroughout the Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas season, we highlight submissions to the 2020 Generosity Film Festival.
This week we share the winner of our Most Contagious Generosity Story Award, from Ginny Phillips, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Tucson. View in this blog post or on Vimeo.
Read MoreThe ELCA Fund for Leaders supports students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries to become pastors and deacons in our church. This year, 297 students are receiving just over $2.8 million in scholarship support. In this video, many of them would like to express their thanks to you for making their scholarships possible. Learn more at ELCA.org/FundForLeaders.
Read MoreRick Steves, guidebook author and travel TV host, Bishop Eaton, and Bishop Shelley Bryan Wee host an online benefit for ELCA World Hunger. They speak about how COVID-19 is increasing hunger around the world at an alarming rate. They also share how we can unite as a church and make a difference.
Read MoreNaples, Italy, was struck by COVID-19 in the spring, when the country faced the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world. Lutheran Disaster Response supported a Lutheran hospital, L'Ospedale Evangelico Villa Betania, with a grant to provide personal protective equipment and more as they treated people with the virus.
Read MoreBeginning first with publishing a weekly take-home Bible Study and a Family Sunday Worship Guide, House of Prayer has now transitioned to Drive-in Worship broadcast on low-frequency FM 107.9. It's fun to see cars lined up in the parking lot and hear the honked Amens.
Read MoreIn Junction City, Ohio, New Lebanon Lutheran Church runs the Shepherd’s Table feeding ministry. The congregation works with others in its town to make sure that every Tuesday there’s a free meal available to those who need it.
Read MoreWith the help and partnership of St. Mary’s Food Bank, semi-load deliveries of food are now distributed from the Navajo Lutheran Mission campus to hungry households from miles around.
Rivaling Walmart’s contactless delivery, over 300 households were registered, loaded and drove away—or in one case, rode away!
Read MoreA strange school year begins at Navajo Mission Preparatory School, but they’re ready.
A partner congregation has committed to helping meet the goal of 40 Chromebooks to bridge the digital divide. A $25,000 Relief grant from No Kid Hungry extends the breakfast and lunch program to siblings. Students receive at-home delivery of food and met their teacher through the bus window.
Read MoreOur very own Pastor Kate Adelman and Patterson Yazzie are featured in the latest ELCA Covid response video featuring the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission.
Read MoreIn India, many people who had migrated to another part of the country for work lost their jobs due to COVID-19 closures. Without income or food, many made the long journey home on foot.
As church together we are there. Lutheran Disaster Response have supported companion churches as they have distributed water and food, and opened their church doors for rest.
Read MoreIn their latest newsletter, Lutheran Social Services of Nevada (LSSN) highlights their rapid expansion of their current food pantry from its 750 square feet to 3,000 square feet. Expansion is set to be completed in September.
Read MorePastor Joel Brandt, Gloria Dei Lutheran In Huntington Station, N.Y., shares how an overwhelming response to their ask for food pantry help on a previously unused Facebook page enabled them to help another church meet their matching goal.
Read MoreWe continue our 50·40·10 celebration with a message from Eileen Ruppel-Doan, Master Divinity Student, United Lutheran Seminary. Ruppel-Doan shares her appreciation of growing up blessed with female pastors her entire life.
Read MoreMichaela Shelly writes, “Walking off of the Mass Gathering stage after speaking at the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering, I don’t think I fully understood the magnitude of what I had just done. I stood up on stage to show others how you can take some of your worst moments, such as my terminal diagnosis, and use them to help remind others they do not have to feel alone in all of this.”
In this post, read her letter and watch her heartfelt Youth Gathering talk. Read her blog here.
Read MoreWe continue our 50·40·10 celebration with a message from Pastor Lu Cantrell of Peace Lutheran Church in Morris, Illinois. Pastor Cantrell shares the special circumstances of her unique ordination.
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