Matt's parents struggled with repeatedly finding new services for him due to violent behaviors, but his story has a happy ending. After he moved into a Mosaic home just over three years ago, everything changed. Matt's mom called it “a complete turnaround” for her son. Read more from Mosaic.
Read MoreOn Friday, October 8th, 2021, the Navajo Mission Preparatory School completed its first quarter. While this has been a challenging quarter with Covid-19 still looming large, the school has moved forward in some very positive ways.
We are very proud of so many of our families who have embraced our read-at-home program. One of the single biggest predictors of success in school is whether or not a child is read to in the home.
Read MoreOver the past 25 years, thousands of good Samaritans in our community have given their blood, sweat and tears to the agency I am blessed to lead..
I am proud to announce that our 25th Anniversary Gala raised over $68,000 for Lutheran Social Services of Nevada, making this our most successful fundraising event ever. These funds will all go directly back into support for LSSN’s vital programs, including providing nearly 10,000 meals to people in need through the DigiMart Food Pantry, purchasing three months of hot, nutritious meals for the Heart of the City Senior Meal Program, housing and supportive services to stabilize four families, and more.
Read MoreIn this post we share a vide of the online benefit for ELCA World Hunger, where Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves celebrate World Food Day! Steves interviews people on the ground who do the dynamic work of fighting hunger around the world. If you'd like to give a gift, visit ELCA.org/EndHunger.
Read MoreThe October 2021 issue of Living Lutheran focuses on Intergenerational Ministry, with several articles and perspectives on the topic. The primary article shares many resources, including an interview with Linda Staats of the Generosity Project, as well as photos from the Grand Canyon Synod.
View the article online or in its magazine format, and find the study guide here.
Read MoreSupported in part by ELCA World Hunger, the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) in Japan is a nine-month service leadership training program that draws people from around the world, allowing them to live and work together as they learn agricultural skills they can take back to their home communities.
Read MoreThis week’s Story of Faith in Action features Abide, a small-group ministry for ELCA members between 18 and 35. The program started in early 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began, with leadership funding from Mission Support.
Read the story in this post, view as a PDF resource, or visit our SOFIA 2021-2022 page for all resources.
Read MoreThe ELCA Fund for Leaders supports students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries to become pastors and deacons in our church. This year, 317 students are receiving over $3.2 million in scholarship support. Many of them would like to express their thanks to you for making their scholarships possible. Learn more at ELCA.org/FundForLeaders.
View a brief thank you message and the full awards celebration in this post. View many of the students’ videos on the ELCA YouTube page.
Read MoreIn her letter introducing Stories of Faith in Action, Bishop Eaton notes that “the disciples in John’s Gospel approach ministry challenges with a scarcity mindset. Jesus shows us a different way: trusting in God’s awesome abundance.”
Read MoreThis week’s Story of Faith in Action features San Gabriel Lutheran Church in Alvarado, Texas, built up by the generosity of others — church members, nearby ELCA congregations and, through Mission Support funds, the ELCA Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod.
Read the story in this post, view as a PDF resource, or visit our SOFIA 2021-2022 page for all resources.
Read MoreFor folk musician Joe Troop, a 2019 visit to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands opened his eyes to the suffering experienced by migrants trying to enter the United States. Two years later, he returned to Nogales, to volunteer at a migrant shelter with Cruzando Fronteras.
The experience that inspired him to write a song, Mercy for Migrants, performed with Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn and Trey Boudreaux. Read the article in Episcopal News Service and hear the song on YouTube.
Read MoreThis week’s Story of Faith in Action features our very own Living Christ Lutheran Church in Flagstaff, where grants from the Grand Canyon Synod, funded by ELCA Mission Support, helped sustain Living Christ’s ministry.
Read this story and view the video in this post, view as a PDF resource, or visit our SOFIA 2021-2022 page for all resources.
Read MoreIn this video, Presiding Bishop Eaton and Presiding Bishop Curry of The Episcopal Church share their experiences at the White House advocating for children and families through a series of bills before Congress right now.
Visit The Episcopal Public Policy Network and ELCA Advocacy or more ways to get involved.
Read More“Things have gotten pretty charged this past year in a lot of different ways in our area,” said Seth Nelson, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Ronan, Mont. “People come charged into most situations—they know what they think and they know how to demonize the other side.”
In a world shaped by 24-hour cable news, social media and misinformation spread online, how can Lutherans cut through the noise and speak to each other with civility, compassion and understanding?
Read MoreThis week’s Story of Faith in Action features the Dwelling, an ELCA faith community designed for, but not exclusive to, people in Winston-Salem who are or have been homeless. Funding comes from partnerships with Augsburg, the North Carolina Synod, the Moravian Church in America and the ELCA churchwide organization.
Read this story in this post, view as a PDF resource, or visit our SOFIA 2021-2022 page for all resources.
Read MoreWorking the overnight shift at the chapel at Ramstein Air Base in Germany is a challenge, but Chaplain Katie Osweiler is thankful to be helping refugees from Afghanistan on their way to new lives free of the Taliban.
Read MoreAs the country marks the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, this month, the legacy of Lutheran Disaster Response of New York (LDRNY) lives on in New York City.
Spontaneously created in a matter of weeks following the 9/11 terror attacks, LDRNY was a partnership of the Metropolitan New York Synod and the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
Read MoreStephen Bouman was bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan New York Synod at the time of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. He shares his faith journey in this article in Living Lutheran.
Read MoreWhen Daniel Bowman Jr. received an autism diagnosis in his mid-30s, so much suddenly clicked into place.
An Episcopalian, Bowman shares how he learned the ways he was best suited to serve in his congregation and how the traditional idea of church services is geared toward neurotypical people.
Read MoreThere are all sorts of instances that demonstrate faithfulness across Mosaic; the story of Brother Raymond Papenfuss and Matt Cook, a person Mosaic in northern Indiana supports, is among them. The two have a faithful, unbreakable bond rarely seen.
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