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Emanuel Nine Commemoration video available
Emanuel Nine Commemoration video available

June 17 marks the fifth anniversary of the shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The ELCA Prayer Service for Commemoration of the Emanuel Nine is available on the ELCA website or on YouTube. You can also download a version of the commemoration video.

To honor this day, the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted a resolution to establish June 17 as "Emanuel 9 Day of Repentance," commemorating the martyrdom of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, the Rev. Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson by Dylann Roof, who grew up in the ELCA. Pinckney and Simmons were graduates of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary.

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Worship Resources, PrayersBrian FlatgardEmanuel 9, Racial Justice, Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, Ecumenical and Inter-Religious RelationsComment
Commemorating the Emanuel Nine
Commemorating the Emanuel Nine

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Emanuel Nine, ELCA congregations are encouraged to reaffirm their commitment to repenting for the sins of racism and white supremacy, which continue to plague this church.

An online ELCA prayer service, including leaders from across the church and Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton as preacher, is being planned for June 17, 2020, to mark this fifth anniversary. More is available at elca.org/emanuelnine.

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Worship Resources, Prayers, ResourcesBrian FlatgardEcumenical and Inter-Religious RelationsComment
AFN Interfaith Prayer Vigils for Global Health & Peace, Thursdays in June, 7 - 8 p.m.
AFN Interfaith Prayer Vigils for Global Health & Peace, Thursdays in June, 7 - 8 p.m.

Starting this week, Arizona Faith Network and the Sema Foundation invite you and your family to a series of Virtual Interfaith Prayer Vigils for Global Health & Peace. Join us each Thursday night throughout June from 7 - 8 p.m. as interfaith and community leaders throughout Arizona offer prayers of strength, hope and healing.

The events will be offered in a Zoom webinar format, live streamed to Facebook, and then later posted to YouTube. View all June events here.

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Prayers, Worship ResourcesBrian FlatgardEcumenical and Inter-Religious RelationsComment
Worship in the Home: Sunday, June 7, 2020, The Holy Trinity
Worship in the Home: Sunday, June 7, 2020, The Holy Trinity

In this time of world-wide crisis, congregations throughout this church are not able to gather for worship as the body of Christ. While you cannot be together in person, we can hear the word of God and hold each other in prayer. We offer this brief resource as an aid for prayer in the home. As with our prayers in the gathered assembly for worship, you are encouraged to prepare or adapt them locally for your context.

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Worship ResourcesBrian FlatgardComment
Christ in Our Home: Email Edition free through June 30, 2020
Christ in Our Home: Email Edition free through June 30, 2020

With the outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 in North America and around the world many people may be without a physical copy of Christ in Our Home. To assist with devotional life during this time, Augsburg Fortress is offering a limited-time complementary email subscription. Sign up and we will deliver the daily devotional to your email at 4am Central Time through June 30, 2020.

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Worship Resources, Prayers, ResourcesBrian FlatgardELCA WorshipComment
All Creation Sings: Hymns of Lament and Healing
All Creation Sings: Hymns of Lament and Healing

When we must bear persistent pain and suffer with no cure in sight, come, Holy Presence, breathe your peace with gifts of warmth and healing light, begins the opening stanza to “When We Must Bear Persistent Pain,” a hymn that will be included as one of two hundred hymns and songs in the forthcoming worship resource, All Creation Sings.

As this resource was developed the themes of “lament” and “healing” were identified as topics needing additional assembly song. Such songs are needed in every time but now as we are in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, the need is ever more pressing.

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Worship ResourcesBrian FlatgardAll Creation Sings, ELCA WorshipComment
A selection of hymns of lament, hope or trust
A selection of hymns of lament, hope or trust

ELCA Worship is providing resources for home worship. If you don’t have access to a hymnal in your home, the following hymns are provided: Abide with Me | Day by Day | Give Me Jesus | How Long, O God | If You But Trust in God to Guide You | Just a Closer Walk with Thee | My Life Flows On in Endless Song | O God, Our Help in Ages Past | When Peace like a River It Is Well with My Soul

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Worship Resources, ResourcesBrian FlatgardELCA WorshipComment