As we prepare for our upcoming “How Your Charitable Heart Can Leave a Legacy” Zoom presentation on 9/21/2021, we meet one of our two regional gift planners and presenters, Josh Kerney.
Working with the ELCA Foundation, Josh serves our synod by helping individuals and organizations leave a legacy.
Read MoreThe United States has withdrawn from a decades long war in Afghanistan. Under a special immigrant program, the U.S. has been evacuating thousands of Afghans who served alongside Americans.
Lutheran Disaster Response is reaching out to synods, congregations and affiliates that are taking an active role in welcoming Afghan families.
Read More“Even the most right-leaning isolationists” are coming forward to help those fleeing Afghanistan, a Phoenix pastor said. A mass mobilization is underway, as reported in this New York Times article featuring Arizona and Minnesota.
Read MoreThrough Thrivent Choice, you can contribute to organizations and causes you care about – and influence how Thrivent distributes some of its charitable funding.
Considering the Grand Canyon Synod for your Thrivent Choice Dollars? Visit the GCS page to give through Thrivent Choice.
Read MoreSt. Andrew Lutheran, Las Vegas is seeking an organist and/or pianist to play for two Sunday church services held at 8:30am and 10:00am.
Read MoreSt. Andrew Lutheran, Las Vegas is seeking an audio-visual technician to support Sunday morning worship running their PowerPoint and sound system. Two morning services at 8:30 and 10:00. Additional hours possible by working in our office or remotely. Knowledge of Power Point creation and file sharing helpful.
Read MoreIn the August newsletter of the Navajo Lutheran Mission (NELM), Kate Adelson writes, “Blessed with resources and generous donors, the Mission’s potential is enormous…and we have the equally enormous challenge to listen for the true need, consider consequences before we act, serve without dominating, love unconditionally.”
Read MoreELCA Treasurer Lori Fedyk invites you to subscribe to Administration Matters, a bimonthly publication addressing common, practical issues including finance, governance, risk management, taxes and legal concerns, as well as other topics of interest relating to day-to-day operations and management in church settings.
Read MoreThe Installation of The Rev. Brenda Bos as Bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the ELCA will take place on Sunday, September 12 at 4:00 ppm MST/PDT at Angelica Lutheran Church at 1345 S. Burlington Ave. in Los Angeles. A reception will follow. The Installation livestream will be available on the synod YouTube channel.
Read MoreRyan P. Cumming & Conrad A. Braaten join Spirited Book Club to discuss The Forgotten Luther III: Reclaiming a Vision of Global Community. The online club is FREE, on Thursday, October 7, 2021 and Thursday, October 21, 2021. Click a link for more info and to register.
This book, the third in the Forgotten Luther series, invites congregations, with the help of five prominent church leaders and Luther scholars, to consider the shape of global mission in today's world.
Read MoreFrom Religion News Service: With Rosh Hashana commencing Monday evening (Sept. 6), and Yom Kippur following 10 days later, the global Jewish community finds itself in the heart of two seasons — giving season and receiving season.
Read MoreFrom Religion News Service: 'We believe it's a gift not only to our Native people, (but) from our Native people to the dominant culture,' said Terry Wildman, the lead translator and project manager of the First Nations Version.
Read MoreFrom Religion News Service: Traditionally, clergy operate at their community’s center. But for some, following a call to minister has meant going to the margins — to the digital pastures of TikTok or prison ministry at Rikers Island. From rural chaplains ministering in remote areas to ex-journalists in New York City, these ministers followed their spiritual calling to unexpected ends.
Read MoreThree innovators in mission: Lamin Sanneh, Lesslie Newbigin, and Dorothy Day is a Zoom lecture presented by Dr. George Hunsberger, September 28 from 2-3:30 pm MST/PDT. Free Event! RSVP at bit.ly/2021schererlecture. View PDF.
Read MoreCamp ALOMA is in retreat season mode! Which means you can book your youth group, men's/women’s/family groups, individual or family retreat, couples weekend, Outdoor Ed program, cross country training, and the list can go on and on and on and on.
Read MoreIn Madagascar, the current infant and maternal mortality rate is 353 per 100,000 live births. The Malagasy Lutheran Church (MLC) is helping to work toward the country’s goal of reducing that rate to 70 per 100,000.
In this post, Dr. Rivosoa Nasoloniaina shares the Remafi program, which connects traditional birth attendants in rural areas with hospitals and clinics. Remafi offers trainings, facilitates collaboration and encourages traditional birth attendants to prepare mothers for hospital births.
Read MoreThe Center of Addiction & Faith will hold its third Addiction & Faith Conference October 7-9, 2021 in Bloomington, Minn., to give faith communities tools for responding to the addiction crisis. Registration is open for in-person and virtual attendance at addictionandfaithconference.com. View the flyer and press release.
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.
Read MoreThe theme of this year’s GCS Retired Rostered Leaders Retreat is “Surprises of the Spirit: Stories of Healing and Hope”, with guest presenter Dr. Paul Wee, pastor, author, story-teller: November 1-3, 2021, at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Carefree, AZ.
If you would like to inquire about attending this retreat, please contact Retreat Registrar Jan Fosen at fosen1215@gmail.com or (602) 758-0875.
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