We pray for Rev. Roland Harder and the people of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Buckeye, part of the Cactus Conference.
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Each year, ELCA congregations pledge to send a portion of their offerings to fund ELCA ministries in their synods and beyond. We call these funds Mission Support.
Mission Support enables the ELCA’s more than 8,900 congregations and 65 synods to pool resources to love and serve our neighbors in ways that no individual or congregation can do alone.
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Lutheran World Relief has created FREE, easy-to-use resources based on the RCL Advent texts from the Gospel of Luke, all available at lwr.org/advent.
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Call Camp ALOMA (campaloma.com) to schedule a retreat for your youth group, outdoor bible study group, church leadership retreat, and much more. Want to get away with the family for a weekend? Rent one of the smaller cabins we have to offer.
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We pray for The Rev. Cheryl Fox and the people of St. John’s Episcopal Lutheran Church in Williams, part of the High Country Conference. Visit their site at stjohnswilliamsaz.org and their Facebook page.
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In the past few years there has been a movement within the US American Catholic Church to recognize Dorothy Day as a saint within their tradition. While Lutherans and Catholics have different understandings of saints and sainthood, we too, can look to these people as exemplars of the faith.
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A worship resource for Veterans Day includes prayers, hymn suggestions, and other ideas. Both PDF and Word versions are available at elca.org/Resources/Worship#Liturgy.
The resources may be used and adapted as needed for Veterans Day observances or in weekly worship on the Sunday closest to November 11. To learn more about caring for returning veterans, resources are available from the ELCA Federal Chaplaincy Ministries.
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Bishop Hutterer will preach and preside at the installation of Pastor Ryan Hersch at Peace Lutheran Church in Peoria, part of the Cactus Conference. Find the church at peaceaz.org and 18265 North 89th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85382.
All are welcome Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 3 pm. By scheduling the installation in the afternoon, Peace Lutheran is able to welcome the pastors, deacons, and members of our conference’s congregations to join us for this happy occasion. Pastors are invited to robe, the color of the day is green.
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Intercession prompts:
For those who are afraid in their relationships or have suffered abuse or violence…
For Afghan refugees seeking resettlement and the agencies that accompany them…
For ongoing wildfires and risk of wildfires in the western United States…
For those facing hunger and food insecurity and for farmers and all food production workers…
For the work of feeding and food advocacy organizations such as ELCA World Hunger…
For those whose vocations honor St. Luke, the physician: medical personnel, caregivers, clinical support staff, and all who work in healthcare…
For those who live in fear because of homophobia, sexism, and racism…
For congregations in the midst of stewardship campaigns and ministry visioning for the coming year…
Bethany Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, part of the Northeast Valley Conference, invites you to join Bishop Hutterer in celebrating the installation of Sandy Jones, Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 9 am. Pastors are invited to robe.
Located 4300 North 82nd Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85281. Visit their site at bethanyscottsdale.com.
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This Gathering webinar provides information from the Safety & Security team as they prepare for next summer’s event. Topics include Minneapolis safety, COVID-19, and spiritual wellness. For information about the 2022 Gathering, “boundless: God beyond measure,” visit elca.org/Gathering.
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Join Bishop Eaton in giving thanks for this year’s Fund for Leaders recipients, a scholarship program which supports seminary students. We’re grateful for all future ministers, their confidence and courage to lead the church, and the ways they share the love of God in Christ with God’s people. Are you considering a call to ministry? Visit: elcaseminaries.org/
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When the church gathers, we pray for the needs of the world. Like preaching that is both rooted in scripture shared across time and space and attentive to the local assembly at the present moment, the sense of “praying for the world” is expansive but also attentive to a particular context.
Evangelical Lutheran Worship encourages that “The prayers [of intercession] are prepared locally for each occasion” (ELW. p. 105). How can this be done? What practices are useful? What resources can help? Listed in this post are several resources from ELCA Worship or Augsburg Fortress.
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The 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.
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The Station Coffee Company, launched by Crossroads Church in San Tan Valley, is now open Monday-Saturday, 6am-3pm, 130 N. Main Street in Florence, AZ. During October, receive 10% off your coffee order with the code “ELCA.” Join Crossroads and the synod at the ribbon cutting ceremony on October 22, 2021, at 2:30pm.
Pastor Charles Newman from Crossroads says, "The Station Coffee Company is a premiere coffee shop and event space that draws on the Town of Florence’s historic past while creating a thriving future."
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Laura Krueger, of Avondale, Ariz., was re-elected to the churchwide executive board of Women of the ELCA at its August 3-5, 2021, convention. This is Laura’s second term on the board that provides leadership to the churchwide women’s organization. Learn more in this WELCA news story.
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Several US mainline denominations — including the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Methodist Church — encouraged their members to observe a day of remembrance for US Indian boarding schools on Sept. 30. Read the article from Religion News Service.
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As the United States pauses to honor and celebrate the Indigenous people who first settled on the land thousands of years ago, the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA) has released "A Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People." The declaration is a direct result of the social policy resolution "Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery," which was passed by the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Read the declaration in this post.
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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of Indigenous members of our church and society. Bishop Eaton also invites us into a time of confession and commitment.
We confess the church’s failure to address the racism that has so damaged Indigenous communities. We commit to working cooperatively to promote justice for Indigenous people, participating in acts of advocacy, practicing land acknowledgements and taking seriously the experiences of our Indigenous neighbors. Together we are all children of God, redeemed by Jesus, sustained by the Spirit.
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The 2022 Gathering theme song was co-written by Sam Noble and Faith Bartelt while serving on summer staff at Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp in Hillside, CO in 2019.
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