Under the theme “Sing a New Song,” 385 attendees from Arizona, Nevada, and Utah gathered at Love of Christ Lutheran Church in Mesa, Arizona, for the Grand Canyon Synod Assembly.
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Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest had to bring in the big truck to haul the roomful of donations for families seeking asylum. The pile of clothes, towels, backpacks and food was a testament to your generosity and our concern for asylum seekers.
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Check our Facebook page for Synod Assembly photos. Thanks to Pastor Lars Hammar (Lord of Grace in Marana, AZ) for providing many photos of our church together. Please tag yourself and share these photos. And be sure to post your own photos as well with the #gcsynod hashtag.
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Herb Chilstrom, ELCA's first presiding bishop, has authored eight books since retirement in 1995. After income of more than $180,000, all donated to ELCA seminaries and colleges, he's "going out of business." Some of his books are on one-half price sale at the Assembly. Come and take a look. Find some bargains!
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A big thanks to the volunteers who assembled the name tags and registration packets today in the synod office. It was a Synod Assembly assembly line!
From Spirit of Hope in Mesa: Lynel Schleicher, Butch Schleicher, Marilyn Farrar and Bobbi Edwardson. From Bethany in Scottsdale: Mary Anne Clark.
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Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton shares what it means to be called, "For such a time as this," in her 2019 video message to ELCA Synod Assemblies.
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Let’s create a new song! Review our assembly resources page, where voting members and visitors can quickly find information and tools needed before and during the 2019 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly.
During the week of assembly, this page will temporarily replace our regular home page. From June 9-16, 2019, you’ll be able to quickly access this resource page by visiting gcsynod.org or clicking the logo at the top of any page on the site. (You can find other assembly information on the main assembly page.)
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As part of our ever-growing assembly resources, we’re excited to announce the workshops for the 2019 assembly. We bet you can’t pick just one.
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Attendees can get a discount when they stay at the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, but reservations must be made by 5/13/19 by calling 480-641-8000. Please do not register online or via the 800 number.
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Our synod assembly has stewardship opportunities for your worshipping communities and voting members. We will be collecting in-kind donations for families seeking asylum, as well as worship offerings to be shared equally with the ELCA Campaign and the Bishop’s Synod Leadership Development Fund.
Items needed include new and WHITE towels, medications, underwear, socks, hygiene items, food, backpacks, used or new clothing. For particular details on these items, please view our blog post, or read this Word document or PDF.
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Exhibitor display tables are an important part of the Synod Assembly. They give our ministry partners an opportunity to tell people in our synod about their ministries. Would you be interested in helping coordinate the display tables? The coordinator would work in tandem with the synod office to contact the list of exhibitors, get them registered and provide our guidelines for tables. This would take place in February and March. The coordinator would also oversee the set-up of the display table space at the Synod Assembly in June. Please contact Norine Floyd at office@gcsynod.org or 602-957-3223 for more details.
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Save the date for our Synod Assembly, June 14 & 15, 2019. Our theme this year is “Sing to the Lord a New Song!” We gather at Love of Christ Lutheran Church, 1525 N. Power Rd., Mesa, AZ 85205.
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