Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Stephen Beyer, Lord of Life, Sun City West, who celebrates 41 years on June 5.
Rev. Jason Adams, Living Hope, Las Vegas, who celebrates 8 years on June 5.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Joseph Doherty, New Promise, St. George, who celebrates 23 years on June 4.
Rev. Floyd Anderson, who celebrates 61 years on June 4.
Rev. Keith Hardy, who celebrates 43 years on June 4.
Rev. Maria Valenzuela, who celebrates 33 years on June 4.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Thomas Dunham, Streams in the Desert, Tucson, who celebrates 43 years on June 3.
Rev. Patricia Lowe, Emmanuel, Prescott Valley, who celebrates 15 years on June 3.
Rev. Mark Halvorson, who celebrates 49 years on June 3.
Rev. Donald Jacobson, who celebrates 60 years on June 3.
Rev. Greg Wenhold, who celebrates 43 years on June 3.
Synod Assembly voting members were sent an informational email on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. If you are a voting member and did not receive this email (and you have checked your spam folder!), please call Theresa at the Synod Office at (602) 957-3223.
We’ve also included the information in this post.
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After a long assembly week, the Office of the Bishop will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, June 13-14, 2022.
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This week we celebrated the following ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Jon Clutz, who celebrated 58 years on May 27.
Rev. Benjamin Bergren, Community, Las Vegas, who celebrated 24 years on May 28.
Rev. Nicholas Mays, who celebrated 56 years on May 29.
Rev. Norene Smith, who celebrated 39 years on May 29.
Rev. Leroy Rehrer, who celebrated 45 years on May 29.
Rev. Ronald Glusenkamp, who celebrated 41 years on May 29.
Rev. Randall Olson, Honor Health, Scottsdale, who celebrated 46 years on May 30.
Rev. Dennis Nelson, who celebrated 51 years on May 30.
Rev. Andrea Cain, Desert Cross, Tempe, who celebrated 14 years on June 1.
Rev. Brian Cain, Spirit of Joy, Gilbert, who celebrated 14 years on June 1.
Rev. Richard Lawrence, who celebrated 38 years on June 1.
Rev. Eugene Perry, who celebrated 64 years on June 1.
Rev. Carol Breimeier, New Spirit, Tucson, who celebrated 22 years on June 2.
Rev. Ronald Pechauer, who celebrated 59 years on June 2.
Rev. Roland Harder, Our Saviour’s, Buckeye, who celebrated 56 years on June 2.
Rev. Ellis Eskritt, who celebrated 57 years on June 2.
Rev. Gary Benson, who celebrated 48 years on June 2.
Rev. James Lundeen, who celebrated 57 years on June 2.
Rev. Lloyd Wallace, who celebrated 59 years on June 2.
Rev. Ernie Larsen, who celebrated 59 years on June 2.
Rev. Fred Nelson, New Spirit, Tucson, who celebrated 22 years on June 2.
It’s all hands on deck as the Office of the Bishop prepares for our 2022 Assembly!
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Infections and hospitalizations are increasing quickly across much of the South and Southwest. Average daily case reports have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Arizona, South Carolina and West Virginia.
According to the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Levels, Clark County is the first to be at medium level after months of low levels in our synod. All of our synod’s remaining counties are low level: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Washington, Yavapai, and Yuma.
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The New and Renewing Team of the Grand Canyon Synod is excited to announce the 2nd round of Lilly 3E Vital Right Shaped Ministries Vitality and Innovation Grants. Apply using this Word document.
Applications are due by June 10, 2022. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Pr. Miguel Gomez-Acosta at miguel.gomez-acosta@elca.org.
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Grace Lutheran in Phoenix is gearing up for their summer heat respite program, which will run 6/13 – 8/26/2022, Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-4:30 pm. This will be their 17th summer of providing heat respite!
Their mission during the summer months is to provide a space for heat relief while building community through the sharing of community resources, meals, water, and ourselves in a place of being, belonging, and becoming. Volunteers and donations of food and items requested.
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Pastor Karn Carroll shares news and photos from their new mural on Glendale Avenue and 12th Street. The mural was on a recent Channel 12 new report (starts at 12 minutes into the video).
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Join Deacon Janice Zimbelman in a journey of learning to lead more effectively. Deacon Janice will be participating in Excellence in Leadership, offered online through the Rocky Mountain Synod of the ELCA, starting this coming September. She is looking for rostered and lay leaders to join her in this journey of learning and growing. For more information about Excellence in Leadership: rmselca.org/excellence-in-leadership
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The Hunger Advocacy Fellow will participate in a year-long transformative experience that combines leadership development and faith formation with impactful advocacy that moves us toward an end to hunger and a just world where all are fed.
The 2022-23 Hunger Advocacy Fellow placed with Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Arizona (LAMA), will serve as a member of the staff of this ELCA-affiliated SPPO as a full-time contract employee.
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Voting members at the 2022 assembly are encouraged to review two proposed updates to our synod constitution.
By SC20.02.07 the Synod Council recommends the Synod Assembly adopt the non-required amendments as approved by the 2019 Churchwide Assembly. Click here to access the recommended provisions as PDF.
The S7.11.01 bylaw change comes as a recommendation of the 2022 Synod Council, click here to access as PDF.
We pray for Rev. Joaquin Garcia, Joaquin Garcia and the people of Iglesia Luterana Vida Nueva in Glendale, part of the Capital Conference. Visit their site at facebook.com/Ilvidanueva.
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Stirred up in the Spirit, the theme of the 2022 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly, draws on the common work we do as Synod.
In a world where we can easily provoke each other in unhelpful and even harmful ways, this assembly focuses on the ways we get to provoke each other in good and Spirited ways. We challenge each other to recognize that we are called to be public witnesses of God’s love and hope in the world. I pray this assembly renews our enthusiasm and confidence to provoke actions of love and good deeds.
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We pray for Rev. Richard Peterson and the people of Faith Lutheran Church in Yuma, part of the Cactus Conference. Visit their site at faithyuma.com, and their social media pages on Facebook and YouTube.
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We share this news from Paul Gerrish that his son, Stephen, is out of the hospital. We continue to pray for the Gerrish family. Read more in our initial post, visit their GoFundMe page, and get CaringBridge health updates for Justin and Katherine, who remain recovering in the hospital.
By your power, great God, our Lord Jesus healed the sick and gave new hope to the hopeless. Though we cannot command or possess your power, we pray for those who want to be healed. Mend their wounds, soothe fevered brows, and make broken people whole again. Help us to wel-come every healing as a sign that, though death is against us, you are for us, and have promised renewed and risen life in Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen.
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O God of life, you are older than time. You have seen generations who have died through sacrifice, war, courage and folly. You have comforted generations who mourned and grieved and sang solemn songs and laid flowers on graves. Gather us in your embrace and cradle us with your compassion. As we remember those who have died in past wars and conflicts, help us to remember that you were there when the mountains were formed. You were there to sooth our grief and breathe hope into the hopeless. You are with us still. We give you thanks for life in Jesus and pray that your lives may be reflections of his love. Amen.
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We share a video highlighting Fund for Leaders scholar Wanda Frenchman, who helps lead the Native American Urban Ministry in Phoenix, Ariz. which was founded by her mother, Mary Louise Frenchman.
Wanda is participating in the TEEM program at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. This allows her to pursue rostered ministry while she continues to lead her community in Phoenix.
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