Remember in prayer our ELCA missionaries, global companions and international leaders. Pray for their health and well-being as well as their continuing witness and service in the world even though some of
our work together may have been temporarily suspended.
These petitions are offered as guides to prayer for the global, social and outreach ministries of the ELCA, as well as for the needs and circumstances of our neighbors, communities and world. Thank you for your continued prayers for the life and mission of this church. Download a Word doc, or PDF for letter size printout or legal size printout, or view the ELCA resource page.
Read MoreAscension of Our Lord. While we look forward to everlasting life and being with Jesus in heaven, pray that we will live with confidence and joy in the promise of salvation and the presence of the Spirit, which sustains and equips us for the work we are called to today as people of the good news.
Read MoreOn this seventh Sunday of Easter, we gather in our homes and yet together as one, praying for the church, the world, and all who are in need. Our response to each petition is, “Your mercy is great.”
Read MoreApril 1, Census Day, is a key reference date for the 2020 Census—not a deadline. You can still respond after that date, and the deadline has been moved to fall of 2020.
The Arizona and Nevada Census 2020 websites, loaded with resources, are https://census.nv.gov and https://azcensus2020.gov/be-counted.
Bahney Dedolph, Deputy Director with the Arizona Council of Human Service Providers, shares words of encouragement on how we can lift our low response rates.
Read MoreGive thanks for parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents whose example and convictions teach children and youth the values of compassion, generosity and respect for one another.
Read MoreAs part of the ELCA’s COVID-19 response, ELCA congregations can raise funds for their feeding ministries through ELCA World Hunger Daily Bread Matching Grants. Learn more and apply.
The application due date for ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants has been extended to June 1.
Read MoreJoin Bishop Kevin L. Strickland and Bishop Elizabeth Eaton on Thursday, May 21st 7-8:30pm EDT for a Webinar: “Becoming the body of Christ where all bodies are valued: A conversation around the ELCA’s resolution to condemn White Supremacy.”
We encourage you to sign-up for this call by clicking this link here: https://www.elca-ses.org/eventdetail/13995520
Read MoreGrand Canyon Synod members attended a free stewardship presentation by Evan Moilan, CFRE, entitled “Stewardship in Uncertain Times” on Monday, May 18, 2020.
In this seminar, Evan Moilan used historical giving data and new forecasts to share best practices that congregations can engage right now, and over the next few months to ensure generosity not only continues but strengthens in their ministries.
Read MoreOn the ELCA’s COVID-19 resource page, www.elca.org/publichealth, an extensive PDF in entitled Resources for Returning to In-Person Worship provides guidelines and considerations for when and how to re-open our church buildings. View Spanish version here.
The ELCA will monitor changing developments and update these guidelines accordingly.
Read MoreHere to Serve: Being Church in the Time of COVID-19, a weekly online gathering for ELCA Leaders, Wednesdays, 1PM Central.
Our weekly gathering on May 20 will focus on children and youth. The conversation will be facilitated by Linda Staats, founder of HomeGrown Faith and ELCA Coordinator for The Generosity Project.
Read MorePray that our baptism into the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ will banish our fears of doing God’s work in the world and will prepare us daily for sharing the gospel and serving our neighbor with gentleness and reverence.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreELCA 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
Read MoreThank God for our special relationship with the Reformed Church in America, a full communion partner with the ELCA since 1997; pray for the church, its diverse ministries and its members and leaders; and pray that
together we will find mutual support, new partnerships and new resources for the work of sharing the gospel and serving our neighbor.
The love of God and the Spirit of truth dwell within us and prevail in our daily lives. Pray that with this knowledge and inspiration, we will feel encouraged to follow the commandments and ways of God and to exemplify love, truth, mercy and service in the world.
Read MoreGive thanks and praise to God that our church and lives are built on the solid, enduring foundation of Christ; pray that we, as siblings in Christ, will be bold and welcoming in our invitation to our neighbors to believe, have faith and experience the blessings of community with us.
Read MoreOn Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020, Presiding Bishop Eaton will provide a video sermon for use by congregations. The sermon will use the texts for Trinity Sunday, Year A, with a focus on II Corinthians 13:11-13 and Matthew 28: 16-20. It will be ready for release on May 31st, with Spanish subtitles, a printed text in English and Spanish.
Read MoreWorship in the Home, Sixth Sunday of Easter. 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.
Read MorePray for synod leaders who are discerning new plans, formats and dates for their assemblies with concern for the health and well-being of leaders, voting members and others; pray the Spirit will guide their plans and strengthen their unwavering work of proclaiming the gospel, growing the church, serving our neighbor and doing God’s work in the world.
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