News

During the year-long pandemic, MIF provided assistance to investors who needed immediate access to their funds and to borrowers who needed flexibility with their loan payments. Their update is full of stories, videos, and investment information.

We collaborated with our ministry partner, the ELCA Federal Credit Union, to offer expedited loans for congregations, ministries and individuals, as well as Paycheck Protection Program loans for congregations and ministries to keep employees on the payroll and continue operations.

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Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest shares their 2021 update.

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Most of us have experienced tremendous hardships this year, and Las Vegas was also hit incredibly hard by the pandemic. However, at LSSN we didn’t step back we stepped up. Since March 2020, we have served nearly 70,000 Las Vegans through our food pantry distributions, and the need is increasing.

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Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service acknowledges it has been a difficult year for all of us.

Despite restrictive policy changes and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, LIRS has remained committed to our biblical mandate to welcome the stranger.

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Living Christ Lutheran Church, Flagstaff, shares their profile in Living Lutheran as their 2021 update.

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Rev. Adama FAYE, president of Église Luthérienne du Senegal (The Lutheran Church of Senegal) sends greetings in this 2021 update.

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Rev. Roberto Federico Trejo Haager, Pastor President of Iglesia Luterana Mexicana (ILM, Mexican Lutheran Church), sends greetings and blessings to the members of the Grand Canyon Synod.

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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chandler, shares their 2021 update.

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Our ELCA Foundation planners, Lisa Marie Higginbotham and Josh Kerney, share a video update on how making a plan can change the world. Contact Lisa Marie here. Contact Josh here.

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Grace Lutheran Church, Phoenix, shares their 2021 update.

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In the Congregation Transition Team’s report, Dr. Jerry Kingston, Rev. Doris Nolan, Rev. Patricia Reed detail how the synod entered into a collaborative partnership with the Rocky Mountain Synod in our ministry to congregations in transition.

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Celebrating their fifth anniversary as a financial ministry of the ELCA, the ELCA Federal Credit Union is open to every ELCA member, synod, congregation and ministry—and their employees.

In this update we hear how in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as congregations and ministries closed their doors, the Credit Union responded swiftly to growing needs for financial assistance.

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Emmanuel Sudanese Lutheran Church, Glendale shares the gifts of song and praise in their 2021 update.

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Amidst the changing landscape of the pandemic, California Lutheran University shares how over 4,000 students learn virtually or in hybrid classrooms in several different centers in California.

A member of the Network of Colleges and Universities of the ELCA, Cal Lutheran equips graduates who are called and empowered to serve the neighbor so that all may flourish.

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In his 2021 update, Rev. Miguel F. Gomez-Acosta, Director for Evangelical Mission and Bishop’s Associate for Congregational Vitality, reflects on the abundant generosity and innovation in a year like no other.

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Brian Flatgard, Director of Communication, reports on a very busy year of communications for our synod.

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View this fresh 2021 introduction to Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Carefree, Arizona. Through interviews with staff, guests and friends, viewers learn what is unique about the retreat center, and why Spirit in the Desert is a holy place where people experience the love of God, joyful hospitality and renewal of their callings in the world.

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Myrna Wells-Ulland, President of the Grand Canyon Women of the ELCA, shares their 2021 update in a letter and video message.

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In her 2021 update, Rev. Jacqueline Pagel, Bishop’s Associate for Candidacy and Faith Formation, gives a brief overview of the different ways ministry intersected as we grow the our synod into a great place to express the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Paul Gryniewicz, Synod Council Vice President, asks what it means to be church in a year of accelerated change in his 2021 update.

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