We thank the 70 active and retired rostered ministers who checked in with Bishop Hutterer via our annual rostered minister reports. Your feedback is crucial in weaving the fabric of our synod. And your answers to financial questions help us promote the financial health of our leaders.
There’s still an opportunity to respond. Send in your report today! It takes just a few minutes.
Read MoreELCA World Hunger is excited to share a new opportunity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary’s Center for Climate Justice and Faith.
The Center’s work focuses on helping leaders learn about sustainability, caring for creation and working for justice so that all can enjoy the abundance of God’s creation.
Read MoreThese grants are intended to help congregations become vital and healthy by defining their values, strengthening their mission, noticing their context, and evaluating their ministry. Click to download the application as a Word document.
We hope that you and your community will be innovative and think outside the box. Applications are due by April 20, 2021.
Read MoreLutheran Disaster Response gives an update on several Middle Eastern countries with humanitarian crises.
Read MoreThe Weekly Online Gathering for ELCA Leaders continues this Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 12pm MST and PDT. Links to the meeting at elcacoaching.org, as well as archives. Join Zoom meeting here.
The Eisenhower Matrix: Managing Time and Priorities in a Too-busy World, with The Rev. Dana Peterson, DEM for the Rocky Mountain Synod.
Read MoreFeel the call to be a leader? Know someone who would make a good leader?
Learn more on our nominating page about open positions on synod council, job descriptions, and info on Churchwide assembly. Elections to fill these positions will take place at the 2021 Synod Assembly on June 12, 2021.
Read MorePastor Pam Reynolds was installed at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Sun City West, on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
We reprint an inspiring letter Pastor Reynolds wrote just before she was ordained from the church’s newsletter, Lifelines. Read it below or in this PDF.
Read MoreGenerous scholarships for congregations are available for congregations interested in the Stewardship for All Seasons program. Learn how to do year-round, ongoing stewardship, which results in more money for ministry.
For more information and a brochure about the program, please visit gcsynod.org/stewardship-for-all-seasons.
Read MoreIn conjunction with the amazing audio/video technicians and Bruce Ewing at Community Lutheran in Las Vegas, we are putting together a virtual choir as part of the 2021 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly.
The deadline to sign up for virtual choir sign up is April 30, 2021, limited to 80 people. Learn more on our virtual choir page.
Read MorePrescott’s Daily Courier ran an article featuring Pastor Tricia Lowe of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Prescott Valley. The article, For Christians, COVID-19 darkness illuminates Easter blessing of eternal life, is available on their website and in this PDF.
Read MoreCalifornia Lutheran University and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary have opened the search for a Director of Development – Seminary Relations position on the Thousand Oaks campus. A brief description and additional information regarding the position is available in this PDF.
Read MorePortico is adopting provisions in recent COVID-relief legislation (American Rescue Plan Act) that allow members to reconsider their 2021 FSA elections and adjust, as appropriate, during this one-time opportunity.
Sponsored members can elect to change or begin pretax contributions to an FSA – without experiencing a qualifying life event – during a special enrollment window between April 12 – April 23, 2021.
Read MorePortico reminds us that good sleep is as much a factor of whole-person well-being as diet, exercise, and prayer. Check out the small steps you can take to set yourself up for healthy sleep on 2021 Live Well.
For ELCA-Primary members, both Being and Learn to Live offer more in-depth coaching and tracking that can help you make meaningful, lasting change.
Read MoreLutheran Social Services of the Southwest (LSS-SW) is soliciting items for recently released asylum-seekers. They travel for up to 3 days to their destination in the U.S. All items (see the full list in this post) are non-perishable and can be collected over time, individually/as a group.
Drop items off at their office: 2502 E. University Drive, Suite 125, Phoenix, AZ 85034. If interested, email cshurtz@lss-sw.org.
Read MoreAn increase in unaccompanied children and asylum-seekers arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico has given rise to claims of a crisis. Individuals, families and children seeking protection are no crisis — the crisis is the circumstances they are fleeing and the moral challenge of safe welcome.
To offer hope and hospitality to the sojourner in this season of Easter is to bear witness to the suffering that affects the lives of so many.
Read MorePortico reminds us that if you’re literally feeling the effects of too many hours staring at a computer screen, members with ELCA-primary health benefits now have access to SWORD, a virtual therapy program for joint pain available at no out-of-pocket cost.
Read MoreThe Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is engaged in a global study of contemporary Lutheran identities as they are lived in local church contexts. Between now and June you are invited to take part in a larger conversation, with a discussion guide titled We Believe in the Holy Spirit: Welcome to a Global Conversation on Being Lutheran.
This guide will help lead your congregation’s Christian education and/or youth group on a journey of mutual discovery and learning. View/download the guide.
Read MoreEvangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land Bishop Ibrahim Azar speaks to us from the Old City of Jerusalem about the ongoing impact of the pandemic and the inequitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Read MoreRegistration for the 2022 ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants is now open. Visit ELCA.org/domestichungergrants to learn more about the grants and how to apply.
Organizations applying for an ELCA grant for the first time must register by setting up an account in ELCA GrantMaker in order to access the Domestic Hunger Grant application once it opens on April 19, 2021.
Read MoreThis Lent, Bishop Eaton invites us to participate in the Global Survey on Being Lutheran (en Español: Encuesta Mundial Sobre lo Que Significa Ser Luteran). We also ask that you invite others in your churches to participate. The survey will be open through March 31, and responses gathered will help to shape the 13th LWF Assembly in 2023.
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