Welcome to Patrick and Molly Gary, the newest members of the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission’s growing staff.
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The Sierra Pacific Synod is collecting funds and working in partnership with Lutheran Disaster Relief and Lutheran Social Services of Northern California to provide immediate relief for those affected by the Dixie Fire and other fires expected to affect California and Nevada this season.
Your contributions will go to emergency relief support for congregations and members impacted by the wildfires. We invite you to make a donation here: https://tinyurl.com/SPSfiresupport
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As we deepen our relationship with the Mexican Lutheran Church (ILM), we revisit this article from the Lutheran World Federation, featuring Rev. Roberto Trejo Haager, Pastor President of the ILM. Trejo will be our guest at the 2021 Bishop’s Fall Gathering.
“In whatever context,” Trejo says, “the Lutheran message has much value and is very important because the gospel message that we transmit is a message about the grace of God.”
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From Forbes, we share this article. Members of the clergy and other student loan borrowers engaged in religious-oriented work may now qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program after being excluded for over a decade.
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In a culture that says bigger is better, it is subversive to take tiny, lasting steps toward learning and growth. Ellie Roscher, author of 12 Tiny Things, will guide you through curating and cultivating your own tiny things practice. Friday, 1/28/2022 - Sunday, 1/30/2022 at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center.
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In this post, we share a summer update from Iglesia Luterana Vida Nueva in Glendale, full of images and good news.
Thank God, Iglesia Luterana "Vida Nueva" survived Covid 19 and starting in May with new strength. We continue to minister to Christian people, the Hispanic community and in a special way to immigrants. We thank God and the Grand Canyon Synod for the spiritual and financial support that you give us, so we can continue the ministry of the Church, serve the community and be able to plan for growth and become self-reliant.
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As part of our Growing Generosity Appeal, we present this video on growing future ministries in the Grand Canyon Synod, planting seeds for Lutheran Campus Ministry ($100,000) and new & emerging ministries ($150,000). Learn more at gcsynod.org/generosity/future-ministries.
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The Grand Canyon Synod Council meeting is this weekend, and our rostered staff continues to visit churches. Highlighted meetings are Bishop Hutterer’s visit with retiring pastor Al Cassel, Pastor Jacqui’s meeting with first call pastors, and Pastor Miguel’s meeting with other Director for Evangelical Mission (DEM) deans.
View all the details for each team member in this post.
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Nationwide, the Delta variant continues to drive case and death numbers up across the country. Daily caseloads have increased tenfold since late June. Death reports, which can lag well behind case data, have doubled. More coronavirus patients are hospitalized than at any point since February.
Risk levels for unvaccinated people in the synod are either very high or extremely high.
Extremely high risk counties for unvaccinated people in our synod include Clark, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma and Washington counties.
Very high risk counties include Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Pima, and Santa Cruz.
Sunday, August 8, 2021 launched an exciting new era at the Navajo Lutheran Mission, as local Navajo leadership is being developed at the Mission’s House of Prayer.
The new Hodza Yaa Ahalyani (Wisdom Keepers) are Rock Point residents Patty Charley, Patterson Yazzie, and Benedict Bedoni, who were affirmed in ceremonies by Bishop Hutterer, Reverend Jacqueline Pagel, and Mission Pastor Kate Adelman.
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Each year the Evangelical Lutheran Education Association (ELEA) publishes a Devotional Guide. View/download as PDF here.
The weekly devotions follow the lectionary beginning in August. The devotions are for professional educators, pastors, and ALL who work with children and youth and their families in any capacity.
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A Time of Remembrance, Thanksgiving, and Reflections for the lives and faith and leadership of:
The Rev. David Walter Preus, Presiding Bishop of the American Lutheran Church, Parish Pastor, Author
The Rev. Dr. Peter Louis Steinke, Parish pastor, Educator, Author, Therapist, Congregational Systems Consultant
The Rev. Walter Martin Wangerin, Jr., Author, Parish Pastor, Professor, Educator, Radio Announcer
Thursday, August 12, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Click here to attend the Zoom.
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The next meeting of the Grand Canyon Synod Hunger Leaders Network is Tuesday, 8/24/2021, 6:00pm MST/PDT.
If you have any questions please contact Melanie Hobden, Pastor Karn Carroll or Pastor Jacqui Pagel.
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Rally in the Valley was an annual event that engaged seniors through speakers, discussion groups, fellowship, and worship. Their treasurer, Dennis Haugan, recently presented the Bishop a $6,842.42 check towards our Growing Generosity Appeal.
This amount represents the entire balance of the funds in their treasury, as their organization will no longer be active. Their planning team voted unanimously to give the funds to the Synod for the appeal designated toward LAMA with the focus of advocating on behalf of seniors.
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Join the discussion on the next Connections Call sponsored by Lutherans Restoring Creation, which will advocate for the reduction of greenhouse gases for the health of all. Tuesday, 8/17/2021, 5 pm MST/PDT.
Join them as they discuss the development of a Sample Memorial to go to Churchwide Assembly 2022 asking our ELCA Advocacy office to specifically advocate that government leaders and public servants prioritize a reduction of greenhouse gases by 50% no later than 2030. More info here.
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We share this article from Reuters: Global warming is dangerously close to spiralling out of control, a U.N. climate panel said in a landmark report Monday, warning the world is already certain to face further climate disruptions for decades, if not centuries, to come.
Humans are "unequivocally" to blame, the report from the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said. Rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions could limit some impacts, but others are now locked in. Read the full article.
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The Spirited Book Club discusses Kurt Struckmeyer's radical 'way' of Jesus in A Conspiracy of Love: Following Jesus in a Postmodern World. Thursday, 8/19/2021, 2 pm. Register at the bottom of our calendar listing.
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Jeff Musfeldt recently became the Lutheran representative on the BeConnected Faith Network Advisory Committee. Encouraging faith communities to support service members, veterans and their families is a major focus of the Arizona Coalition for Military Families (see www.arizonacoalition.org.) We thank Jeff for all of his service, both to country and our church.
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Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer will be installed as the fifth Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod on Saturday, 9/11/2021 at 2 pm MST/PDT Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA.
Your prayers and presence are requested at the livestream on this special site: spsbishopinstallation.com. Read their profile at Living Lutheran.
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Many bishops have had interesting and varied career paths to their current calls. But most of those paths don’t travel through Hollywood. But before entering ministry, she spent 18 years working in production for Warner Bros. Television.
Brenda Bos of Glendale, Calif., was elected June 5 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Southwest California Synod.
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