Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Timothy Swanson, who celebrates 49 years on June 15.
Rev. Roy Guinn, who celebrates 69 years on June 15.
Rev. Dennis Morreim, who celebrates 53 years on June 15.
We thank Pastor Lars Hammar, with Lord of Grace Lutheran in Tucson, for being our official photographer at our assembly. We hope you enjoy this photo gallery.
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Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Charles Wilfong, who celebrates 58 years on June 14.
Rev. Dana Reardon, First Evangelical, Mesa, who celebrates 24 years on June 14.
Rev. Tom Shelly, who celebrates 41 years on June 14.
On the night of May 30, a series of storms, including tornadoes, swept through the Central Great Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. In Minnesota, heavily affected communities included Eagle Bend, Clarissa and Browerville, where over 100 buildings were damaged. In South Dakota, a tornado impacted the area around the city of Brandon, severely damaging Beaver Valley Lutheran Church in Valley Springs.
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More than three months since Russian troops invaded Ukraine, fighting continues to intensify as humanitarian conditions deteriorate. The United Nations’ OCHA Ukraine: Humanitarian Report estimates that 6.6 million people have fled the country and 8 million are displaced internally.
Read this situation report from Lutheran Disaster Response, including partner updates with Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (ELCH) and Lutheran World Federation.
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As part of the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, voting members adopted a resolution designating June 17 as a commemoration of the martyrdom of the Emanuel 9—the nine people shot and killed on June 17, 2015, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
Our relationship to the shooter, as well as two of the slain, reminds us of both our complicity and our calling.
The resources at elca.org/emanuelnine are provided to help synods and congregations mark this commemoration.
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The Rev. Daniel G. Beaudoin, Findlay, Ohio, was reelected June 3 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Northwestern Ohio Synod of the ELCA.
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The Rev. Scott Alan Johnson, Fremont, Neb., was elected June 4 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Nebraska Synod of the ELCA.
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Enjoy this super-cut of our 2022 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly, which is all of our various Facebook livestreams in one video, with all the breaks and pauses removed.
A special thanks to Rob Mills, the audio/video technician with our host church, Love of Christ Lutheran in Mesa, who took the time to compile this video and also filmed and livestreamed our assembly.
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Today we celebrate the ordination anniversary of Rev. Harold Aasland, who celebrates 68 years on June 13.
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Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Miguel Rodriguez, La Sagrada Familia, Phoenix, who celebrates 18 years on June 11.
Rev. Carl Jensen, who celebrates 50 years on June 11.
Rev. James Slater, who celebrates 44 years on June 11.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Miguel Rodriguez, La Sagrada Familia, Phoenix, who celebrates 18 years on June 11.
Rev. Carl Jensen, who celebrates 50 years on June 11.
Rev. James Slater, who celebrates 44 years on June 11.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Harold Peterson, who celebrates 66 years on June 10.
Rev. Luther Tolo, who celebrates 60 years on June 10.
Rev. Lester Hoffmann, who celebrates 66 years on June 10.
Rev. Ronald Rude, who celebrates 43 years on June 10.
Rev. Frank Nausin, who celebrates 48 years on June 10.
Rev. Thomas Rogers, who celebrates 43 years on June 10.
Rev. John Elverum, who celebrates 60 years on June 10.
With great joy, we celebrate our 2022 Assembly!
We also share photos from the historic day for Gloria Christi Federated Church, the Grand Canyon Synod-Presbyterian first federated church.
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The nation’s hot spots have now reached our synod.
According to the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Levels, Apache, Clark, and Navajo are at high levels.
Medium levels counties are now: Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Greenlee, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, and Washington.
Low level counties remain in Graham, La Paz, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai,and Yuma.
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Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Don Lorfing, Good Samaritan, Las Vegas, who celebrates 26 years on June 9.
Rev. Charles Paulson, who celebrates 59 years on June 9.
Rev. John Serkland, who celebrates 59 years on June 9.
Rev. Philip Gustafson, Shepherd of the Desert, Sun City, who celebrates 43 years on June 9.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Kenneth Truckenbrod, who celebrates 64 years on June 8.
Rev. Donald Liles, who celebrates 36 years on June 8.
Rev. Wallace Cole, who celebrates 64 years on June 8.
Rev. Bennett Henrikson, who celebrates 53 years on June 8.
Rev. Melinda Gapen, who celebrates 8 years on June 8.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Adam Barnhart, Shepherd of the Hills, Flagstaff, who celebrates 13 years on June 7.
Rev. Sharon Bowen-Weiszmann, who celebrates 14 years on June 7.
Rev. Tim Eighmy, Community, Bullhead City, who celebrates 30 years on June 7.
Rev. John Lundering, who celebrates 63 years on June 7.
Rev. David Miller, who celebrates 52 years on June 7.
Rev. Donald Legacie, who celebrates 35 years on June 7.
Today we celebrate these ordination anniversaries:
Rev. Arlyn Saathoff, who celebrates 57 years on June 6.
Rev. Vern Barlow, who celebrates 57 years on June 6.