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First-ever Northeast Valley Consortium collaboration for “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday
First-ever Northeast Valley Consortium collaboration for “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday

Our Northeast Valley Consortium chose foster children as the focus of service projects for “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday, 9/11/2022. In this post, the consortium shares photos and the story of their work for the non-profit Arizona Helping Hands.

“Together we packed 440 personal hygiene kits for Arizona Helping Hands. All five churches — New Journey Lutheran (Fountain Hills), Christ the Lord Lutheran (Carefree), Living Water Lutheran (Scottsdale), New Covenant Lutheran (Scottsdale), and Ascension Lutheran (Paradise Valley) — collaborated to support Arizona’s leading provider of necessities to young children, teens, and infants who are making transitions to foster care or among foster care placements.”

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardNortheast Valley Conference, Northeast Valley Consoritum, New Journey Fountain Hills, Christ the Lord Carefree, Living Water Scottsdale, New Covenant Scottsdale, Ascension Paradise ValleyComment
Organ Concert featuring Dan Miller at Our Saviour's Lutheran, Phoenix
Organ Concert featuring Dan Miller at Our Saviour's Lutheran, Phoenix

Our Saviour's Lutheran (1212 E Glendale, Phoenix), celebrates their new organ with a concert featuring Dan Miller on Friday, 10/20/2022 at 7pm. There is no charge for this joyous event.

Come and experience a newly installed Rodgers hybrid organ incorporating the pipework from a previous 1969 13 rank Tellers organ.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardOur Saviour's Phoenix, Capital Conference Comments
Legacies to celebrate: ELCA member’s book honors Baseball Hall of Famer father
Legacies to celebrate: ELCA member’s book honors Baseball Hall of Famer father

Across 18 years in the Negro Leagues, Norman Thomas “Turkey” Stearnes parlayed power and speed into enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

But his daughter Rosilyn Stearnes-Brown, the choir director and organist of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in Warren, Mich., is just as impressed by what her father achieved through force of will as an older-than-average schoolboy.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardLiving LutheranComment
Installation of Rev. Jonathan Linman at Faith Lutheran, Phoenix
Installation of Rev. Jonathan Linman at Faith Lutheran, Phoenix

Pastor Jonathan Linman will be installed at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church (801 East Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ 85014) on Wednesday, 10/5/2022 at 6 pm with a reception following. Bishop Deborah Hutterer will preach.

Rostered ministers are invited to vest and be part of a procession. The color will be white for saints as we also commemorate Francis of Assisi on this day. Rostered ministers can send RSVPs to worship@faithalive.com for further instruction around arrival time and where to meet.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardOrdinations and Installations, Faith Phoenix, Capital ConferenceComment
The Holy and the Hybrid, by Ryan Panzer
The Holy and the Hybrid, by Ryan Panzer

After nearly two years of research and writing, Ryan Panzer is excited to share that "The Holy and the Hybrid" is available now to readers. Download the first chapters of The Holy and the Hybrid from Luther Seminary, or buy now wherever books are sold!

You can also listen to a podcast with Ryan Dunn, host of Pastoring in the Digital Parish. In this conversation, they talk about the cultural changes affecting ministry in a digital age.

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Grand Canyon Synod, News, Leader ResourcesBrian FlatgardRyan PanzerComment
ELCA Worship News: September, 2022
ELCA Worship News: September, 2022

ELCA Worship shares their September, 2022 newsletter, including:

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ELCA, News, Leader ResourcesBrian FlatgardELCA WorshipComment
Lutheran Social Services Nevada September, 2022 update
Lutheran Social Services Nevada September, 2022 update

We share the September, 2022 update from Lutheran Social Services Nevada (LSSN), featuring: the importance of meaningful relationships to fight social isolation and despair; a news feature including LSSN from CBS News Now; updates on their back to school drive (823 children served, 265 backpacks); and their open air market, serving 648 people from 204 households.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardLutheran Social Services of Nevada, Colorado River ConferenceComment
Lutherans Restoring Creation: September, 2022 Good Green News
Lutherans Restoring Creation: September, 2022 Good Green News

Lutherans Restoring Creation shares their September, 2022 Good Green News, which contains follows up on the Churchwide Assembly vote to take dedicated action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, promising the infrastructure to help us all work for a Just Transition to less harmful energy production and consumption.

View the newsletter here, as well as stories and resources that are shared in their variety of events and local ministries.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardLutherans Restoring Creation, Climate ChangeComment
ELCA Coaching presents Dylan Marron: Empathy is not endorsement
ELCA Coaching presents Dylan Marron: Empathy is not endorsement

Join ELCA Coaching every Wednesday at 11am MST/PDT, noon MDT, as we practice Courageous Leadership. Log in info is on the ELCA Coaching website.

Join us on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, as we hear from digital creator Dylan Marron, who has racked up millions of views for various projects, but he's found that the flip side of success online is internet hate. Over time, he's developed an unexpected coping mechanism: calling the people who leave him insensitive comments and asking a simple question: "Why did you write that?"

In a thoughtful talk about how we interact with others, Marron will explain how sometimes the most subversive thing you can do is actually speak with people you disagree with, not simply at them.

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ELCA, News, Leader ResourcesBrian FlatgardCoaching, ELCA CoachingComment
Spirited Book Club: Baptized in Tear Gas
Spirited Book Club: Baptized in Tear Gas

The Spirited Book Club welcomes author Elle Dowd to discuss her memoir, Baptized in Tear Gas. The online club is free, register here.

In Baptized in Tear Gas, pastor and activist Elle Dowd tells the gripping story of her transformation into an Assata Shakur-reading, courthouse-occupying abolitionist with an arrest record, hungry for the revolution.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardSpirited Book Club, Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center, Racial JusticeComment
Planning Your Legacy Webinar
Planning Your Legacy Webinar

The ELCA Foundations shares a webinar on planning your legacy, on Wednesday, 10/19/2022, 2pm MST/PDT, 3pm MDT. Register here.

The current economic landscape may influence your estate planning and charitable giving. This session will highlight a few key details of the current economic climate, give an overview of what you need for a solid estate plan, learn how you can leave a legacy to support your ELCA-related ministries and save on taxes.

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Grand Canyon Synod, News, Leader ResourcesBrian FlatgardELCA FoundationComment
2022 Fund for Leaders Golf Classic registration is now open
2022 Fund for Leaders Golf Classic registration is now open

The 2022 Fund for Leaders Golf Classic at the Arrowhead Golf Course in Glendale is Monday, November 14, 2022, beginning at 7 am.

Friends of golfers and the fund can also come out and enjoy the lunch program. Check out this registration form for more info.

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News, Grand Canyon SynodBrian FlatgardCandidacy, Seminaries, ELCA Fund for Leaders, Fund for Leaders Golf Classic, 2021 Fund for Leaders Golf Classic, 2022 Fund for Leaders Golf ClassicComment
Excellence in Leadership registration deadline is 9/25/2022
Excellence in Leadership registration deadline is 9/25/2022

“It’s not easy to be the church these days.” In response to this truth and the desire to raise up courageous, resilient, and faithful leaders, the Rocky Mountain Synod, ELCA offers Excellence in Leadership: an 18-month investment, with classes meeting 1-2 times per month, which will provide tools and resources to last a lifetime. Click here to get more info and register.

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Grand Canyon Synod, NewsBrian FlatgardExcellence in Leadership, Region 2, Rocky Mountain SynodComment