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Being open to God’s vision can be something of an enigma for me. I don’t know about you, but I often start to dream, plan, pray about, and imagine how a certain thing might turn out.
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ELCA Global Mission shares their Global Links newsletter for March, 2023, featuring: A Milestone for Women Leaders in the Holy Land; news around the world, our global partners, and how to get involved.
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Demand Investments are now earning as high as 2.50% APY*. These Demand Investments allow you add and withdraw funds from your savings whenever you like. To open a new account, visit us at mif.elca.org or call 877-886-3522.
At the same time it’s helping you build your savings, your investment in the Mission Investment Fund will help fund loans to ELCA congregations and ministries so they can continue doing God’s work in the world. That’s two compelling reasons to connect with MIF.
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The March, 2023 version of the Women of the ELCA’s monthly newsletter Café is available, including: Feeling my feelings as spiritual practice; Blessed are those who grieve; monthly dinner; podcast; and more. View all posts at boldcafe.org.
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Under the theme Be Bold in Your Baptism, we gather at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Oro Valley, Friday and Saturday, June 9 – 10, 2023, for our annual synod assembly.
Registration is now open. Voting members can access $150 early bird registration through 4/17/2023. Visitors can register for $100, with ministry partner tables available for $100 as well.
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Padam had a tough early life, first exiled from his home country then living years in a refugee camp. He now is thriving through the personalized services offered by Mosaic at Home. Learn his story at Exiled From Home Country, Padam Now Thrives, which appeared first on Mosaic.
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The March, 2023, bimonthly e-newsletter for ELCA congregational and synodical leaders is here, featuring: updated tax guides, Rostered Ministers Gathering early registration, ELCA Federal Credit Union ministry card, unemployment exemptions for churches, and how to keep your building safe from wayward vehicles.
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World Water Day is observed each year on March 22 to promote the responsible use of water and access to safe water for everyone. This year, consider ways that you might observe World Water Day.
One of LAMA’s Policy Priorities for 2023 is Water: its scarcity, its quality, its sustainability. If you have information to share or an interest in discussing water resources, please contact Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona at director@lamaz.org.
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I can really sympathize with Samuel . He was called by God to anoint Saul as king over Israel, only Saul disobeyed God – and God decided to go another route. Reading 1 Samuel 15-16 over again, it doesn’t even seem like Samuel and Saul were good friends, and yet Samuel grieved that what was potentially going to be a good thing never panned out.
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The Ordination of Dan Potaznick will take place at 1pm EST, 10am MST/PDT, 11am MDT, on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church (411 Susquehanna Road, Ambler, Pennsylvania, 19002. Bishop Deborah K. Hutterer will preside and Rev. Timothy B. Johansen of Temple Lutheran Church in Havertown, Pennsylvania will preach. Click here to watch the livestream or archived video on YouTube.
Your prayers and presence are requested. Rostered ministers are invited to process, color of the day is red. Dan is our synod’s new Director of Generosity and Strategic Development.
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We thank the 74 active and 60 retired rostered ministers who completed their rostered minister report. 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.
It’s not too late to complete your required report. Access the report on our rostered minister report page.
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Members of all Grand Canyon Synod congregations and ministries, including active and retired leaders, are welcome to our online spring gatherings.
Our final gathering is the High Country Conference Spring Gathering: Saturday, March 25, 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM at Christ Lutheran Church in Sedona.
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Mountain View Lutheran Church has an opening for Office Supervisor. For a job description and more information, please visit mvlutheran.org/jobs.
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Lutherans ages 18 – 30-something are invited to a BBQ meet up on March 26, 2023, 12:30-2:30pm MST at the ASU Polytechnic Ministry House (7165 E Thistle Ave., Mesa, AZ 85212). Text 480-231-2575 to RSVP.
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A Binational Young Adult Gathering is taking place Saturday, 3/18/2023, 10am-4pm. More information and registration @ donorbox.org/events/419139. Meet at 10am at Carl’s Jr. (105 5th St., Douglas AZ 85607), to cross to Agua Prieta, Sonora.
Come learn about service, justice and faith on the U.S./Mexico borderlands with other young adults from the U.S. and Mexico.
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The daffodils in the courtyard at the Synod Office started poking through the ground this week. Seems a little early to me, but these beautiful green shoots are just one more reminder that this world is bigger than this moment. It’s bigger than the war in Ukraine, it’s bigger than hateful legislation, hungry people struggling to get out of poverty, and my own brokenness.
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The healing of the blind man in John chapter 9 is one of my favorite healing stories in the whole Bible. I love this story because in this story Jesus confronts and rejects the common belief that disabilities are somehow caused by sin.
I commend to you the book A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability by Kathy Black. Kathy Black is an ordained Methodist minister who has served as the chaplain at Gallaudet University and pastored two churches for deaf persons.
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During the summer of 2024, the ELCA Youth Gathering, MYLE, the tAble and Young Adult Gathering will center around the theme of “Created to Be” which comes from Psalm 139. To learn more about the 2024 Gathering, visit elca.org/Gathering and watch the video in this post.
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If you visit the Saturday-morning farmers market in Federal Way, Wash., you might see Kay (Kyong Yon) Mattingly smiling and dancing with her friends from Dasom Bi-Cultural Cooperation, a ministry of Light of Grace Lutheran Church. The ministry hosts a booth with a variety of Korean goods for sale, but the members also seek to bring joy to those around them – and create it for themselves.
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Keah Brown, a journalist, has filled this book with her essays. In each standalone essay, Ms. Brown addresses a particular issue of life as a black woman living with Cerebral Palsy in a mostly able-bodied white America. She discusses the depression that comes from internalizing the “idealized body” of the able-bodied world we live in.
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