This Maundy Thursday, I invite you to reflect on how God has shown up in your own life. Who are the people who loved you into healing and wholeness? Who are those who welcomed you or showed you unconditional love? And who is God calling you to show up for?
Read MoreThe Office of the Bishop takes part in Holy Week worship, followed by a trip to Mexico City by Bishop Hutterer and Rev. Miguel Gomez-Acosta. We wish you a blessed Holy Week filled with reflection, renewal, and God's grace.
Read MoreThis week we celebrate the ordination anniversary of Rev. Lowell Nelson, Grand Canyon Synod Emissary and Encourager, who celebrates 12 years on April 10.
Read MoreOther than Apache, which is at a high level, all of our synod’s counties are at at low levels.
Note: our updates can be a week behind due to our news cycle overlapping with Thursday updates. View the latest CDC and NYTimes updates here.
Read MoreRepresentatives from Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada (LEAN) gathered in Carson City, along with Bishop Hutterer, who delivered the invocation in both the Senate and the Assembly. Nevada's legislature meets in odd-numbered years for 120 consecutive days beginning the first Monday in February. Find photos and video in this post.
Read MoreJoin Camp ALOMA this summer for one of our 7 weeks full of adventure and good times! Hurry - Early bird discount ends April 15th!!
Please call 928-778-1690 or email office@campaloma.com if you have any questions. or visit campaloma.com Register at app.campdoc.com/register/aloma
Read MoreELCA Advocacy is hosting three listening sessions regarding the upcoming Farm Bill. Congress is preparing to reauthorize the bill in 2023. Each reauthorization provides an opportunity to improve or expand programs that ensure access to fresh and healthy food while addressing root causes of hunger.
The Mountain Time Zone focus is Tuesday, 4/25/2023, 5pm MST/PDT, 6pm MDT. Register at bit.ly/ELCAfarmbilllisteningMountain.
Read MoreLutheran Disaster Response is supporting the Southeastern Synod to address the immediate needs of disaster survivors in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia through local congregations and partner organizations. The synod is also providing emotional and spiritual care to both survivors and responders.
Read MoreBlessings as we enter holy week! Many of you have journeyed with ELCA World Hunger through Lent as we have reflected on the Psalms and what meaning that vast collection of hymns, poems, laments and prayers might have for hunger ministry today. As the season comes to a close, thank you for being part of the 40 Days of Giving!
Read MoreHad it been up to me, Holy Week would have already ended – with Palm Sunday – the day we celebrated Jesus’ triumph over sin, death, and the devil.
And yet, here we are, edging closer and closer not to a triumphant victory over earthly powers, but to a violent execution and act so selfless and loving that not even the powers of hell could stand against it.
Read MoreWe want to extend our sincerest thanks and appreciation to everyone who took the time to complete and submit their annual reports to Bishop Hutterer this year. As of this writing, the Bishop has responded to all 140 reports, which is by far the most reports we have ever received.
Your reports are vital in helping the Office of the Bishop understand the current state of our ministry and the ways in which we can best serve our rostered ministers and congregations and communities.
Read MoreUnder the theme Be Bold in Your Baptism, we gather at Resurrection Lutheran Churchin 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.
Read MoreThis Tuesday in Holy Week, I invite you to consider the times God's resurrection life has surprised you, or how out of a grief experience God created something new.
Read MoreThe Spirited Book Club's April selection is Neighbor Love through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Time of Crisis by Jason A. Mahn. Click here for book details & to register. Thursday, 4/13/2023, 2 pm MST/PDT, 3pm MDT.
Neighbor Love through Fearful Days is a reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic, the accompanying economic collapse, a summer of climate chaos, and the pandemic of white supremacy, as well as on the calling to “serve thy neighbor” and work toward the common good.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2024, young people and their adult leaders will gather in New Orleans for a week of faith formation, learning, worship and fellowship under the theme “Created to Be.” Our theme deep dive video gives you a glimpse of how the theme was created and why we feel like it so perfectly connects to our host city, New Orleans. To learn more about the 2024 Gathering, visit elca.org/Gathering and watch the video in this post.
Read MoreWhat is this week all for? Many of us look at the weekly schedule and see… so many things, and a few worship services on top of them. It can sometimes seem like it’s a bit overkill to do these services.
Yet this is the week. THE week which celebrates God’s unrelenting love, Christ’s solemn unity with humanity and unspeakable suffering, and the Holy Spirit’s persistent gentleness, breathing life again.
Read MoreAs we prepare to enter into Palm/Passion Sunday, I invite you to reflect on the ways that this day encompasses a wide spectrum of human experience: from praise to denial, joy to fear, and palm waving to stone throwing.
Read MoreJesus did not have to suffer. He did not have to endure the mocking, the betrayal, the shame, and injustice of it all. He, though he was God, emptied himself and became obedient to the point of death. And the beauty of this reality about the God whom we worship is that this is the truth of love.
Read MoreStart reading your copy of US: The Resurrection of American Terror, and be ready to join Simon’s Project for discussions with Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler about his new book. Reading the book is encouraged, but not necessary.
Our first discussion is Tuesday, 4/4/2023, 10am MST/PDT, 11am MDT. Click here to join the Zoom meeting.
Read MoreOn March 26, 2023, Mount Olive Lutheran Church held a commemorative mortgage burning ceremony at all three of its worship services to celebrate the milestone accomplishment of paying off their building loan.
They share their history and how this came to be in this post.
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