Pray that children and youth who suffer domestic abuse will experience the physical, emotional and spiritual care of concerned, skilled adults who intervene in their situations and help provide the safety, healing and trustworthy love for which they yearn.
Read MorePresiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton gives her weekly message during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreAllie Papke-Larson provides this update from the Shepherd of the Hills Youth Ministry in Flagstaff, which “has been discovering how to be a youth ministry in a time of COVID-19.”
“We have been gathering once a week as a middle school and high school group over Zoom, playing games, checking in with each other, and praying together. We began a youth community art project based on Micah 6:8, written letters to seniors living in lockdown, and are staying connected through sharing pictures and videos on a social media platform. While this time has been challenging, it has also allowed for connecting in new ways.”
Read MoreGive thanks for the work of the ELCA Domestic Mission unit, directors for evangelical mission, synod staff, coaches and consultants, and other partners assisting congregations as they renew themselves as communities of faith engaged in God’s mission ― locally and globally.
Read MoreWith many people’s travel plans on hold across the country, the hospitality industry has been left with millions of empty hotel rooms. Many are concerned that the spread of the corona virus poses an inherent danger to the homeless, who stay in cramped shelters.
Many immigrants who are seeking asylum or citizenship in the United States have been put in detention centers and are also in danger of contracting the corona virus, by simply being placed in close proximity to others who are detained. Large cities are finding creative ways to use these empty hotel rooms to house the homeless or those recovering from corona virus.
Read MoreI had always grown up going to church and believing in something bigger, but I wasn’t overly passionate about my faith. At the airport, waiting to leave for the 2018 Gathering, a group of us decided to go to Starbucks and it was that moment when I realized this was a group of people who I knew I would make life changing memories with. I knew I was there for a purpose.
Read MoreYou are invited to attend a free stewardship presentation by Evan Moilan, CFRE, entitled “Best Practices for Engaging Generosity in Uncertain Times” via Zoom on Monday, May 18, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. Please register in advance for this meeting. We have a large capacity for this meeting so please feel free to invite your stewardship committees, church councils, and anyone else interested.
Evan works with GSB Fundraising, and recently talked on one of the synod’s Zoom meetings with congregation presidents. His talk generated enough interest for a full seminar of best practices.
Read MoreAsk God to help us endure the risks and difficulties of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, doing good, working for justice and serving our neighbors in need.
Read MoreYesterday for #GivingTuesdayNow, LSSN set an ambitious goal: to raise $10,000, the cost of only one of our biweekly COVID-19 Emergency DigiMart Distributions, in a single day. Thanks to your generosity and love for LSSN, we not only met but exceeded this goal, raising $15,369.24 in total!
Read MoreI see the sacrifices you are all making: giving up birthday parties, giving up attending funerals, sacrificing your freedoms by staying inside, giving up certainties and plans you once had about your futures, regular schedules that help keep you sane, getting together with those you love.
We are sacrificing these things for our community, to keep each other and ourselves healthy. In a very real way, we are protecting our neighbors.
Read MoreThe news this month is pretty short, since we haven’t been able to meet. Our online art contest finished, and the winner did this knock-out mural. Congrats to @Guserblue of McAllen, Texas for this great piece.
Join us for weekly meetings on zoom. No agenda, just catching up with each other for the week, being there for each other.
Read MoreMany of us think of Easter as one day—a day of colorful clothes, full churches, and glorious music as we celebrate the Risen Christ. This year, we did not receive that glorious Sunday we expected.
As we swim through the Eastertide of this year, perhaps we can see we are being gifted with an Easter season rather than just one day, an Easter that continues to expand.
Read MorePray that we will be guided by the spirit, manner and example of Jesus to be humble and gracious in our faith, service and daily lives.
Read MoreAsk God to help us have faith in how God leads, comforts, protects, nourishes and loves us all the days of our life.
Read MoreIn this time of uncertainty, a fundamental truth gives us hope — that together, through Christ, we can do extraordinary things.
Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. Will you show your support with a gift today?
Read MoreELCA Worship is providing resources for home worship. If you don’t have access to a hymnal in your home, the following hymns are provided: Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun | Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies | O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright | All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night | My Soul Now Magnifies the Lord | Now Rest beneath Night’s Shadow | The Day You Gave Us, Lord, Has Ended | To You, before the Close of Day
Read MoreGive thanks for the service and witness of U.S.-based mission personnel and of young adults serving in the Young Adults in Global Mission program, who have been brought home from their work with global companions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pray for their physical and spiritual health and that they will continue to respond to God’s call to serve in our church, our congregations, related organizations and society.
Read MorePLTS PrayerSpace, a new venture by the Office of Seminary Relations, is an open invitation, weekly Zoom meeting to gather those who wish to pray virtually with others. Thursdays, 4:00 to 5:00 pm Pacific Time, through May 28, 2020.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/310283013285030/
Join Zoom Meeting: https://clu.zoom.us/j/813292266
Jesus is our Savior, guide and shepherd, whom we have faith in and trust with leading us through life in this world and to a new life ― life eternal ― that we could not have imagined or created on our own. Praise God!
Read MoreWhile you’re on the Internet so much, why not follow the ELCA on social media? Keep informed with church news, events, pictures and video across many platforms. Look for us at Facebook.com/Lutherans; @ELCA on Twitter; @ELCA on Instagram and YouTube.com/ELCA. We are church together! Engage your faith through these online communities of Lutherans.
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