Ensuring that children have access to education and educational support, though, is a difficult goal to reach, and the COVID-19 pandemic has created even more obstacles for communities in need.
In Romania, the Evangelical Parish in Sibu has been hard at work adapting to these new challenges.
Read MoreFrom our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and blessings in the New Year!
Read all the latest LSSN updates in their December 2020 newsletter.
Read MoreThis Christmas, we might find ourselves not at the inn but in the stable, sitting by the manger next to Mary. Waiting for her world, our world, to be changed, even to be reborn. Indeed, it’s time for new.
In Living Lutheran’s December issue, we are given the opportunity to ponder with Mary the time, coiled with tension, between “How can this be?” and “Nothing is impossible with God.” Click here to read the piece; the study guide is available here.
Read MoreThere is no more appropriate time for us to say Thank You and to express to you and yours every happiness in this beautiful season and throughout the coming year.
Read the full holiday newsletter from Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission (NELM).
Read MoreThroughout the Advent and Christmas season, we highlight submissions to the 2020 Generosity Film Festival.
Duane Gilson, with Spirit of Hope Lutheran Church in Mesa, Arizona, shares his story of generosity: accompanying Pete, a World War II veteran, on an honor flight. This video won the Best Time Honored Service Story award.
Read MoreWe hope that everyone in our Cal Lutheran community finds moments of hope and peace this season.
Visit our site to experience the beauty of our talented students performing their annual Christmas concert virtually.
Read MoreThis year has challenged all of us — some have adapted to new learning environments, some to new workspaces and others to new methods of worshiping and communicating.
May you and your loved ones feel the presence of God’s boundless love in your homes and communities in this season and always.
Read MoreMay the Everlasting Light shine in this strange season: in the dark streets, at the quiet tables, in the open desert, in our crowded valleys, in the hectic hospitals, in the discourse seeking order, in all the yearning places of need.
We thank you for the gift of you, and all you do in the Grand Canyon Synod. The peace of Christ to you and yours.
Read MoreRemember and give thanks for the people in your life who taught you the nativity story and recounted the promise God made to us and fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
Read MoreThe Rocky Mountain Synod is extending an invitation to join them in an Epiphany Weekend Zoomfest, Friday evening, January 8, through Sunday, January 10, 2021. Join via Zoom or Facebook live, and a Sunday worship service 9am MST, 10am PST. The detailed ZOOMfest program bulletin can be found here.
Read MoreAll Creation Sings provides six hymns and songs under the Christmas heading; the topical index offers additional suggestions. One brand new hymn is “Night Long-Awaited / Noche anunciada” by Félix Luna (text) and Ariel Ramírez (music).
Read MoreThis training includes 12 hours of group coaching time, one hour individual coaching at the time when you start in your interim context or at a time of your choosing, plus contextual work, reading and reflecting.
Begins Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Visit purposeful pastor.com for more info.
Read MoreThe Office of the Bishop will be closed on the upcoming Thursdays and Fridays: December 24 and 25, as well as December 31 and January 1st.
Read MoreWith prayerful sighs of relief and expressions of gratitude, give thanks for God’s covenant to grant humankind love, forgiveness, new life and redemption through the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, 12/23/2020, we will practice holding space together, similar to a support group or grief group. Jill Beverlin and Tammy Devine will facilitate. For more personal matters, you may request a breakout room with a coach for up to 15 minutes during the hour-long gathering, subject to availability.
The Weekly Online Gathering for ELCA Leaders continues every Wednesday, 1 pm Central, 12pm MST. Links to the meeting at elcacoaching.org as well as archives.
Read MoreWe give thanks for the work of Rev. Mark Holman, who for the last two years has served as the Bishop’s Associate for Mobility and Leadership. At the end of 2020, Pastor Holman will attempt retirement for the third time.
Read MoreOn December 27, 2020 the people of Desert Streams Lutheran Church in Surprise, Arizona, will gather for the last time as a congregation.
Please hold the people of Desert Streams and their interim pastor, Jose Valenzuela in your prayers.
Read MoreListen to devotional music available through Augsburg Fortress: “O Laughing Light;” “Nunc Dimittis;” “All Praise to Thee.”
Read MoreFind a peaceful place to pray, perhaps a table. You may wish to light a candle near where you pray and incorporate other symbols of Christmas.
Read MoreRemember in prayer the approximately 26 million refugees, immigrants and asylum-seekers around the world and at our borders, awaiting entry into safe, welcoming countries and communities so that they can rebuild their lives without threats of conflict, persecution, violence or economic crisis. Pray for their safety, that their spiritual, physical and emotional needs will be met, that they will find caring advocates, and that their faith and hope will be strengthened and sustained by siblings in Christ and our faith communities.
Read More
