Input for ELCA

The ELCA has created a task force to conduct a study that could shape the church in years ahead, and you can add your input. All feedback will be processed for presentation to the ELCA Church Council next April and then at the August 2011 Church-Wide Assembly.
The questions cover everything from why one attends a [...]

The Church That We Have Known Is Dead – by Bishop Kanouse

On the eve of the NT-NL Synod Assembly I am prepared to proclaim that the church as we have known it for so long is officially dead. I think the last signs of life in the body were observed some years ago, although many believe there are still signs of life in the corpse. Oh [...]

NT-NL Synod “Page One”

Fund for Leaders in Mission – Financial Support for Seminary Students
The Fund for Leaders in Mission is an endowed scholarship fund created by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to insure that faithful and promising men and women can accept the call to ministry and provide leadership for the ELCA in the 21st Century.
The NT-NL [...]

Dust in Sierra Leone

Dear Friends,
“To everything there is a season,” the writer from Ecclesiastes says, and Sierra Leone is currently in the season called “the dries.” We last saw rain here in Freetown sometime in November. Now, the lush green of gardens, farms, fields, and forests is giving way to dust-covered and dying vegetation in various shades of [...]

The Journey of Lent – NTNL Synod ‘Page One’ Perspective

THE JOURNEY OF LENT – From Ash Wednesday to Easter
We often talk about life as a “journey.” From its beginning, life is a continual movement through time and space. We make choices of direction; sometimes we feel as if we have fallen off the path. We are never completely sure where it is headed or [...]

Page One – Synod News

PAGE ONE- Public Witness
Our work through our Peace & Justice Team
1. Haitian Relief Efforts: Public, private and church-related agencies are scrambling to meet the desperate needs of the people devastated by the earthquake in Haiti. As always, Lutherans are on the front lines in times of disaster. Learn more about the work of ELCA International
2. [...]