In her first trip to Madagascar, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton visits with teachers at a school for deaf students in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She also met with Rakota Endor Modeste, president of the Malagasy Lutheran Church. Eaton and ELCA leaders this fall learned more about the ministries of the Malagasy church, met with participants of the ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission program there, visited with women theologians of the Malagasy church and more.
I’m a Lutheran: David Rutlen
St. James Lutheran Church, Portland, Ore. Professor emeritus of medicine and retired head of General Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University; marathon runner I’m named after my grandfather, David Ruotsalainen,…