Editor’s note: The ELCA has a long and meaningful history of ministry in rural areas. This story is part of a series highlighting innovative rural ministries in ELCA congregations and communities…
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oak Harbor, Ohio Elementary general music teacher Attending church with my mom and grandparents is one of my earliest memories. My grandmother would hold me…
As part of the church’s efforts toward reconciliation with Native Americans, an ELCA truth-seeking and truth-telling initiative has been organized around Lutheran involvement in Indian boarding schools in the United…
Minnesota Swahili Christian Congregation (housed at Holy Trinity Lutheran), Minneapolis Business financing I moved to Minnesota in July 1998 after graduating from Waldorf University, Forest City, Iowa (then the ELCA’s…
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