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Mission & Ministry
50 years of fighting hunger
This year the ELCA has been celebrating how ELCA World Hunger came to be and the thousands of donors who have and continue to make its work possible. Since 1974,…
Mission & Ministry
The mutual benefits of giving
Editor’s note: This perspective by Sarah V. Hershberger of Grace Lutheran Church, Shamokin, Pa., is adapted from “Port Call,” the fall 2024 newsletter of Seafarers International House. Seafarers International House…
Faith in Action
Feeding the multitude
Trinidad, Colo., has always been a crossroads for travelers. It sits at the intersection of Interstate 25 and an Amtrak route running from Chicago to Los Angeles; the historic Santa…
Mission & Ministry
Giving hope in time of war
As war rages in the Holy Land and Ukraine, Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) continues to accompany the ELCA’s companions in their humanitarian response. With the humanitarian crisis deepening in the…
Faith in Action
Holding on
About five years ago, I was asked to help people at our small Lutheran church manage the steps to the altar rail for communion. There are only two steps, but…
Faith in Action
A century of community through faith
At the turn of the 20th century, life looked a lot different in San Juan, Texas. A strict divide existed between the area’s white residents and their Mexican American neighbors,…
Faith in Action
Lasting connections made at Youth Gathering
Hayden Gruenberg never expected that attending the ELCA Youth Gathering would give her a clearer sense of her career path. But after making connections there, she’s pursuing a vocation in…
Faith in Action
Partners in reentry and revival
Starr Edwards traveled a troubled road that led to incarceration. But aided by an Alexandria, Va.-based nonprofit and a neighboring ELCA congregation, she’s now on a path filled with possibility….
Faith in Action
Grants help children’s ministries “realize their dreams”
For a congregation in Wisconsin, a grant helped transform a school into a community center focused on children. In Colorado, seed money allowed a congregation to expand their weekly family…
Faith in Action
Serving our neighbors
Collecting. Preparing. Assembling. Packing. Donating. Signing. These are just a few words that describe how congregations served and loved their neighbors on “God’s work. Our hands” Sunday, the ELCA’s day…
Faith in Action
“This has allowed us to go back to church”
Sara Seifried and her husband were Sunday regulars at their church in St. Petersburg, Fla., but stopped attending for a reason many couples can likely relate to: After becoming parents,…
Faith in Action
Light and hope
What started as an Epiphany project became a light that is now shining across the country and into Ukraine. Project organizers like to think of it as a faith link….
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