Stories about the ways in which the mission and ministries of the ELCA and its partner churches are lived out.
On any given weekday you can visit Bethel Lutheran Church in Dorado, Puerto Rico, and find its gates open. Venture into its backyard and you’ll notice a series of classrooms,…
Lisandro Orlov explained the mission of Educación Popular En Salud (EPES, Popular Education for Health) by recounting the story of Jesus’ encounter with Bartimaeus, a blind man begging by the roadside…
Each season, Zulema Lopez sows and reaps crops in the village of San Luis, near Somoto in northern Nicaragua. But after years of prolonged drought, wells have run dry and…
When a church closes and sells its building, it doesn’t have to mean the end of its ministry. Many of these congregations have left a legacy by donating their buildings…
In any organization, archives play an important role. Although the ELCA is only a few decades old, its archives house more than two centuries’ worth of information from the denomination…
The words “college students” and “free food” often go together, but two ELCA colleges—Augsburg in Minneapolis and Augustana in Rock Island, Ill.—are putting a twist on the stereotype. Both campuses have…
At a time when Christian-Muslim relations can seem fraught, a West African organization supported through designated ELCA World Hunger funds and congregational offerings continues to work in harmony with people…
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Ark., was helping resettle its first five refugee families from Iraq, the Congo and El Salvador when the White House executive order banning refugees…
Jon B. Olson, pastor of Lutheran Campus Ministry at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Tia Mathre-Adams, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry for San Antonio area colleges and universities. Becca Seely, director…
As she was on her way to her first worship service of the morning, Jess Felici, a pastor of Mountain Lutheran Parish, received a phone call from a member saying…
Shishmaref, Alaska, has taken center stage as its residents fight to preserve their way of life as changes in their environment and landscape attributed to climate change pose threats. “The…
A comprehensive $198 million endeavor, “Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA” is now in its fourth year and already making a significant impact, both domestically and globally….
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