Stories about the ways in which the mission and ministries of the ELCA and its partner churches are lived out.
Every Wednesday evening, students share a meal and worship together at Agape House, the Lutheran-Episcopal campus ministry at San Diego State University. The meal is a long-standing tradition of fellowship,…
I drink coffee only on Thursdays. This is mainly because that’s the day I sit at a local coffee shop for a few hours with a little sign that says…
Nobuo Inoue’s home was fine after the first earthquake on April 14, 2016, in Kumamoto, Japan. However, the second, principal quake that hit during the early hours of April 16 made his house…
Helen Gallik Abelt moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1959 with her second husband and two foster daughters. Not long after the move, her husband left the family. With no nearby…
Renuka Shrestha recalled the moment when the earthquake hit her Nepali village: “I was reading a book. Suddenly everything was shaking and I was so afraid. I tried to escape,…
The time has come, James White believes, for Lutherans to engage in a new type of evangelism. As a professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the University of…
Dave Belcher served in the Army for 17 years. He was a platoon sergeant and received a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantry Badge, but he came home with a…
German. Norwegian. Danish. Swedish. In the early and mid 1800s, you didn’t need to speak English to remain abreast with the happenings of the Lutheran church. At that time, the…
Working near Jerusalem in the West Bank community of Beit Sahour, Marta Erling Spangler started to see the world through the eyes of the Palestinian Christians and Muslims around her….
Every day nearly 150 ELCA clergy are at work ministering to the women and men of the U.S. armed forces. “As chaplains we interact with our people in some powerful…
ELCA international initiative equips talented women for leadership.
Her leadership, and that of other women, lasts through generations.
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