Stories of God’s people putting their faith into tangible action in their communities.
When I first heard the idea of dogs in nursing homes, I thought, ‘No way,’” said Ted Goins, who was a nursing home administrator before becoming president and CEO of…
When the toddler daughter of a friend was just learning to talk, she spent Halloween shouting, “Trick treat! Trick treat!” She was way ahead of her time, that youngster, for…
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I…
A stool is placed next to the lectern and an old-fashioned radio is set on top. A man wearing headphones pretends to turn on the radio and then speaks into…
Whether it be caroling with the church choir, baking Christmas cookies for neighbors or making a day of selecting the perfect blue spruce to chop down and decorate, Christmas traditions…
Daryl Hogbin admits his desk job is sedentary, he tends to be an introvert, and his fallback position on daunting tasks is that they are probably insurmountable. So it surely…
Pastors and congregations live in transition. Congregants come and congregants go. Pastors arrive and pastors leave. In some contexts this is more common than in others, and it’s worth noting that there is…
“We have the means to assist people … all we need is the will.”
A congregation makes Latino outreach an important ministry.
Sleeping on the hard ground was uncomfortable and their feet were cold, but youth from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Boonsboro, Md., are wasting no time in signing up again…
Click here to see all the photos from the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering. Photos by Chris Ocken. At a neighborhood park in Detroit, Callan Geier, 17, and David Philpot, 74,…
Christian parents and caregivers have the difficult and blessed task of raising disciples. When our children are baptized as infants, we profess our belief in their full and complete membership…
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