First, thank you so much to everyone who attended our 2024 Spring Regional Gatherings! Thank you to our three wonderful host congregations: Advent in Spokane Valley, Our Savior in Twin Falls, and First Lutheran in Ellensburg. Your hospitality was fabulous.

Thanks to synod staff Cathy Steiner and Lin Carlson and our volunteer registrar Diana Abken for tending to promotion and registration. Thanks to musicians and readers and to DEM Liv Larson Andrews for coordinating worship pieces. Thanks to Assistant to the Bishop Phil Misner for helping us learn from 2021 and think through many many details. Thanks to our guests from partner organizations and agencies who took time to travel and be present with us.

And thanks finally to our speaker Grace Pomroy who asked to be an adopted member of our synod. We hope that Grace’s teaching, stories, biblical interpretation, and questions have been fodder for continued conversations about what it means to be the church in your time and location.

Attendance

Spokane Valley: 160
Twin Falls: 80
Ellensburg: 120

Total: 360

By comparison, we had 250 voting members and guests in the Tri-cities for Synod Assembly in 2023.

Rooted in Place Offering: $3800

These funds will be used to assist congregations asked to be an internship site for a ministry candidate who is geographically restricted, someone who, for family or personal reasons, cannot pick up their life for a year to do an internship in a whole new setting. Watch the e-newsletter in November and December as we will lift up this special fundraiser again on #GivingTuesday. For now, thank you so much for your generosity!