Event

Spiritual First Aid for Intergenerational Trauma

October 13, 2026
4-6pm PST, 5-7pm MST

Learn to describe intergenerational trauma and how patterns of stress, loss, family experience, and coping can affect physical, livelihood, emotional, social, and spiritual needs across generations. Then be able to apply Spiritual First Aid Triage to identify a person’s most pressing unmet Primary Need rather than assuming what matters most.

2027 ELCA National Youth Gathering

Why the 2027 ELCA National Youth Gathering

I am a huge fan of the ELCA Youth Gatherings. When I stood for the bishop’s election in our synod in 2023, I quoted Galatians 5:13-14 as a central verse for my life and ministry. Guess where I first really heard that verse—the 1991 Gathering in Dallas when the theme was “Called to Freedom.” I attended again in Atlanta.