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Lin Carlson
Not-Your-Average Boundaries Training

LeaderWise’s online boundaries training workshop is lively and interactive, full of reflection and conversation. Attendees have given us feedback that our boundaries training was a great experience, AND caused them to re-evaluate some of their own practices.

E-News, Educational, Special Announcement
Lin Carlson
NWIM Synod and Faith+Lead

The Northwest Intermountain Synod and Luther Seminary's Faith+Lead are joining together to provide our entire synod with free access to theological resources and training designed to equip disciples and leaders for today's ministry challenges.

Event, E-News
Lin Carlson
2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly

The ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the primary decision-making body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is a process of communal spiritual discernment. When the ELCA Churchwide Assembly convenes, its voting members meet with confidence in God’s grace around word and water, wine and bread, to carry on their work on behalf of the entire church.

E-News, Event
Lin Carlson
College for Congregational Development

A 2-year program that focuses on (1) creating faithful, healthy & effective communities of faith, regardless of size, condition, or location (2) understanding & developing the congregation’s internal organizational life and leadership (3) the congregation’s relationship with the people and world outside of itself: potential visitors, the neighborhood, the broader world/culture (4) lay and clergy teams

E-News, Employment, Event
Lin Carlson
Volunteer & Register at Outdoor Ministries

You can still volunteer and register for outdoor ministries: Holden Village, Luther Heights, and Lutherhaven

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Communion in Extreme Circumstances

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To the People of God in Northwest Intermountain Synod,

There are those who like to say that we are living in “unprecedented” times. They certainly feel unprecedented. However, for anyone with a knowledge of history there is nothing “unprecedented” about the time of pandemic due to COVID-19. The scale is, perhaps, larger than epidemics that have come before. But perhaps it is not. Perhaps it is our increased global connectedness through technology that has given us the sense of this being an unprecedented pandemic event—because we are seeing this virus unfold in real-time, not simply receiving reports of devastation months or years after the fact.

NWIM Synod E-News · 3/27/2020

Featured NEWS: How COVID-19 is Affecting UKD

Dear Northwest Intermountain Synod,

I send you greetings on behalf of our sisters and brothers in the Ulanga-Kilombero Diocese. Our companions have been watching the news and hear how seriously our area has been affected by COVID-19. Both Pr Moses and Pr Eliud have been in contact regularly and wish to express their concern. Bishop Mtenji also sends his prayers. Our partners in Tanzania have kept us all in daily prayer over the past few weeks.

Unfortunately, on March 18 this virus hit Tanzania as well.

NWIM Synod E-News · 3/20/2020

Featured News: Building Use & Insurance in the time of COVID-19

I know that many of our congregations host recovery groups in their buildings and are conflicted over whether or not to close the building entirely, given the fact that isolation and stress are some of the key factors in an individual breaking their sobriety.

Please check with your insurance carriers if you choose to continue to allow recovery groups to use your buildings. There could be insurance penalties if you decide to do so.