This week’s e-news features:
A COVID-19 Update from Bishop Kristen
Juneteenth: We Will Breathe by Joe Davis | ELCA Youth Gathering blog
8 Lakes Leg Aches - Virtual Bike Ride Event to Support LCSNW
And more!
Synod E-News · 6/9/2020
This week’s e-news features:
Bishop Kristen’s Message on white supremacy and the need for anti-racism work in our synod
ELCA Grants
Revision of Definitions and Guidelines for Discipline · virtual town halls
Job Opportunity: Interim Director of Music Ministry at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
And more!
Synod E-News · 5/29/2020
This week’s e-news features:
Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton’s June 7 Sermon Resources
Lugala Lutheran Hospital Appeal
PASSAGE - An ELCA Youth & Young Adults small groups ministry for recent high school graduates
LCS Northwest’s Online Fiesta! (event: May 30) to support the work of LCSNW’s Immigration Counseling & Advocacy Program.
And more!
Synod E-News · 5/16/2020
Guidelines for Resuming In-Person Worship
To the people of the Northwest Intermountain Synod,
Attached to this letter you will find a substantial document focused on how to reopen our congregations safely. We are grateful for Rev. Brad Munroe, Executive Presbyter of the Presbyteries of Grand Canyon and de Christo, for sharing with us the work his Presbyteries did in preparation for re-opening. We have taken that document and edited it for our contexts. We have also taken a checklist that is contained within the body of the document and sent it as a separate document to make it easier for you to find and use. I strongly encourage you to review the entire document, and to distribute it to your congregation members so that everyone knows the criteria that leadership is using to establish safe parameters around worship.
Synod E-News · 5/8/2020
Communion in Extreme Circumstances
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.