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2026 Synod Assembly

Register now for Synod Assembly at First Lutheran Church – Kennewick, WA
Early Bird registration ends March 10 for $50 discount

The 2026 Synod Assembly will be an opportunity to worship, learn, connect, and commune with folks from across the NWIM Synod and beyond. We have a lineup of great workshops. We will welcome our Churchwide representative, Dr. Mary Strefuert, and Bp. Paul Erickson from the Greater Milwaukee Synod. The Greater Milwaukee Synod is our domestic companion Synod.

Disputatio on Artificial Intelligence

In a digital age that is always reforming, artificial intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of living in modernity. Given its impact, as well as overwhelming enthusiasm for and protest against, it becomes necessary to ask:

  1. How do we best live in the world with the reality of AI?

  2. How do we respond to it faithfully and theologically?

  3. How do we equip leaders to accompany people in the decisions they will face?