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Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity):

Join DEM Liv Larson for five weeks of discussion. We will meet on Wednesday evenings via zoom, 6:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Mountain. Beginning Wednesday October 21 and continuing through November 25.

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ELCA World Hunger Daily Bread Grants

You may submit a request for a Daily Bread Grant beginning October 1st. Feeding Ministry funding requests will be accepted through October 21st at midnight central time and they are for $500.

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Micro-Grants process is closed

the Micro-Grant process is now closed.

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Byberg Preaching Workshop

Register now for the Byberg Preaching Workshop in Seaside, Oregon.
January 25-27, 2027

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ELCA Youth Gathering Registration

Registration Workbook: Have you downloaded our Registration Workbook yet? This resource walks you through the registration process, required forms and all the policies surrounding registration

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Spiritual First Aid for Intergenerational Trauma

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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.

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One Vine, Many Branches

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I find myself returning to Jesus’ I Am statement that he is the vine and we are the branches. Most often I think of all of us followers of Jesus and the many ministry sites as the branches, but during the fall meeting season the metaphor is stretched to include our NWIM Synod Council and the Conference of Bishops and the work each of those bodies does—growing out of our relationship with Jesus Christ.