E-News, Event
Lin Carlson
Synod Assembly 2025

NWIM Synod will hold an ONLINE Synod Assembly this coming year, 2025. Saturday, May 3. Mark your calendars to save the date! Exact times TBA.

E-News, Event
Lin Carlson
Preparedness for Faith-based Organizations

A Zoom Event - December 2, 5:30-7-30pm Pacific, 6:30-8:30pm Mountain

Special Announcement, E-News
Lin Carlson
Compensation Guidelines for 2025

The linked 2025 compensation guidelines for clergy were approved by the Northwest Intermountain Synod Council at their September 2024 meeting

Event, E-News
Lin Carlson
ELCA Region 1 Discernment Event

Join us for a Zoom virtual discernment event.

E-News, Event
Lin Carlson
Byberg Preaching Conference

Registration closes December 15th, 2024. 

Processing the Pandemic for Ministry.

Drinking from a fire hose?

For a lot of us, the last two years have been one change after another. Before we’ve even gotten comfortable with one new way of life—from preaching to a computer screen to online worship—we’ve found ourselves having to figure out something else.

While there’s been an abundance of new learning taking place, very little (if any) time has been available for reflecting—or even being still. It’s been a hectic season, and if you feel like you’ve been drinking from a fire hose, you’re not the only one.

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Supporting to Your Leaders

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To God’s beloved people in the NWIM Synod,

In the synod office, we have been asked by many of you to provide guidance around when to suspend in-person worship due to increased cases of SARS-COVID19 cases in a community. While there are some such documents available from other denominational bodies (United Methodist Church, for example) after discussion as a staff we realized that our ability to draft such a document is limited—simply because of the polity of the ELCA. I cannot direct congregations to not meet in person. That is a decision that falls to the rostered leader(s) and council of a congregation. Adding to the complexity: the ministry contexts of our synod are so varied that what might indicate a need to suspend in-person worship in one congregation might not in another.

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Ecumenical Letter to Editor of Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Papers

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We read with great dismay that the Aryan Freedom Network, a white supremacist group, is having a gathering on March 12 at Hayden Lake and has said that part of their purpose is to identify "things we can do to make our communities a little better." That a poster for this event includes a swastika and the words "keep Idaho white" shows clearly that their vision for "a little better" is one that is in opposition to both the American ideals expressed in our Declaration of Independence and enshrined in our Constitution, and totally against the values of Christianity.

Preparing for Lent

We enter into the Lenten season in a few days. Are you ready? Have you made plans for these 40 days already? Or on Ash Wednesday does the imposition of ashes remind you to embark on this journey with setting some intentions? However you prepare and plan for Lent, this season offers you the opportunity for deepening your spiritual life in Christ.

Global Mission Newsletter | February

For two years, as the world has reeled from the effects of a deadly pandemic, we have seen the number of hungry people around the world rise, watched as food pantries and soup kitchens expanded to serve an ever-growing number of guests, and longed for the time when we “will hunger no more, and thirst no more … and God will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes” (Revelation 7:16).

Thank you for all you are doing in your congregation and community to continue God’s work and to share the grace and love of Christ. We invite you to continue your work by connecting your congregation to the church’s global work to end hunger and poverty during ELCA World Hunger’s 40 Days of Giving, which begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2.