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ELCA Fund for Leaders
Each year the Fund for Leaders provides approximately 40 full-tuition scholarships to future ELCA pastors and deacons who attend ELCA seminaries. In spring 2023, the Fund for Leaders will once again offer scholarships to seminary students — and we need your help to spread the word!
The application window for full-tuition scholarships will be open from Nov. 15, 2022, to Feb. 25, 2023.
E-News 11-7-2022
Thriving Leadership Formation New Cohort
For people in ministry in the Northwest Intermountain Synod of the ELCA AND ecumenical colleagues:
You desire to be grounded in your life, but are pulled in many directions.
You yearn for deep connection – to God, to others, to yourself – but are not sure where to start.
You are curious about spiritual practices – silence, deep listening, prayer – but are not very good at practicing them on your own.
Together, we will learn again to pay attention to our lives and our communities and rediscover God’s sustaining presence in our midst.
Continuing the work of Campus Ministry at PLU
PLU Campus Ministry is off and running for fall semester, reconnecting with continuing students and meeting new Lutes. There is good energy. Every new year and season brings its changes, and this fall we’ve made a few changes in Campus Ministry programming and the ways Campus Ministry is contributing to PLU’s mission and care for the spiritual development of students and community. It’s a time of ongoing reformation, ministry, and hopefully transformation, too
Synod Assembly Message from Pastor Phil Misner
The theme for the 2023 NWIM Synod Assembly is BEGA KWA BEGA. This phrase, which translated into English from Swahili, means “Shoulder to Shoulder,” comes to us from our companion synod, the Ulanga-Kilombero Diocese (UKD) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. It is a fitting theme for our 2023 Synod Assembly for at least two reasons: 1) this phrase was introduced to the NWIM Synod during our last in-person Assembly in 2019 by our guests from the UKD, Pastor Moses Nwaka and Pastor Eliud Payowela; and 2) It is a good descriptor of and addition to what it means to be synod. We are bega kwa bega—shoulder to shoulder— “on the way together.”