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The day after the 2024 presidential election, Bishop Eaton reflects on the many expressions of our church being woven together as strands of a large tapestry, even as individually people are experiencing joy or grief. She reminds us that regardless of who is elected president or to other leadership positions in our country, our call to be Christ in the world doesn't change. "As we're moving through these next years, no matter what happens and what befalls ... imagine all of us woven together and in Christ, and we will continue to serve the gospel and to serve the world."
The Holden Village Board of Directors seeks an Executive Director (or team of Executive Directors) to lead the Village for a term beginning September 1, 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.
This Giving Tuesday (Dec. 3, 2024) our synod will make one final push for Rooted in Place, our 2024 Regional Gathering Offering. Rooted in Place brings together several vital realities:
“If you had asked me my junior year of college if I had ever thought of being a Lutheran pastor, I would have said, ‘absolutely not.’” recalls Mariah Mills. Mariah attended an ELCA college but was deeply involved in an evangelical campus ministry. Later on in her junior year, though, her involvement with that ministry was disrupted.
You may have seen that a new film about German Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer will be coming to theaters Thanksgiving Weekend.
Here is what I suggest. If you want to see the film, go see it and understand that it is entertainment AND see it with some friends and have a discussion about the film afterwards.
A Zoom Event - December 2, 5:30-7-30pm Pacific, 6:30-8:30pm Mountain
The linked 2025 compensation guidelines for clergy were approved by the Northwest Intermountain Synod Council at their September 2024 meeting
Join Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing and Rev. Dr. Ben Stewart at the annual Recreation & Revelation (R & R) Conference February 9-14, 2025. R & R takes place every February at Winter Park, Colorado, and has a rare approach to continuing education.
This new series combines crucial leadership skills with powerful insights of the Enneagram, helping you better understand how who you are influences the way you approach work, ministry, relationships, and leadership.
We, the three Lutheran bishops of Washington State, join this anthem as we cast our ballots in this election. We urge voters to vote “No” on Initiative 2117, which attempts to repeal our state’s Climate Commitment Act.
Join us for a Zoom virtual discernment event.
Are you looking for stewardship resources to fuel your ministries and your imagination? This newsletter’s offerings are all about stories. Here are a few places to find guidance and support:
Registration closes December 15th, 2024.
Gifts to Lutheran Disaster Response equip us to respond to Hurricane Helene and other disasters, whenever and wherever they strike.
The FSO is responsible for all areas of fiscal administration for the six synods and their ministries.
This column will be a little unusual as I am mostly going to point to some other writing I have been doing. But first, October is Clergy Appreciation Month and so, you pastors and deacons who said “yes” to the call of public ministry, thank you!
Beginning September 3 through mid-November, the artwork of oblate Karla Neumann-Smiley will be featured in an exhibition titled, "Seismic Shifts," at the 1912 Center, 412 East 3rd Street, Moscow, Idaho.
I began my work and call as Assistant to the Bishop just over six years ago – August 2018. As I look back over those years, they are broken into three distinct chapters.
“Leadership Education aims to create lasting change in U.S. congregations by supporting Christian leaders and the institutions they serve. Leadership Education designs educational services, develops intellectual resources and facilitates networks of institutions that cultivate a coherent vision of Christian institutional leadership and form Christian leaders. Leadership Education is a non-degree-granting initiative of Duke Divinity School funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and based in Durham, NC.”
Interested applicants should submit a resume/vita and a cover letter stating their relationship to church camping ministry and why they are interested in pursuing this particular call at Christikon.
Monday through Friday, January 6-10, 2025
Grace Pomroy, our 2024 Regional Gathering speaker and an instructor at Luther Seminary, has a book available now for pre-order (published by Fortress Press).
I am filled with hope and energy and ideas after spending a day and half this past week at the inaugural National Tribal Housing Ecosystem Summit organized by Enterprise Community Partners.
“Stewardship in a Box” 2024 is dropping! “The (im)Possible Promise of Enough” is a new resource from our friends at ChurchAnew.org (remember “Lent in a Box”?) and has been updated for this year’s lectionary and focus. “Stewardship in a Box” is an affordable, customizable guide to an annual campaign that takes congregations and their leaders through conversations about faith and finances on Sunday mornings and throughout the week of any given stewardship push.
St. Catherine of Sienna said, “All the way to heaven is heaven.” Most of the way from Dar es Salaam to Ifakara is bumpy and awkward, punctuated with roadside checks along freeways and unpaved paths of varying quality. But even this section of our two-and-half-week pilgrimage to the Ulanga Kilombero Diocese was heavenly, because we saw the face of God everywhere we looked.
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One way we hope to live into being Synod together is gathering those who serve on councils or boards of ministries for a monthly check-in with each other.
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