By working together, ELCA members are sustaining farming and ranching communities in drought-stricken Texas. | more »
October 2011 Archives
A steel cross, made from a beam from one of the towers at the World Trade Center in New York City, was the centerpiece of a Sept. 11 worship service. | more »
With laughter and tears is how Laura Strietelmeier's seminary internship at Salem Lutheran Church, Toledo, Ohio, ended. | more »
Cristina Kinz has learned that God is “suffering, living, dancing, hoping, crying and walking with and among us in each moment of our lives."
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Meeting American Jeanne Mueller in Chuzhou, China, eventually helped Nicole (Xiao) Zhang decide to be baptized. | more »
In a neighborhood some call “blighted,” an ELCA congregation sees rich soil and opportunity to plant the seeds for change. | more »
Lighting prayer candles in a bowl of sand becomes a popular part of a traditional Halloween neighborhood party. | more »
Using a studio run by James Kasperson, Deena Shupe made 35 sets of communion ware for use at the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. | more »
In between fishing and working ivory, Alook Savetilik studied reports for the 2011 Churchwide Assembly that would help chart the future of this church.
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