I was delighted to see a blog press release from the ELCA’s News Service yesterday regarding our new book, They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration written by Stephen Bouman, Executive Director for the Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission unit of the ELCA and Ralston Deffenbaugh, President of Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (LIRS) with [...]

The Resource Center Directors in the ELCA spend incredible amounts of time and energy reviewing new resources so that they can assist congregational leaders in their quests for faith formation and worship resources to meet the needs of their particular contexts. So, when I receive two separate notes from two separate resource center [...]

Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22. More and more, congregations and other faith-based organizations are incorporating sermons, hymns, Bible study, and service projects that focus on the stewardship of the earth in conjunction with Earth Day.
If you are looking for resources to support these types of initiatives in your community [...]