After the Floods

When disaster strikes, Lutherans are quick to bring healing and hope. "After the Floods" is a captivating five-minute video about how members of the ELCA serve as beacons of hope to communities recovering from the 2008 floods and tornadoes in the Midwest.

Gifts to ELCA Disaster Response will help provide emergency aid and long-term help.

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Where Does Mission Support Money Go?

“God’s work. Our hands.” Watch this 10-minute video from the ELCA presiding bishop, which shows how God is at work through this church. Find out how mission support, generously offered by ELCA members, makes local and global ministries possible.

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What Does It Mean to Be Lutheran?

This is an important time to be Lutherans in the world, said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson to Lutheran pastors in Kenya. "We have gifts to bring to the Church catholic. To be evangelical, confessional, ecumenical and missional is what it means to be Lutheran," said Hanson, who is ELCA presiding bishop and president of the Lutheran World Federation. Hanson also visited a hospital, university, and orphanage in Tanzania.
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Congregation Receives $12,000 Grant

Mountain View Lutheran Church, Edgewood, Wash., an ELCA congregation, was one of six Christian churches awarded "Cultures of Call" grants from the Fund for Theological Education (FTE), Atlanta. Mountain View received $12,000 for its initiative, "Called by Name: Vocation and God's Sense of Call," which is comprised of a children, youth and family ministry; annual congregation retreats; and an educational center for pastors and lay leaders.
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