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Autism is a disease that not only affects the individual, but the individual’s family. Carol Mueller (pictured with her 15-year-old grandson, Bob) writes this month in The Lutheran magazine about different families' struggles and how grandparents do what they can to help.
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In concert with the ELCA Fund for Leaders, the Mission Investment Fund has established the ELCA Mission Developer Scholarship Fund to support seminarians who demonstrate the gifts and passion for starting new congregations.
The first four students received full-tuition scholarships to ELCA seminaries.
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The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council elected the Rev. Martin Junge, 48, to a seven-year term as the eighth LWF General Secretary. The former president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile will be the first general secretary from Latin America. Junge succeeds the Rev. Ishmael Noko, who leaves office in October 2010.
More | Lutheran World Federation
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA and president of the Lutheran World Federation, has a new video reflection on daily bread."Give Us Today Our Daily Bread" is the theme for the Lutheran World Federation Eleventh Assembly, July 20-27, 2010, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Watch video | LWF Eleventh Assembly
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