Action and Advocacy: Mobilizing Women
Resources and programs for advocacy, action, support, and stewardship
Engage in action, support one another in our callings, and promote healing and wholeness
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Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls, our health initiative, engages all women and girls of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in making and fostering spiritually, physically, and emotionally healthy choices. We also support the HEART for Women act.
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Stewardship helps us exercise our faith and trust in God. We give what God has first given us: our time, our talents, and our possessions. We give because it is part of God's plan and because it is essential to our partnership with God in accomplishing God's mission.
Grants help support organizations and local ministries that make a positive impact on the health of women and girls. Since 1988, Women of the ELCA has awarded more $3 million.
Scholarships are awarded annually for women in ministry, both lay and ordained
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promote healing
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Cross-cultural programming: Take part in this fall's immersion experience at the Chippewa Cree Indian Reservation, Rocky Boy, Montana, September 9-13, 2009. Awaken your mind, body, and spirit.
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| take action through advocacy |
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Commercial sexual exploitation affects all of us and our youth. Discover ways to take action.
Speak out on behalf of children and families by taking part in The National Observance of Children's Sabbaths, an intergenerational and interfaith event that unites thousands of religious congregations and organizations.
Observing Rachel's Day is a wonderful way to build community and relationships by connecting adults (who may or may not be parents or grandparents) with children at risk. It is usually observed by Women of the ELCA on the first Sunday in May but can be observed any time of year. |
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take action in partnership
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Lutheran World Relief projects, like quilts, health kits, and fair trade coffee and chocolate are some ways that we can make a difference.
Women of the ELCA and the Women's Funding Network are working with the Good Deed Foundation to recycle old cell phones. Rather then send them to a landfill, where they leak toxins into the environment, recycle them in a way that raises money to help create lasting solutions for poverty and climate change. |
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