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Seeds for the Parish (ISSN 0897-5663) is the resource newspaper of the ELCA.  Each issue contains articles about resources that can help congregations in their worship, service, and ministries.  Typical issues have stories on resources available from churchwide units and Augsburg Fortress for worship, youth ministries, Christian education, stewardship, evangelism, social ministries, and leadership. There is a regular column on resources that can be found on the World Wide Web.  Seeds for the Parish is published six times a year, bimonthly. It is distributed without charge to the professional staff and lay leaders of the congregations, synods and regions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.Have an idea for Seeds? Click here for a writer's guide, deadline schedule and submission information. For more information about Seeds for the Parish. please contact the editor Janice Rizzo, Note: Not all the resources and program ideas listed in Seeds for the Parish have received official ELCA review or endorsement.

Seeds for the Parish is a member of the Associated Church Press.

Copyright © 2008 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. All rights reserved. Permission is granted for ELCA congregations to reproduce excerpts from Seeds for the Parish provided that copies are for local use only and that each copy carries the following notice: “Reprinted from Seeds for the Parish.”