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Welcome to the ELCA Wittenberg Center website. Here you can explore the many study and learning opportunities sponsored or hosted by the Wittenberg Center. 
  • Interested in joining a study tour or one of our many other programs in 2009 or beyond? Click here to view upcoming programs. 
  • Interested in planning a travel program? Click here to view a considerations check list. 
  • Interested in planning a sabbatical in the "Land of Luther" (map)? , Click here.
  • Share in a "Wittenberg moment" -- a sermon preached at one of the town churches
  • Calling all Synods -- join your fellow Christians from your companion synod in exploring your roots and heritage together  during the Reformation Decade -- 2008 -2017 -- Why not set a date to meet in Wittenberg?

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 Thanksgiving in Wittenberg The Center is working with Lutheran Campus Ministry to invite students who will be abroad and "in the neighborhood" to come to Wittenberg from Friday, Nov. 28th thru Sunday, Nov. 30th.  We will provide overnight lodging in the Wittenberg Youth Hostel, the turkey dinner (on Saturday), a tour of Wittenberg and a program.  For details, Contact Center.

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Spring Break in Luther Land:  It is not too early to think about Spring Break 2009.  We welcomed student groups from six different US campuses.  We encourage campus pastors to contact the Wittenberg Center to consider a Spring travel program that includes, Brakin' in Wittenberg.  Click here for details. 

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 10th Anniversary Program -- April 15 -27-- Join Directors Steve and Jean Godsall-Myers who will lead this special program that will allow us to enjoy and celebrate the many spiritual and learning resources the Center has developed in its first 10 years.  Special guest, Professor Kathryn 'Kit' Kleinhans from Wartburg College, will share her insights and perspectives along the way. For information  Contact Center or click for registration materials.
 ■ 20 years after "Die Wende" -- the Fall of the Wall  --  In the Fall of 2009, many cities in Germany , especially in the former East Germany (including Wittenberg), will be remembering the events of the Fall of 1989 and the Peaceful Revolution that led to the collapse of the Communist governments in the East the opening up of borders and the coming down of walls.  The Center is ready to work with groups, especially university and college groups who might want to include a visit to important sites -- Leipzig, Berlin -- in a Wittenberg-based program focusing on the Fall of the Wall.  Please contact us.

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                    The Luther Decade -- 2008

                     - 2017  With special events

                    and a festival worship service

                    on September 21, 2008 that

                    featured LWF President

                    and ELCA Presiding Bishop

                    Mark Hanson as the preacher, the Luther Decade officially opened in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.  The day before, Luther 'arrived' again, across the Elbe River, as a 25-year old monk. 

   The weekend events were only the beginning -- in each of the coming years there will be special events lifting up a particular themes that will provide a chance for people throughout the world to consider the impact of the Reformation today.  It will be a chance for Lutherans, for our sisters and brothers of the Reformation and for all our fellow  Christians, to consider the place of faith and the place of people of faith in the world 500 years after Luther's entry into the pages of history.

 Click here to access the Luther Decade web site.
Download the July - September 2008 edition of the missionary newsletter, Miteinander here! [pdf file]

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 Online Sabbatical and Journey planner  Lots of information about the "Land of Luther", the "Friends of Luther" and the "Times of Luther".
 

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Read a sermon from Wittenberg
Read our Frequently Asked Questions
Read the current issue of Miteinander.  You may also read back issues.
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 Plan a travel program.
Tailor your own sabbatical
Grow in knowledge about Germany, the Reformation, roots of Lutheranism, expressions of our faith today

 

 Interact with people in Germany and from other parts of the world