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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. 
  • Colleges, universities -- consider a study program in Lutherstadt Wittenberg!
  • 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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 Study in Wittenberg:  A week, a J-term, a May term, an entire semester.  We invite professors, study abroad officers, universities to learn more about study opopportunities in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

Sign at the former Judenstrasse Girls' School that is being transformed into a Student Center ("Colleg Wittenberg")

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 Germany:  Land of Many Lessons  Join Bob and Barbara Grosch on this travel program that will draw on their experience as volunteers at the Wittenberg Center.  The program begins in Berlin on June 20 and ends in Munich on July 4.  Registration materials are available on line. You may contact the office for more information.

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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 October - December 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".
 

Above:  The ELCA    Wittenberg Center in the building of the Evangelical Academy

 

Read a sermon from Wittenberg
Read our Frequently Asked Questions
Read the current issue of Miteinander.  You may also read back issues.
Join a study tour

Plan a study abroad program.

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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