ELCA Women Hear the State of the ELCA
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) Dr. Addie J. Butler, vice president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), highlighted seven churchwide activities in her speech at the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the ELCA. The convention met here July 8-11 at the America's Center. The organization's three-year theme, "Live God's...
ELCA Women must Gather, Grow and Go, Says Executive Director
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- "We are women who gather and grow and go out to proclaim God's peace and live God's justice," Catherine I. H. Braasch, executive director of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) told 4,000 participants at the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the...
ELCA Women Hear Plea to Stop Sex Industry
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) "This is what's happening in America, you can't get away from it," Heidi Somerset told participants at the Fourth Triennial Convention of the Women of the ELCA. In her workshop titled "It's NOT Pretty Woman," Somerset discussed the realities of prostitution, how it damages women and ways...
ELCA Women Attend Wide Range of Workshops
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Participants at the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) convention had opportunities to attend more than 180 workshops on a variety of topics. The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the ELCA is meeting here July 8-11 at the America's Center. The organization's...
ELCA Women Receive Greetings from International Guests
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) "With your commitment toward acting out your faith, you have infused in people like me a load of strength and hope and a renewed commitment," said Priscilla Singh, secretary for women in church and society, Lutheran World Federation, Geneva Switzerland. She addressed 4,000 participants of Women of...
ELCA Women Elect Executive Board
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected 17 women July 10 to serve three-year terms on its executive board. Executive board members and four officers work to carry out the ministries determined by triennial conventions of the organization. The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women...
ELCA Women Adopt Budget in Attempt to 'Live God's Justice'
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Delegates of the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) approved a $4,722,743 budget for the organization's fiscal year 2000. The Women of the ELCA's convention is meeting here July 8-11 at the America's Center. The organization's three-year theme, "Live...
ELCA Women Kept the Faith, Says Francis Hesselbein
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- "Ten years from now when they write your history, may they write of you, the women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, that the future called and they responded. They kept the faith," Francis Hesselbein, chair of the board of governors for the Peter F....
ELCA Women Receive Greeting from ELCA Women of Color
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) received a special greeting from those who attended the Women of Color Gathering held here July 5-7 at the Marriott Pavilion Downtown. The greeting was delivered by Inez Torres Davis, director of...
ELCA Women Are Children of God, Says Youth Representative
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- "We are all children of a just and loving father," Mary Elizabeth Pfeiffer, 20, told 4,000 participants of the Fourth Triennial Convention of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Pfeiffer, a board member of the ELCA Lutheran Youth Organization, brought greetings on...
ELCA Women Address Health, Racism, Ecumenism, Spiritual Growth
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Delegates of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) dealt with resolutions received from six of the church's 64 synod women's organizations. Topics included women's health issues, anti-racism training, closer relations with women's organizations of other Christian denominations and spiritual growth. The Fourth Triennial...
ELCA Women Support Decade on Nonviolence
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The executive board for Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) introduced a resolution on nonviolence and children which its Fourth Triennial Convention adopted. The women's organization joins its efforts in the ELCA with an international appeal of 20 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. The...
ELCA Women Endorse 'Positive Environment' for Children
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The executive board for Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) introduced several resolutions which the organization's Fourth Triennial Convention adopted. Topics included compensation of child-care professionals and the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. The Women of the ELCA convention is...
ELCA Women must Not 'Walk by on the Other Side,' Says Simon
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) One in five children in the United States live in poverty, Paul Simon, former U.S. senator, Ill., told 4,000 participants of the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA} July 9. Simon challenged listeners to act for justice on behalf of...
ELCA Women Receive Greetings from ELCA Men and Others
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- "We believe that -- when Christian women and men work together, shoulder to shoulder -- our families, our communities and our congregations benefit," Charlie Schwartz, president for Lutheran Men in Mission (LMM), told 4,000 participants of the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran...
ELCA Women and International Women Engage in Bible Study
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Women from Brazil, Burma, Sri Lanka and Tanzania led 4,000 participants through Bible study at the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) July 9. The convention is meeting here July 8-11 at the America's Center. The organization's three-year theme,...
ELCA Women Retain Ethnic Events
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) defeated a resolution calling on the organization "to abandon labels designating persons from ethnic and national cultural backgrounds." The decision followed debate including the pros and cons of holding a Women of...
ELCA Women Complete Leadership Team
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) completed its leadership team for the next three years by electing a vice president, secretary and treasurer July 9. The previous day, delegates elected Linda M. Chinnia, Baltimore, to a three-year term as president. The Fourth Triennial...
ELCA Women Do Make a Difference, Says Myrlie Evers-Williams
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Your organization says that women do make a difference, Myrlie Evers-Williams, past chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told 4,000 participants of the Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The convention is meeting...
ELCA Women Support Jubilee 2000/USA Campaign
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- A biblical concept of forgiving debts every 50 years, in the "year of jubilee," is the basis of a bill now before U.S. Congress to promote international debt relief for the world's poorest nations by the end of 2000. Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...
