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...
ELCA Women Unveil Triennial Theme, 'Live God's Justice'
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Within a setting of worship and reflection, members of the executive staff of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), presented programs and resources on the organization's theme for the next three years. The theme "Live God's Justice" -- based on the Bible verse...
ELCA Women Are like a Kaleidoscope, Says President Bernahl
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Sharroll Bernahl, Fort Morgan, Colo., president of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), compared the church's women's organization to a kaleidoscope, in her final report as president. The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the ELCA is meeting July 8-11 here at the...
ELCA Women Elect New President
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) Linda M. Chinnia, a member of Holy Comforter Lutheran Church, Baltimore, was elected to a three-year term as president of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) July 8 by delegates attending the organization's convention here. The Fourth Triennial Convention of Women of the...
ELCA Women of Color Gathering Ends with Worship (Corrected margins)
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The 1999 Women of Color Gathering of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) came to a close with worship here July 7 at the Marriott Pavilion Downtown. About 400 African American, American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Latina, Middle Eastern and Arab,...
ELCA Women of Color Gathering Ends with Worship
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- The 1999 Women of Color Gathering of the = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) came to a close with worship = here July 7 at the Marriott Pavilion Downtown. About 400 African American, American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian = and Pacific Islanders, Latina, Middle...
ELCA Women Open Convention with Worship, Justice Theme
ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- Christians cannot proclaim God's peace if they fail to seek justice for all people and live "God's justice," said Mercy Oduyoye, a Ghanian theologian who delivered the sermon at the opening worship at the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) convention. The Fourth...
ELCA Women of Color Gather "For Such a Time as This"
ELCA WOMEN OF COLOR GATHER "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS" ST. LOUIS (ELCA) -- More than 400 African American, American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Latina, Middle Eastern and = Arab, and European American women gathered for the 1999 Women of Color Gathering of = the...
ELCA Bishop Will Sign Lutheran-Roman Catholic "Joint Declaration"
BRATISLAVA, Slovak Republic (ELCA) -- The Rev. H. George Anderson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and a vice president for Lutheran World Federation (LWF), will be one of the signers of the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" on behalf of LWF said Bishop...
John Houck, Sr., Former Lutheran Council and ALC Leader, Dies
CHICAGO (ELCA) The Rev. John R. Houck, Sr., 76, a retired pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and longtime leader in the Lutheran church, died June 28 in Chautauqua, N.Y. He once served as general secretary of the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. and was executive director...
ELCA Helps Rebuild Central America after Hurricane Mitch
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) sent $62,000 to Iglesia Luterana Fe y Esperanza de Nicaragua (Lutheran Church of Faith and Hope in Nicaragua) and $20,000 to Iglesia Luterana Costarricense (Lutheran Church in Costa Rica) June 16 for humanitarian assistance and the construction of homes, schools...
