Lutheran Agency Wins Drucker Award
LUTHERAN AGENCY WINS DRUCKER AWARD Lutheran Social Services of Illinois has won the sixth annual Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The $25,000 award honors LSSI's Second Family Program, which combines the agency's child welfare and HIV-AIDS services. "Through Second Family, HIV-infected parents are linked with AIDS services in...
ELCA Study on Funding Theological Education
FUNDING ELCA THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION One of the last elements of a major study by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is about to bear discernible results - - the funding of theological education. A study of theological education that began in 1989 has helped shape the eight ELCA seminaries of...
Federal Health Care Bill Accepts Lutheran Health Plan
HEALTH CARE BILL ACCEPTS CHURCH PLANS The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 will subject all group health plans, including church plans, to federal rules governing access and portability. "This is good news for members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's group health plan and other church...
Joyce Cain to Head Lutheran Laity Movement
JOYCE CAIN TO HEAD LLM The Lutheran Laity Movement for Stewardship (LLM) board of directors elected B. Joyce Cain to a four-year term as executive director, effective Feb. 1, 1997. She will succeed Clinton P. Schroeder, who will retire Jan. 31 after seven years in that post. LLM is a...
Lutherans Assist Refugees in Eastern Zaire
REFUGEES FLEE CAMPS IN EASTERN ZAIRE Action by Churches Together (ACT) reports unrest and serious displacement of people in South Kivu, Eastern Zaire. Up to 250,000 refugees are reported to have fled 12 camps in South Kivu. ACT is a worldwide network of church organizations, including the Lutheran World Federation,...
Karris Golden: Lutheran Youth Organization President
GOLDEN IS LYO PRESIDENT The board of the Lutheran Youth Organization (LYO), the official Lutheran youth ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, met under the leadership of a new president Sept. 26-29 in Manhattan, New York. "The youth of this church have a history of embracing all diversity...
ELCA Human Sexuality Message
HUMAN SEXUALITY MESSAGE At its meeting Nov. 8-11 the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will decide either to adopt a proposed "message" on sexuality and distribute it to ELCA congregations or to send it to next summer's Churchwide Assembly for consideration. The ELCA Conference of Bishops...
ELCA "Women Helping Women Help Themselves"
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN HELP THEMSELVES "During the decade of the '90s, Women of the ELCA is placing special emphasis on being in partnership with women who are struggling against poverty," said Doris E. Strieter, program director for the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. "For us as a...
Seminarians Want Suburban Churches
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Concern for adequate leadership in urban and rural ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America led the ELCA Division for Outreach to recommend a survey of seminary students on their ministerial career expectations. The mission services committee of the division at a meeting here March 8-11...
