After hearing many times that there was a need for Lutheran materials in the Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kari Eller decided to involve her husband, Justin, and a local Christian education team to create inexpensive, accessible Sunday school materials that could be used by a variety of teachers. With the help of the ELCA’s Equipping…
A call to all for greater, deeper and unapologetic participation in this church By Elizabeth A. Eaton We are in the middle of synod assembly season. All synods will meet, vote, discuss, worship and sing. I will be at five of these and can assure you that, though there are delightful regional flavors, they will…
The 27th Assembly of the Southeastern Iowa Synod was held May 3o – June 1, 2014, at Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Coralville, Iowa. Over 500 voting members and guests gathered around the theme “Led by the Spirit”. Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton served as the churchwide representative providing updates and stories of the work we do together…
June 1, 2014 IOWA CITY, IA – The Rev. Michael Burk, 59, was re-elected May 31, to a second six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on the fourth ecclesiastical ballot at the synod assembly, May 30-June 1, at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center,…