Pray. Learn. Act. Pray Individually and together, pray for those who flee their homelands out of fear and threat of danger. Pray especially for displaced children. Pray for those who serve on the border, including border patrol and the staff of transitional facilities and pray for those with the authority to shape and enact policy…
ELCA Bishops in Iowa express the faith community’s call to provide care for the unaccompanied children from Central America IOWA CITY, IA – Scripture repeatedly, and unapologetically, calls for God’s people to welcome the stranger, the alien, the orphan, the widow, and the sojourner. This is why the refugee crisis that continues to unfold on the…
Accompaniment – a life of sharing ELCA missionaries walk hand in hand with their brothers and sisters in the global church. It’s a life of sharing rather than leading. “[We] walk with the people in our new communities, to share their sorrows, their victories, their lives for the short time we cross paths,” says Rachel…
What does this mean? Old as well as young need its enduring, concise instruction. By Elizabeth A. Eaton Several years ago my husband’s bishop tried initiating a diocese-wide call to the catechumenate to engage those preparing for confirmation in a period of study and formation. We call it confirmation class or catechism, something generations of…