Social services agency defends salary – The York Daily Record

Diakon responds to the Lower Susquehanna Synod Assemblys request to justify compensation to its top executives.

Social services agency defends salary – The York Daily Record

Blessing of animals at Trinity, Lansdale

Bullying victims ‘suffer in silence’ phillyBurbs.com | Courier Times

The Rev. Bernard Kelly of the Family of God Lutheran Church in Buckingham tells the stories of bullied youths to a Bucks County summit on the problem.

Bullying victims ‘suffer in silence’ phillyBurbs.com | Courier Times

Lutheran Disaster Response in the Eye of 2008 Hurricane Season

wfn.org | Lutheran Disaster Response in the Eye of 2008 Hurricane Season
Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA are responding in the aftermath of tropical storms and hurricanes, waiting to assess the damage of Hurricane Gustav and preparing for the remainder of the 2008 hurricane season. “We are in difficult days,” said the Rev. Kevin A. Massey, director, Lutheran Disaster Response LDR.

Prayers requested for SeMi Synod

The website of the Southeast Michigan Synod, our partner synod, reports that Bishop John H. K. Schreiber died Saturday, August 16th. Please keep his wife, Rev. Colleen Kampke, and their children, Paul and Claire, and the people and staff of the synod in your prayers.

Rest eternal grant John, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine on him.

More information will follow as it is available.

Rejoicing Spirits grows in Souderton

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Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Souderton, with the lay leadership of Jay Grimes of Franconia, has started a service that allows developmentally delayed members of the community to worship in a ministry that is tailored just for them.

“We’re all part of the same community is what it comes down to,” Grimes said.

Grimes is the ministry coordinator for the Rejoicing Spirits service at Emmanuel Lutheran Church

This monthly service has been providing a Christian outlet for developmentally delayed individuals, their families and their care givers for the last 2½ years.

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Little church with big heart celebrates 100th

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A small Ambler Borough church with a rich history will kick off its centennial with a community celebration Sunday.

St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ambler was chartered April 26, 1908. It was founded by a young pastor from Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, Samuel F. Tholan, who began leading services in the heart of Ambler in 1907.

For five years services were held in the Ambler Opera House, at the corner of Butler Avenue and Maple Street. In 1913 the congregation moved to a new church building on the corner of North Ridge Avenue and Race Street, where it still stands.

“I think what’s interesting in anything that lasts,” the Rev. Sandra Ellis-Killian said, “it’s what changes and what stays the same through all the ups and downs.”

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Oregon pact models Methodist, Lutheran communion

When a United Methodist congregation and a Lutheran congregation in McMinnville, Ore., formed a cooperative ministry two years ago, the decision emerged out of a desire to share a common mission, not out of desperation.

Neither the McMinnville United Methodist Church nor Trinity Lutheran Church, part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was in danger of closing, according to the Rev. Stephan Ross, the United Methodist pastor.

“Both of our churches could survive quite well on their own,” he explained. But the congregations liked the idea of being “a model of and a testimony to the unity of the church, which transcends denominational distinctions.” (United Methodist News Service)

wfn.org | [UMNS-ALL-NEWS] UMNS# 178-Oregon pact models Methodist, Lutheran communion

wfn.org | Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure

wfn.org | Lutheran Disaster Response Nearly Completes $27.7 Million Expenditure

Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) has nearly completed the expenditure of more than $27.7 million collected to support recovery work along the U.S. Gulf Coast in response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and other hurricanes from the 2005 season. And in an effort to continue rebuilding the Gulf Coast in the long-term, LDR — a collaborative ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) — is asking for more funds.

William Lazareth, Former ELCA Synod Bishop, Author, Professor, Dies

wfn.org | William Lazareth, Former ELCA Synod Bishop, Author, Professor, Dies
The Rev. William H. Lazareth, former bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) died of cancer Feb. 23 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Lazareth, 79, had a distinguished career as a college and seminary professor, author and leader with the ELCA, the former Lutheran Church in America (LCA) and the World Council of Churches (WCC), Geneva.