The Rev. Dr. Phyllis Blair Milton, Pastor at Holy Communion in Portsmouth Virginia, was elected June 11 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [...]
Bishop Bob Humphrey has prepared a sermon for congregational use on Sunday, June 11, 2023. This is the final day of the 2023 Synod Assembly. You can download the manuscript here. You can download the [...]
As of 2020, Virginia’s food insecurity rate stood at 7.7%. That means that over 658,000 people in our state had to worry where their next meal would come from on any given day. Fortunately, there [...]
May is Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. The follow are resources shared by the The Rev. Teresita “Tita” C. Valeriano (she,her, “siya” in Tagalog) who is the Program Director of Asian and Pacific islander [...]
Apache Stronghold has called on a multifaith movement of prayer and action next week as the court case seeking to block a copper mining operation on their sacred lands at Oak Flat, Arizona. This case [...]
As God’s people process the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on April 20, 2021, the Virginia Synod Office of the Bishop acknowledges that this is one step of accountability in [...]
All ages are invited into a synod-wide faith formation experience: Our Journey to Emmaus. Participants will engage the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24) in seven movements over seven Sundays [...]
Pastor Kinim Silio, Director for Inter Church Relation/Ecumenism & Partnership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of PNG, shared Easter Greetings with the Virginia Synod by video. Pastor Tobby Eleaser, District President for the Islands District [...]
