2015 was the final year of The United Lutheran Appeal (ULA), a fundraising effort of the Virginia Synod to bring out eight mission partners together under the same umbrella. We believe that the ULA has [...]
Nikki Smith has watched not one, but two of her children be on planning team for Winter Celebration and this year it was her turn. Three planning groups would have looked radically different if she [...]
On Monday, Jan. 18, in Shenandoah County, one group of people decided to take their day off and volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. so that children would have food during the weekends [...]
UPDATE: Click here to watch the faith testimonies from the 2016 Winter Celebration Planning Group. We are cancelling Winter Celebration for Jan. 22-24 due to the extreme weather conditions. We are all sad about [...]
To Virginia Synod Winter Celebration Week 2 participants: As of Wednesday Morning, we are going ahead with our event this weekend. Unless forecasts dramatically worsen, Eagle Eyrie *WILL* be open. Congregations are welcome to arrive [...]
This article is written by Rev. Aaron Fuller, who serves as Pastor at St. Andrew Lutheran and Holy Communion Lutheran Churches, both in Portsmouth, VA. In addition he serves bi-vocationally as a chaplain in the U.S. [...]
We’ve had a pretty incredible year in the Virginia Synod! Now that 2016 is here we thought we would pause to reflect back and celebrate fifteen of the great moments of 2015: 15. Synod [...]
I am an assistant wrestling coach at a local high school in Virginia Beach. This past Thursday, after getting home from practice, I got a phone call from a number in Harrisonburg. Curious, I picked [...]
"All is calm, all is bright." (Some are calm, some are bright) "He has filled the hungry with good things" (Lots are still hungry, children in Virginia, Syrian and Sudanese refugees, children fleeing El Salvador, [...]
Grown women riding bicycles down the aisles of Walmart--that's the joy of Christmas. Those same women buying the bicycles as Christmas gifts for two girls they will never meet--that's the joy of Jesus. [...]
