Tyler Wertman Tyler Wertman is a student at Wilson Memorial High School and a member of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waynesboro, Virginia. He has played a major role in Grace's communication efforts and provides an [...]
Every Friday during the school year, 17 children who attend Creekside Elementary School in Suffolk, Va., anxiously await to see what items will be in their weekend food pack."The school administrators told me that even [...]
“Finder, Keepers”—usually a childish phrase—was used by a group of middle school students to talk about how God’s love is seen in Luke 15. Lost and Found, the Virginia Synod youth event for 7th and [...]
The LARCUM Conference is a time for Lutherans, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, andUnited Methodists to come together to learn and worship in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 4-5. John H. Armstrong, the guest speaker of the event, is the president and founder of [...]
Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, VA has been bringing their confirmation students to Roanoke for about 25 years to meet the Bishop, tour Roanoke College, and see Lutheran Family Services. Pastor Chris Price who is [...]
By: Pastor David Derrick Each October rostered leaders (pastors, associates in ministry, diaconal ministers, deaconesses) from around the Virginia Synod gather for an annual event called the Gathering of the Ministerium. The word ministerium itself [...]
With the disappearance and death of Hannah Graham at Charlottesville, the ongoing conversations about safety on college campuses have become more frequent in Virginia and across the nation. Virginia Governor Terry [...]
When Pastor Sonya Williams-Giersch began serving the Gravel Springs parish near Winchester, Va., she talked to members of her two new congregations to find out about the community. “I was told there were a lot of [...]
Fool’s For Christ is what they were called. To some, foolish is a perfect way to describe hanging from the side of 25-story building. While it may seem a little crazy, for four members of [...]
After church on Sunday Oct. 5 instead of going out to lunch, more than 70 members of Bethel Lutheran Church in Winchester put on hairnets and plastic gloves, turning large bags of food into 11,808 [...]
