The ELCA’s Truth & Healing Movement is an opportunity for members of the ELCA to increase our understanding of our colonizing impacts on Indigenous people in the past and present. Over the next several months, there will be opportunities to learn, raise awareness and engage in other ways to impact hearts and lives across this church. We believe that the truth, and our knowing and embracing it, is the first step toward healing for all of us.

Some of these opportunities will be calls to individual action, and some will be activities that congregations and small groups should coordinate and participate in together. All these opportunities can be easily promoted by sharing links on social media or other communication platforms.

Below are some upcoming opportunities to engage with this important movement. For the most up to date information, please go directly to Truth & Healing Movement Upcoming Events Page.

September 13 – 7-8pm CT

The ELCA Truth & Healing Movement will have the honor of hosting a conversation with survivors of Indian Boarding Schools.

No pre-registration is required to participate.

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*If the above Zoom link does not connect, please go to Truth & Healing Movement Upcoming Events Page.

September 18 – 7-8pm CT

The ELCA Truth & Healing Movement will host the opportunity to hear from descendants of survivors of Indian Boarding Schools. This too is a special moment.

No pre-registration is required to participate.

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*If the above Zoom link does not connect, please go to Truth & Healing Movement Upcoming Events Page.

September 21 – 7-8pm CT

The Truth-Seeking and Truth-Telling Initiative is intended to organize Lutherans to seek and tell the truth about Lutheran involvement in Indian boarding schools in the United States and their impact on Native peoples. Hundreds of ELCA members have already participated in the Initiative during phase one this past year, and phase two has recently commenced.

Join us to hear more about the Initiative, what we have learned, and how you can get involved. You can also learn more at www.elca.org/IndianBoardingSchools.

No pre-registration is required to participate.

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*If the above Zoom link does not connect, please go to Truth & Healing Movement Upcoming Events Page.

September 26 – 7-8pm CT

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has commenced its Truth and Healing Movement, inspiring us to grow in better and right relationships with Indigenous people and tribal nations on Turtle Island. This workshop will explore the truths we seek to learn and the healing we hope to experience, as well as how the movement began, among Indigenous people and within the ELCA. It will also explain the work the ELCA has done recently and how you can participate in this justice movement.

No pre-registration is required to participate.

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*If the above Zoom link does not connect, please go to Truth & Healing Movement Upcoming Events Page.