When grocery and gas bills stretch a family’s budget, a local food pantry can help make ends meet. This summer, Virginia Synod congregations came together through Pasta with a Purpose and donated 16,169.45 pounds of [...]
Planned Giving You are invited to a one-hour, practical workshop on planned giving and endowment funds for congregations, designed specifically for pastors and lay leaders. We’ll demystify how planned gifts and endowments work, name common [...]
Weaving Our Stories: LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Tapestry Story Telling Zoom Gatherings Dates: Tuesdays, October 13, October 21, and November 10 – 7pm Zoom In 2026, the Tapestry Team invites you to storytelling Zoom gatherings. Weaving Our [...]
Treasurer’s Workshop: End of Year Preparations November is a great time to prepare for the end of the fiscal year. This workshop with John Krallman, the Treasurer of the Virginia Synod, and Pastor John Wertz, [...]
Lost and Found is our annual faith-sharing retreat for 7th and 8th graders and their adult advisors. Our 2026 event will take place Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22 at Eagle Eyrie Conference Center [...]
Winter Celebration is our annual weekend faith sharing retreat for youth in 9th through 12th grade and their adult advisors. Winter Celebration will be January 29-31, 2027 at Eagle Eyrie Conference Center in Lynchburg. (Friday [...]
7th Day is our annual overnight faith sharing event for youth in 5th and 6th grades and their adult advisors. In 2027, 7th Day will take place from noon Saturday, March 6th to 1:30 Sunday, [...]
The Virginia Synod will not hold a Synod Assembly in 2026. The primary gathering of the synod in 2026 will take place at Summer Power in the Spirit from July 16-18 on the campus of [...]
Youth Assembly 2027 is scheduled for the same time as the Synod Assembly, as usual - June 11-13, 2027 (Friday noon to Sunday noon) at Roanoke College. This event is planned by our Synod's Lutheran [...]
Kairos is our annual week-long faith sharing event for youth who will be in 9th-12th grades in the fall! This event will take place July 18-23, 2027 (Sunday evening through Friday noon) at Roanoke College in [...]
