All But the Turkey
This week we're hearing from Vicar Daniel Hess of Rural Retreat Lutheran Parish on the congregation's recent "All but the Turkey" feeding event hosted for the Thanksgiving holiday last week. The East Highland Youth Group [...]
Lost Hate & Found Love: Lost and Found 2018
Lost and Found, the Virginia Synod youth event for 7th and 8th graders was held November 16-18 at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Convention Center in Lynchburg. This year nearly 200 youth and adult participants got to [...]
Do Justice: November 20, 2018
Welcome to Do Justice, a semi-monthly newsletter of the Virginia Synod, lifting up God’s call and command that we, God’s people, do justice. You will find helpful info about justice ministries in congregations, around [...]
ACTS: Lutheran Confessions
This past Saturday kicked off the second session of the 2018 Fall ACTS (The Ambassadors Community for Theological Study) course in Waynesboro, Wytheville, and Yorktown. ACTS is intended to enrich and equip laity for intentional [...]
Do Justice: November 6, 2018
Welcome to Do Justice, a semi-monthly newsletter of the Virginia Synod, lifting up God’s call and command that we, God’s people, do justice. You will find helpful info about justice ministries in congregations, around [...]
Statements on the Tree of Life Massacre
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding... She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy. (Proverbs 3.13, 18) [...]
Virginia Synod Candidates Update: Alyssa Kaplan
Candidates in the Virginia Synod are up to some amazing things, and we’re taking some time to learn what their call to ministry is like from the stories they share. This is simply one way [...]
Gathering of the Ministerium 2018: Cultivating Brave Spaces
This week from October 15th through the 17th, rostered ministers from across the Virginia Synod gathered for the annual Gathering of the Ministerium in Virginia Beach. In an effort to build and maintain collegial relationships and to [...]
Vote Faithfully: ELCAVotes
Election Day is less than one month away and voter registration deadlines are approaching in many states, including Virginia. We are called to conversation and prayer around our role as U.S. residents and as people [...]
A Statement on Abuse from the Office of the Bishop
Dear siblings in Christ, Our social media streams, tv and radio waves, podcasts, papers, and conversations brim with painful news. Again, and again, powerful people and institutions seem to enable and protect those who abuse [...]