Family Stays in Virginia For Faith
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 [...]
MLK Day, Off of Work and On for Service: Volunteers Work To Benefit Luke’s Backpack
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 [...]
Winter Celebration is Cancelled
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 [...]
Winter Celebration is still *ON* as of Wednesday Morning
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 [...]
The Wideness of God’s Kingdom: Justice Conversations in 2016
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. [...]
The Top 15 Moments of 2015
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 [...]
On Diversity & Inclusion: History Lessons, Threats, & Christmas
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 [...]
Christmas Message From Bishop Mauney
"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, [...]
The Joy of Christmas
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. [...]
Bible Study by Sarah Krell
Bible study this morning is by Sarah Krell, the elder daughter of Pastor Chip Gunsten, who died on December 11. She has asked each year for this week of the year to write a devotion [...]