14. Our Pastors Horseback Riding Down Virginia Beach at Gathering of the Ministerium The Gathering of the Ministerium has been a tradition in the Virginia Synod for the last couple of decades, but this year the [...]
The Christmas outreach program at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church (LMLC) in Blacksburg has evolved over the years from food baskets and gift cards to Christmas parties for local children. Now LMLC is giving a gift [...]
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 [...]
