Hurricanes Irma & Harvey Hurricane Irma made landfall Sept. 6 as a category 5 storm with 185 mph winds: one of the worst in recorded history. Touching down again in Florida and then moving inland, the impact to Florida is widespread and Irma will likely also affect other states before running her course.
Harvey recovery and response How can we help? All of us watching the destruction of Hurricane Harvey over the last week have asked this same question. What can we do? The good news is, “we” as the ELCA–churchwide, synods, and congregations–have already begun to help.
You’re invited to a Service in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. Saturday, September 23, 2017 Covenant Presbyterian Church 1000 E. Morehead Street, Charlotte, NC. A Sacred Concert featuring choirs from both Newberry College and Lenoir-Rhyne University will begin at 1:30 p.m. The service will begin at 2:00p.m. with a Processional of Ecumenical […]
The laborers in the vineyard In her August column for Living Lutheran, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton shares a lesson from one of Christ’s parables. Read her column here.
“What are you doing”? NC Lutheran Men in Mission Coordinator, Terry Edwards, recently made a Synod Partners visit to Messiah Lutheran Church in Hickory and asked, “What are you doing?” The answers amazed him. “I looked around and realized, ‘this isn’t a very big congregation, but they are sure doing a lot in this community,’ […]
When Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton attended the Lutheran World Federation Assembly in May, she was reminded that the ELCA is not alone in the world. In her July column for Living Lutheran, she notes that while our contexts are very different, all Lutherans have something in common—our life in Christ. Read her column here.
In her June column in Living Lutheran, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton considers the the relationship between church and state. Read her column here.
Steve Lyttle is the Christian Education team leader at Morning Star, Matthews. Last fall he got the “bright” idea to schedule a one-week Sunday School class for adults on the Syrian refugee crisis.
In her May column in Living Lutheran, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has been thinking about the story of the fiery serpents sent among the people of Israel in the wilderness. Read her column here.