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The 45th Annual SC Lutheran Scout Retreat will take place January 17-19 at Camp Kinard. (Backup date January 31- February 2).
What if being an evangelist just meant being yourself? Evangelism does not have to be hard or outside your comfort zone. Come join your friends to talk, laugh, pray, see videos, and learn together. See what you're already doing that's natural evangelism, and find out how to use your other natural gifts to do what matters! Check out the brochure.
Here's your invitation to engage with ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission around the world! It's free, and it's easy. They are blogging from everywhere, so it's interesting and easy to keep up with them.
The 2014 Bishop's School will be held the week of June 22-28 on the campus of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC. Click here for the brochure. If you have a young person currently in the 11th or 12th grade, please nominate him or her for Bishop’s School at LTSS in 2014. Nominations are due by April 1.
NOVEMBER 21, 2013: The newly-launched ELCA Website has new links to the ELCA news. As soon as we receive the code for the news feed, we will have it right here, waiting for you! In the meantime, please click on elca.org and explore the new site.
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Are you having special services? Concerts? Live Nativity scenes?
Let's see how many events we can all post between now and Christmas; it's a joy-filled time!
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"Together We Can..." is this year's theme for youth ministry in the synod and we have been focusing on our unity as the Body of Christ, as well as our call to be disciples of Christ.
I'm wondering - is there a connection between access to clean water, and access to learning. Can a child learn a lesson more easily, if the child is not thirsty?
Have you ever noticed that most of Jesus’ preaching, teaching and healing stories happened while he was traveling on the road from one destination to another, and that the disciples learned what it meant to share God’s Kingdom with others by walking with Jesus?
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2013 under the theme, "Always being made new." What God is doing through us here at home and around the world is worth celebrating. As you embark in ministry during this anniversary year, take a look back at the people and events that have shaped us as a church while looking toward the future together anew.