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The Mistakes that Really Good Change Leaders Make
Join us for this exciting opportunity
September 27, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
1416 Broad River Rd, Columbia, SC 29210
featuring: Tod Bolsinger
Author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
Building a Culture of Generosity: Fall 2025
Are you interested is a stewardship opportunity that will guide your congregation through your fall stewardship appeal?
Addressing Questions regarding the 2025 ELCA Assembly
A Letter from Bishop Aebischer Addressing Questions regarding the 2025 ELCA Assembly
Generous Stewardship: God's Story and our Story
Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Zion, Lexington
What’s Happening
Building a Culture of Generosity : Fall 2025
Are you interested is a stewardship opportunity that will guide your congregation through your fall stewardship appeal.? This stewardship program for your congregation will seek to: Stabilize and grow financial giving? Teach Biblical stewardship principles? Help...
We Pray for the Family of The Reverend Ronald Lyell Diegel
Pastor Ronald Lyell Diegel, 88, of Lexington, passed away on July 3, 2025 and went to be with his Lord after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Born in Albany, New York, on July 3, 1937, he was the son of Lyell and Miriam Diegel. He was married to the late Charlotte L....
We Pray for the Family of Barbara Dennis Corley
Barbara Dennis Corley, 96, formally of Orangeburg, SC, passed away on June 22, 2025, at the home of her daughter in Seneca, SC. She was the widow of The Reverend George Baylis Corley who passed away in June of 2024. They were married for nearly 75 years. Barbara was...
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Staff Meeting
July 23, 2025 11:00 am - 1:00 pm SC Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1003 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA See more details
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Churchwide Assembly
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July 30, 2025 11:00 am - 1:00 pm SC Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1003 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA See more details
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Our Stories
13th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration
January 26, 2025 “Give it One More Try!” Mark 5:25-34 Keeping Dr. King’s dream alive in the hope that one day we will all truly be Beloved Community, the Rev. Angela Ford Broughton, pastor at New Life United Methodist Church, Walterboro and LTSS graduate (2015)...
Communal Stewards of Creation
The 2024 South Carolina Synod Assembly passed a resolution setting the goal that every congregation will begin a new initiative that cares for God's creation in some way. The resolution states that congregations should plan to submit a story of their initiative prior...
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