LETTER FROM BISHOP YOOS Over the past year, I have worked alongside my bishop colleagues in Region 9 to utilize our position to address systemic issues facing women rostered ministers. In May of 2019, all of the Region 9 bishops gathered to begin work on a “Bishops’...
Pastor Carl Ritchie, 87, of Summerville, South Carolina passed away peacefully on Wednesday surrounded by his family. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina to Hubert E Ritchie and Eloise McKenzie Ritchie and attended Lenoir Rhyne University in Hickory, North...
2020 South Carolina Synod Assembly Nominating Committee By Name Person’s Title Positions to be Elected Synod Council 3 year term ending 2023 Lay Male – Northern Area Rostered Minister (can be Pastor or Deacon) – At Large Rostered Minister (Can be Pastor or...
2019 Inquirer’s Day of Reflection YOU ARE INVITED! Join us on Saturday, November 23, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at St. Stephen’s, Lexington. This day retreat is sponsored by your South Carolina Synod and hosted by the Invitation to Service...
Presiding bishop and Conference of Bishops urge release of funds for East Jerusalem hospitals Photo credit: Lutheran World Federation/M. Renaux The presiding bishop and Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) have issued a letter to...
