By The Rev. Dr. Herman Yoos Bishop What are you listening for these days? Right now, and for the next nine months, we are all being bombarded by political commercials, each promising a variety of things to win our votes. Yet beneath this election frenzy of voices...
By The Rev. Dr. Beverly J. R. Aurand The Rev. Elizabeth Platz 50 years ago the Holy Spirit gave birth to a new thing in the American Lutheran Church (ALC) and the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) and the ordination of women to the Office of Word and Sacrament was...
By Cathy Milejczak Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, Southwestern Diocese (ELCT) Task Force Last summer a delegation from the South Carolina Synod traveled to the South Western Diocese of Tanzania for the Consecration and Installation of the new Bishop. This...
BY THE REV. HERMAN YOOS Bishop, South Carolina Synod Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Imagine your hands helping to lift three framed, heavy wooden walls for the new Cristo Rey sanctuary, along with 35 Latino brothers and sisters in Christ. I was there on November...
BY THE REV. RICK CARTER Director for Evangelical Mission You have heard these words over the last several months in emails, convocation, assembly and in conversations with colleagues. Exactly what does it mean – Congregational Vitality? The Domestic Mission Unit,...
BY DEACON MITZIE SCHAFER Vice President for Development at NovusWayEthan Miller, an 8th grader from Greenville, SC, loves everything about camp…and music. “We talk about music in terms of praising God,” said Pastor Maria Miller his mother. As a two-year-old in the...
