Easter is both the most important festival in the church celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead thus overcoming sin, death and evil, and it is also a season consisting of seven Sundays. The color is white (with some gold).
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:24-25 NIV
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. August E. Wenzel, a pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), former Lutheran
bishop and seminary educator, died May 5 of cancer at home in San
Antonio. He was 72.
A funeral service will be held May 10 at Faith Lutheran
Church, Seguin, Texas.
"Augie Wenzel was a rare gift to the church -- part
theologian, part administrator, part visionary for what the
church needs to become and to be," said the Rev. Roger W. Fjeld,
Estes Pa...
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- International Disaster Response of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) provided $100,000
as an initial response to help meet the basic needs of survivors
in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis battered the Southeast Asian
country May 3.
"The Myanmar government reported that nearly 22,500 people
died and close to 41,000 are missing," said Dr. Belletech
Deressa, director for international development and disaster
response, ELCA Global Mission. These fig...
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) is
assessing damage left behind by tornadoes and severe storms that
swept across Arkansas May 5. Seven people died and more than
400 homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and churches were
damaged or destroyed in the most recent storms.
"This spring numerous communities in many states have been
impacted by severe storms. Arkansas has been particularly
affected by storms including devastating tornadoes. We pray for
the fami...
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- For the past decade the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Board of Pensions has
supported the pursuit of wellness and health promotion
initiatives within the ELCA. The initiatives support the
personal wellness journeys of those who serve the church,
including a "wholeness wheel," a working relationship with
the Mayo Clinic and an array of resources dealing with
everything from financial to spiritual health. There are
also voices -- wellness voices.
...
MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- Sales of the pew edition of
"Evangelical Lutheran Worship" (ELW) for the first quarter of
2008 were slightly more than half what was projected by Augsburg
Fortress, the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA). The ELCA publisher expects this trend
to continue for the remainder of the year and revised its pew
edition sales forecast to about $3.4 million for 2008, down from
the $5.5 million in sales it originally projected, said ...
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Thomas M. Aitken, Bethany
Lutheran Church, Loman, Minn., and First Lutheran Church,
International Falls, Minn., was elected May 4 to a six-year
term as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(ELCA) Northeastern Minnesota Synod. He succeeds the Rev.
E. Peter Strommen as bishop on Aug. 1. Strommen served 12
years as bishop and was ineligible for re-election.
Aitken was elected on the fifth ballot during the synod
assembly May 2-4 in Dul...
