Something to Look Over During the Thanksgiving Weekend…

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 

ELCA Responds to Disasters on Three Continents

CHICAGO (ELCA) — Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), through its International Disaster Response, provided $173,500 to support recovery efforts in Indonesia, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.

 

Pre-Thanksgiving Updates Coming!

Greetings everyone,

Eric here to give you a quick update on the blog. Sorry we’ve been off for a little over a week. I’ve been busy preparing an all-new issue of Partners in Mission (which you should have any day now) and CrossTraining brochure, along with a brand new Lay Academy for Mission website!

Blog updates will resume tomorrow with Bishop Hanson’s Christmas Message and a whole slew of things from churchwide, along with some synod updates.

If you have anything you’d like to see on the blog when I update tomorrow, drop me a line!

Thanks! 

 

Mr. Deity Episode 3: Mr. Deity and The Light

Something to watch and ponder over the weekend…

 

ELCA Bishops Join LIRS in Supporting Trafficking Victims Protection Act

WASHINGTON (ELCA) — Ten synod bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) signed a letter Nov. 6 with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) urging the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary to quickly pass the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007 (TVPRA), which contains provisions to help identify and protect child victims of trafficking.

The TVPRA bill, if signed into law, would help to identify child trafficking victims, prevent children in federal custody from being released to traffickers, ensure that children in federal custody are placed in settings suitable for addressing their needs, and provide services to child trafficking survivors in federal custody.

 

In Discussion

We’re in discussions about everything we’ve talked about this morning. Here’s the LYO team: