The Equipping Congregations Day (ECD) held in Willmar on the last Saturday of February is taking a year off in 2021. In place of the ECD look for Ministry Basics Zoom Workshops. Ministry Basics will be a series of hour-long presentations like those you would expect at the annual ECD. Several zoom workshops will in fact […]
2019 ECD Thank You and Presentations
Thank you to all the people from across our synod who helped make another Equipping Congregations Day, a great day. The weather kept many attendees home, so below are two recorded videos of our keynote speakers, Beth Lewis and Bishop Jon Anderson. We are working on getting Ben Winchester’s presentation posted soon! Extra food went […]
Stewardship snippets for congregation
Rev. Rob Blezard is the Assistant to the Bishop of our ELCA’s Lower Susquehanna Synod (Pennsylvania). Rob has created these “Stewardship Snippets” for congregations to use in bulletin as they practice making stewardship a topic of everyday faith practice. Let me know if you like these resources. I’ll try to make them available as an […]
ECD Thank You
BIG thank you for all the people who helped make our 2017 Equipping Congregations Day so successful. We are so grateful for the planning team which included: Pastors Janine Olson, Maggie Cummings, Elan Hacker and Linda Pedersen, Minister Michelle Kleene, Jenni Thorpe, Jayme Winter, Caitlin Kodet and John Jahr. The host churches of Bethel and […]
Bp. Jon’s ECD Presentation
Blog post by Bishop Jon Anderson- Click here to download my presentation to the large group. My notes for my conversation about young adults: Young Adult Round table: We’re Glad You’re Here! Bishop Jon Anderson and Young Adults from Your Synod– Equipping Day – February 24, 2017 Young Adult Roundtable: We’re Glad You’re Here! […]
Equipping Day Presentations – Bishop Jon's Spirit Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
We had a great Equipping Day last Saturday. We are thankful for the teaching, conversation, singing, learning, ideas hatched and connections made. Here are my two PowerPoint presentations. The first is from my workshop. The second from my closing presentation. Formed for the Ongoing Reformation Innovation – Continual Reformation