FOR RELEASE ON NOVEMBER 9, 2018 Media Contact: Sawyer Vanden Heuvel, Communications Director, South Dakota Synod svandenheuvel@sdsynod.org | 605-274-5035“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” – Amos 5:24 Lutheran Bishops issue statement of solidarity to the Jewish Community on the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht On November 9, 1938, the […]

10/27/2018 4:15:00 PM – Evangelical Lutheran Church in American New Releases Dear Sisters and Brothers, I write to you with a broken heart – for the lives lost, wounded, and shattered by horrific hatred and violence at Tree of Life Congregation this morning. We join our Jewish neighbors and enter into mourning for all that […]

Mission support dollars make ministry happen! Mission Support is the term used to describe that percentage of the tithes, offerings, and estate gifts your congregation shares beyond your local ministry site. The mission support you send is invested here in Southwestern Minnesota and globally through our ELCA because we live out God’s vision and mission […]

Welcome our new Synod Minster,  Pastor Stephen W. Cook We are excited to announce Pr. Steve Cook has been called to serve as the Equipping Congregations Synod Minister by the Southwestern Minnesota Synod Council. He has accepted this call to serve on your synod’s ministry team. He will join the synod staff team in November. He […]

2018 Hurricane Response, www.ldr.org The situation: The 2018 hurricane season continues to produce strong storms with potentially devastating impacts to the United States. Currently, the Lutheran Disaster Response staff, network, and other partners are monitoring the paths of Hurricanes Florence, Helene, Olivia and Tropical Storm Isaac. Right now, Hurricane Florence poses the greatest threat as […]

U.S. Wildfires, www.ldr.org The Situation: Intense heat in the western United States has fueled a number of wildfires. The Carr fire in Shasta County of Northern California has been particularly dangerous. So far, the fire has claimed six lives, with seven people missing, more than 95,000 acres burned, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and 38,000 […]

6/26/2018 10:00:00 AM, CHICAGO ELCA NEWS Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow … (Jeremiah 22:3). I am dismayed by the Supreme Court’s recent decision concerning […]

6/7/2018 12:30:00 PM, CHICAGO ELCA NEWS  The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has convened ELCA ecumenical and inter-religious partners in a statement addressing concerns over a recent U.S. government policy calling for more stringent enforcement of federal immigration laws. The policy will most likely result in […]

4/14/2018 2:10:00PM ELCA NEWS “Give God no rest” (Isaiah 62:6-7) until that day when “the wolf and the lamb shall feed together. … They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord” (Isaiah 65:25) (ELCA social statement, “For Peace in God’s World”). In recent days we have witnessed, with additional horror, […]