+Bishop Jon V. Anderson  Here is the full job description for our next Director for Evangelical Mission. This is an ELCA churchwide position under the day-to-day supervision of the synod bishop. The staff member is nested in the synod staff and the midst of the synod where they serve. No one can replace Larry. Let’s […]

In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered. 4 Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called […]

We are free to greet this holy season knowing that Christ’s cradle defeats the grave. Life and healing and hope come to us in the child in the manger.   View & download a video message from Bishop Eaton Download English PDF | Download Spanish PDF

Lilly Foundation Economic Challenges Initiative Gives Major Grant to the Southwestern Minnesota Synod and New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) For Immediate Release

 You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy. Psalm 16.11 Normally when I think about Thanksgiving I find myself looking back. This year I am working on balancing the remembering with hopeful looking forward. God’s presence and actions will lead to times worthy of thanksgiving in the days, […]

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 […]