2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly

The 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly will be held July 28–Aug. 2, 2025, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz.

The ELCA Churchwide Assembly, the primary decision-making body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is a process of communal spiritual discernment. When the ELCA Churchwide Assembly convenes, its voting members meet with confidence in God’s grace around word and water, wine and bread, to carry on their work on behalf of the entire church. Over the course of the assembly, voting members:

• Hear reports and review the work of churchwide officers, leaders and units.
• Receive and consider proposals from synod assemblies.
• Elect officers, board members and other leaders as specified by the constitution or bylaws.
• Establish ELCA churchwide policy.
• Worship together.
• Adopt a budget.
• Conduct other business related to the ELCA churchwide organization.

Click here to visit the Assembly webpage for more information.

The SW MN Synod has 19 voting members attending the assembly – Claire Boersma, Pr. Paul Bravinder,Pr. Thomas Evenson, Keith Evenson, Kaylee Helgeson, Jodi Johnson, Pr. Austin Krohnke, Maria Lokensgard, Austin Peters-Smith, Shawnn Martin, Jan Nelson, Pr. Kirsten Nelson Roenfeldt, Steve Nelson Roenfeldt, Pr. Janine Olson, Tim Ostby, Pr. Dee Pederson, Pr. Adam Roberts, Pr. Jennifer Thul and Pr. Chimizie Ukaonu.

Please pray for all who are preparing for the Assembly and will be participating in it – that we may be church for the life of the world — for the abundant life promised by God and fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for all creation. Click here to view and download a Blessing and Sending for Mission prayer congregations may use.

All are welcome to join the assembly by following the Churchwide Assembly livestream and watch Bible Study Sessions and Hearing recordings.