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What You Do Matters

+Bishop Dee PedersonWhat you do matters, friends. Every day, God is doing life-giving things through you. Whether in cities, open-country, or towns, you are being the church in a changing era as God continues to re-form us today.  As I think about each of you and your congregations as you lean into Holy Week, I

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Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church

At the 2022 Churchwide Assembly, voting members adopted a memorial concerning restructuring the ELCA’s governance. The assembly adopted the following action: To direct the Church Council to establish a Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church comprised of leaders of diverse representation from all three expressions that, working in consultation with the Conference of Bishops and

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Listen God is Calling

Listen, God Is Calling!

Listen, God is calling!  Throughout the Bible, God calls God’s people to faithful adventures and to leadership and service to God’s people. Think about Moses, called to lead God’s people from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land.  Remember Miriam, who was called by God to lead her people in victorious song!  Consider the prophet

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Thanksgiving Message

A Thanksgiving Message from Bishop Dee Pederson

For the Fruit of All Creation   1    For the fruit of all creation,        thanks be to God.        For these gifts to ev’ry nation,        thanks be to God.        For the plowing, sowing, reaping,        silent growth while we are sleeping,        future needs in earth’s safekeeping,        thanks be to God.   2    In the just reward of labor,        God’s

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Transitioning

Transition

+Bishop Dee Pederson Dear beloved people of God – For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building. – 1 Cor. 3:9, NIV At the February 2020 Equipping Congregations Day, I led a workshop on imagining new ways to adapt in ministry in light of a culture that was rapidly changing.

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