Today, we present our ELCA Advocacy Update for the month of July. Please read below for important information on ELCA Advocacy efforts in Washington, across the country and throughout the world. Please also visit our blog for more information on advocacy efforts from our Lutheran State Advocacy offices.

ELCA Advocacy Update – July 2015

Zion’s team of volunteers is next scheduled to help prepare and serve meals on July 18. Every Saturday, Food For Friends prepares hot meals for hungry residents of the City of Rahway. Individuals and teams of volunteers from various faith communities in Rahway help to prepare and serve these meals. […]

Food for Friends 7/18/15

ELCA News Service July 7, 2015 ELCA receives federal charter to open credit union 15-41-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) was granted a federal charter July 7 to create the ELCA Federal Credit Union. The new credit union will provide products and services to the […]

ELCA Federal Credit Union

Outdoor Worship, BBQ, and “Cars” beginning at 5pm on 7/11/15 (This Saturday), details below. In the event of inclement weather, check Zion’s website for any changes in the schedule.

Worship, BBQ, and a Movie 7/11/15

  Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton offered a pastoral letter on June 30 to the 3.8 million members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples may now exercise the right to marry. The full text of the statement follows.  […]

Presiding Bishop’s letter on SCOTUS marriage ruling

We have no such right June 25, 2015   But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who […]

We have no such right

  Bishop Michael Curry from North Carolina Elected 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was elected the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church on the first ballot on June 27. Bishop Curry, 62, is […]

New Presiding Bishop for Episcopal Church