ELCA News Service June 25, 2015 ELCA presiding bishop to attend funeral in Charleston, S.C. 15-38-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will attend the June 26 funeral of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, who was among the […]

Presiding Bishop Eaton attending funeral in Charleston

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Over the past several weeks the Congregational Council has been meeting with Pastor Scott Schantzenbach who is the assistant to the bishop of the NJ Synod. Our conversations have been focused on the mission of Zion Evangelical Lutheran in particular and the mission of […]

Perfect Love

I urge all of us to spend a day in repentance and mourning. And then we need to get to work. Each of us and all of us need to examine ourselves, our church and our communities. We need to be honest about the reality of racism within us and […]

Presiding Bishop Eaton’s Statement on Racism and the Church

Therese Bera and Kathryn Irwin are interested in getting a group of people together to crochet sleeping mats out of plastic grocery bags for our brothers and sisters who are homeless. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But it’s not!  Watch the video below: While it’s a little labor-­-intensive to make the […]

Sleeping Mats for the Homeless

Last week, the House State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee released draft legislation that outlines how the U.S.  Government should invest in addressing the migration of vulnerable children and families from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Approximately 70,000 children fled their communities and arrived in the United States last year. These […]

Advocacy for fleeing children and families