Category: ELCA News

A Summer Message from Bishop Dunlop

Watch a a summer message from Lower Susquehanna Synod Bishop James Dunlop that draws on the first chapter of Genesis and God’s gift of Sabbath.

Here’s a summer message from Lower Susquehanna Synod Bishop James Dunlop that draws on the first chapter of Genesis and God’s gift of Sabbath. Please watch and share in your congregations and with your family and friends. How are you living into God’s gift of rest this summer? Continue reading “A Summer Message from Bishop Dunlop”

God’s work. Our hands. Part 2

Sunday, September 7, 2014
We will be packing school kits and personal care kits to send around the world.

“God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday is an opportunity to celebrate who we are as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — one church, freed in Christ to serve and love our neighbor. On Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, the nearly 10,000 congregations of this church gather to serve communities in ways that share the love of God with all of God’s people. – See more at: http://www.elca.org/dayofservice#sthash.qWdCElyI.dpuf

Holy Spirit will again be participating in this event by packing school kits and personal care kits for Lutheran World Relief.

Remember to wear your yellow shirt that day.

Yellow: Wear it and Share it!

Elizabeth Eaton elected ELCA presiding bishop

The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northeastern Ohio Synod, was elected Aug. 14 presiding bishop of the ELCA at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.

PITTSBURGH (ELCA) – The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northeastern Ohio Synod, was elected Aug. 14 presiding bishop of the ELCA at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Eaton is the ELCA’s first presiding bishop-elect.

Prior to becoming synod bishop, Eaton served as pastor for ELCA congregations in Ohio. She earned a Master’s of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a Bachelor’s degree in music education from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.