The Forward Together in Faith initiative will be empowered in part by a networking emphasis. Pastor Jim Goodyear of Gloria Dei, Huntingdon Valley led a discussion about networking, and synod voting members viewed special videos about successful networking enterprises in synod churches and beyond. They also had fun tossing balls of yarn around to begin the art...
Innovators have an innate ability to create something out of nothing; they have a passion for transformation, said the Rev Patricia Davenport, the synod’s Director for Evangelical Mission. Innovators are focused on meeting needs, solving problems. “Innovators are connected collaborators between church and community,” she said. Watch the session Davenport began by enumerating some of the...
“Thanks to significant work by the people of the synod, God has cast a vision,” and now it is the time for the people of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod (SEPA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to take on the work God is dreaming for them to do, said Jeff Kjellberg of Kairos Associates....
A large, red shipping container sits in the parking lot of the Lutheran Church of God’s Love in Newtown waiting for Saturday mornings. That’s when team members open it up and work on its transformation into a medical clinic that will serve a community near Kisumu, Kenya, Africa. The members of God’s Love heard about...
As technology evolves faster and faster, it’s important for church leaders to keep up with the communications channels that people are using in their everyday lives, says Bob Fisher, assistant to the bishop for mission interpretation. With six generations living in our congregations and communities, church communicators have to be fluent with media from print...
Equipping and releasing the power of Lutherans in Southeastern Pennsylvania will mean “empowering lay people to take leadership in ministry,” says Kat Steinly, a senior seminarian supported by our Synod. Congregational members “are called disciples with their own visions, and the church helps to inform that vision,” she says. It’s also important for pastors to...
Our Synod’s newest faith community, Living Gospel Ministries, recently began worshipping. “I am excited about the fact that we are actually becoming a worshipping community,” says Pastor Linda Manson. “I believe that adding this aspect will only increase the ways in which we are able to serve our community.” Living Gospel’s main focus is to...
The Forward Together in Faith initiative will be empowered in part by a networking emphasis. Pastor Jim Goodyear of Gloria Dei, Huntingdon Valley led a discussion about networking, and synod voting members viewed special videos about successful networking enterprises in synod churches and beyond. They also had fun tossing balls of yarn around to begin the art...
Innovators have an innate ability to create something out of nothing; they have a passion for transformation, said the Rev Patricia Davenport, the synod’s Director for Evangelical Mission. Innovators are focused on meeting needs, solving problems. “Innovators are connected collaborators between church and community,” she said. Watch the session Davenport began by enumerating some of the...
“Thanks to significant work by the people of the synod, God has cast a vision,” and now it is the time for the people of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod (SEPA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to take on the work God is dreaming for them to do, said Jeff Kjellberg of Kairos Associates....
A large, red shipping container sits in the parking lot of the Lutheran Church of God’s Love in Newtown waiting for Saturday mornings. That’s when team members open it up and work on its transformation into a medical clinic that will serve a community near Kisumu, Kenya, Africa. The members of God’s Love heard about...
As technology evolves faster and faster, it’s important for church leaders to keep up with the communications channels that people are using in their everyday lives, says Bob Fisher, assistant to the bishop for mission interpretation. With six generations living in our congregations and communities, church communicators have to be fluent with media from print...
Equipping and releasing the power of Lutherans in Southeastern Pennsylvania will mean “empowering lay people to take leadership in ministry,” says Kat Steinly, a senior seminarian supported by our Synod. Congregational members “are called disciples with their own visions, and the church helps to inform that vision,” she says. It’s also important for pastors to...
Our Synod’s newest faith community, Living Gospel Ministries, recently began worshipping. “I am excited about the fact that we are actually becoming a worshipping community,” says Pastor Linda Manson. “I believe that adding this aspect will only increase the ways in which we are able to serve our community.” Living Gospel’s main focus is to...
