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Last week, ELCA voting members (clergy, deacons and lay leaders) gathered in Phoenix, AZ for the Churchwide Assembly. The Rev. Yehiel Curry was elected July 30 to serve a six-year term as presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). We at Central are excited to host Bishop-elect Curry’s installation on Saturday, October 4.
The 2025 summer trips are complete and all participants are home with stories to last a lifetime. The Amnicon crew paddled for four days on the Flambeau and spent their final night next to a warm fire under the stars on the south shore of Lake Superior.
While many of you have been out enjoying this beautiful Minnesota summer, we have been making the most of our time during the lull in the program year. In keeping with the philosophy of being kind to our future selves, we continue to cross off projects on our long-term “to do” list.
But as people of faith, we are not powerless. We are called to be stewards of creation and caretakers of one another.
Connecting faith and daily life is a primary goal for wilderness camp experiences. In canoes, on the trail, and in the tents, kids and their adult leaders have an opportunity to talk about faith.
The Fine Arts Ministry Team presents a new art show in the South Entry Hall: Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa). Take a moment to learn more about this awesome new show! Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa) was an initiative undertaken in the 1970s to help teach the Gospel in Northern Cameroon. The initiative was spearheaded by French Catholic missionary François Vidil. He worked with Mafa Christian communities in Cameroon to create a catalogue of paintings depicting the life of Jesus as an African man…
Weekly reflections from the preaching pastor.
We begin a new year together, celebrating that Jesus comes to dwell with us and we respond in song.
While this moment might feel bleak, we cannot lose hope or momentum. Our siblings who experience homelessness need us more than ever to come alongside them.
Jesus tends to our human frailty and limitation by reminding us of our home in God. Our human frailty and limitation are where we begin and end.
Many of us can imagine the faces and the presence of the saints who enriched our lives. We can imagine those who taught us to love and live in faith and hope, knowing that we, too, are just visitors.
At Reformation, we celebrate the good news of God’s love for all. Martin Luther experienced a deep awareness of God’s unconditional love for all, a mercy that comes from God and is for you and for me.
In celebration and gratitude for these partners in mission, you are invited and encouraged to join the celebration as we mark this Global Mission weekend. Come and hear their stories of home from the other side of the world.
