Spotlight

Our Ministry Together – Public Policy & Service

Posted: December 10, 2021 | Filed Under: Spotlight

Our Ministry Together is a series of short videos intended to highlight and celebrate areas of our common mission across the Eastern Synod.

This month Rev. Christie Morrow-Wolfe, Assistant to the Bishop tells us about the important Public Policy & Service work of the Synod. She highlights the role of the Racial Justice Advisory Committee, Circle for Reconciliation and Justice, as well as the newly forming environmental committee.

We encourage you to share these videos on social media and during mediated worship.

Thank you for your gifts of prayer and financial support! This is, indeed, Our Ministry Together!

To donate, please visit: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/6472

For more information about this project, please contact Rev. Adam Snook (asnook@elcic.ca). www.easternsynod.org https://rjaceastern.wixsite.com/home

Our Ministry Together – Mission

Posted: November 19, 2021 | Filed Under: Spotlight

Our Ministry Together is a series of short videos intended to highlight and celebrate areas of our common mission across the Eastern Synod.

Did you know…in the last 10 years over $2,500,000 has been granted to Eastern Synod congregations to support creative, innovative, and unique ideas for mission in God’s world! Such support is made possible through the Church Extension and Capital Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, as well as through generous gifts of bequest.

This month Rev. Adam Snook, Assistant to the Bishop welcomes some of our most recent Mission Grant recipients, who share with us how they’re using these financial gifts to build relationship, strengthen partnerships, address challenges, and further the mission of God’s church.

We encourage you to share these videos on social media and during mediated worship.

For more information about this project, please contact Rev. Adam Snook (asnook@elcic.ca).

Our Ministry Together – ELCIC Highlight

Posted: October 12, 2021 | Filed Under: Spotlight

Our Ministry Together is a series of short videos intended to highlight and celebrate areas of our common mission across the Eastern Synod, many of which are funded through congregational benevolence.

This month we spend time with our National Bishop Susan Johnson, who tells us about the role of the ELCIC in expanding the ministries of individual synods by building relationships and establishing partnerships.

We encourage you to share these videos on social media and during mediated worship. All videos will be featured on our YouTube channel, and alternatively can be downloaded HERE.

For more information about the Our Ministry Together project, or to submit photos that highlight our Eastern Synod ministries for upcoming videos, please contact Rev. Adam Snook (asnook@elcic.ca).

Thank you for your gifts of prayer and financial support!This is, indeed, Our Ministry Together!

Best Practices for the Safe Resumption of In-Person Worship

Posted: August 13, 2021 | Filed Under: COVID, News, Spotlight

Dear Colleagues,

Grace and peace be with you!

Attached, please find a document outlining my office’s recommended Best Practices for the Safe Resumption of In-Person Worship. We have created this document in response to the many inquiries we have received these past few weeks from rostered ministers and congregational leaders who are contemplating a resumption of in-person worship.

I recognize that some will receive these recommendations as being unduly restrictive or not restrictive enough. This is understandable given the broad geographical expanse of our synod. I do believe, however, that they are appropriate and responsible.

A COVID-19 Update (July 6, 2021)

Posted: July 6, 2021 | Filed Under: COVID, Spotlight, Uncategorised

Dear colleagues,

In some ways, these early days of July have left me feeling the same as I felt last summer. Once again, many of our congregations are in the process of discerning how, when and if they should plan to resume in-person worship; and what exactly such a resumption ought to look like. Undoubtedly, we engage these questions with a healthy dose of both uncertainty and optimism as we watch case numbers across the territory of our Eastern Synod continue to drop.

First and foremost, allow me to express my deepest gratitude to our Rostered Leaders, Lay Leaders, Musicians, Volunteers and congregations for your continued and faithful commitment to the health, safety, and wellbeing of your neighbours. This has been, is, and will continue to be an act of love and service. I am so proud of our church, and the resilience, creativity and faithfulness with which each of you have navigated this long period of pandemic.