Bishop Michael brings greetings for a blessed and very celebratory Pride month!
Bishop Michael’s Pride Month Greeting may also be downloaded for inclusion in your mediated worship. Click HERE
Pride Greeting from Bishop Pryse
Spotlight
OK…What’s Next?
OK…What’s Next?
Many of us are asking this question right now, whether we are Lay or Rostered Leaders engaged in worship in the Eastern Synod. In anticipating a move to hybrid worship-presenting, both online and in-person church gatherings, the Eastern Synod and the Centre for Spirituality and Media at Martin Luther University College invite you to join us on June 1 at 6:30 – 8:30 PM EDT for conversation about the way forward.
We anticipate this event to be the first of a possible series of ongoing gatherings to continue developing hybrid worship and community gathering skills. We will invite Lay Leaders into some reflective conversation about their experiences during the past year. Rostered Leaders will have the opportunity to discuss possible ways of collaborating with each other and with other parishes. From one worship leader, we will hear some tips on hybrid worship that worked in their context, and we will look toward building collaborative skills for the future.
Event Schedule
6:30pm – Welcome & Land Acknowledgment
6:35pm – Introduction to “OK…What’s Next?”
6:50pm – Breakout Discussion (Lay or Rostered)
7:10pm – Large Group Discussion (Lay & Rostered)
7:30pm – Break
7:40pm – Presentation & Discussion – Collaborative Worship Models
8:00pm – Network/Support Building
8:15pm – Summary & Identifying Area for Further Discussion
8:30pm – Conclusion
“Ok…What’s Next?” will be hosted virtually using the ZOOM platform.
Pre-Registration is required. A ZOOM link will be forwarded to all participants after completing the registration process. If you have any questions, or have difficulty registering, please contact the Eastern Synod Office.
Please note that this event is intended to be the first in a series of opportunities for Rostered and Lay Leaders to share learnings, build skills and discern a way forward. To stay informed about follow-up opportunities, please indicate your willingness to be contacted during the registration process.
George Floyd Anniversary and Verdict
It’s been a year.
It has been a year, and what has changed?
A year since a man begged for his life from an officer of the law. A year since a woman was shot in her bed. A year since national sports leagues boycotted games. A year since we saw #saytheirnames trending on social media.
It has been a year since George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Regis Korchinski-Paquet.
What has changed?
Read more →SOLIDARITY WITH ASIAN-CANADIANS AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN PACIFIC ISLAND INCIDENTS
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.” (Matthew 37-39)
Dear Siblings in Christ,
We, the Eastern Synod, acknowledge and denounce the continued and increasing hateful, racist and targeted acts against the Asian-Canadian and Pacific Islander (ACPI) community. Specifically and especially, we denounce those actions that are perpetuated due to poisonous misinformation and anti-Asian rhetoric in relation to the COVID-19 virus, and its origin in China. Importantly, it is a matter of justice.
Read more →An Easter Greeting from Bishop Michael
Dear friends in Christ,
Grace and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Risen Savior Jesus Christ!
The Lord is Risen! He is Risen, indeed! Alleluia!
I am so grateful for this opportunity to offer an Easter greeting to you! And I do so with a heart that is bursting with gratitude.
I am so very thankful for our rostered ministers, musicians and videographers for all that they have done to proclaim God’s word and strengthen the bonds that unite us over these long months of isolation.
I am so thankful for congregational leaders who have faced the challenges of this pandemic with great courage, creativity and generosity.
And I am so grateful to you, dear disciples, for your faithfulness in ensuring that the vital work of Christ’s church has continued and in many ways grown over the course of what has felt like a year-long season of lent.
Dear church, God has blessed and equipped us to be God’s faithful people in ways none of us would have thought imaginable and I have never been prouder to be counted among your number!
May God grant you, and those dear to you, a full and rich experience of the story of Easter, not a story that we Christians explain, so much as it is a story that explains we Christians!
Christ has died.
Christ is risen.
Christ will come again!
Music is “Alleluia” by PianoDay on Audio Jungle.
Video recorded in the Schultz Chapel at the Eastern Synod Office. #myELCIC#easter2021
Luther Board Appoints Rev. Dr. Kristine Lund As New Principal-Dean
Dear Friends,
I am absolutely delighted to announce that The Rev. Dr. Kristine Lund has been chosen to lead Martin Luther University College as our Principal-Dean; the first ever woman to serve in this position! While fulfilling this role in an interim capacity for the past year, she has shown herself to be an extremely perceptive and adaptive leader! These gifts will be much needed as Luther transitions into a post-pandemic future and I have every confidence that the Luther Board of Governors has chosen the right leader for this time in the life of our beloved school!
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Lund into this new role, and carrying the entire Luther community in prayer as they continue their outstanding ministry.
Bishop Michael Pryse