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🌿 The Hidden Cups: A Story of Life-Giving Relationship and Creation Care
Discover how two congregations cultivated a life-giving relationship, turning a forgotten supply of vintage communion cups into a powerful act of creation care and collaboration across the Synod.
No Plastics for Lent: Other Options for Use Instead of Plastic
Gifting or donating baked goods – another instance in which plastic zip-top bags are all too convenient. Instead, try some of these other options. Learn more…
No Plastics for Lent: Compostable Plastic Benefits & Limitations
In some cases, compostable plastics may be a preferred environmental alternative but the case is complex. Learn more…
No Plastics for Lent: Plastic Wraps & Bags
You can recycle clean and dry plastic wrap and bags at many grocery stores and other retailers. Learn more…
Our Care for Creation…In Steps
As we enter this new season, we have many opportunities for sharpening our skills, and abundant support for our care for God's amazing creation. From pollinator gardens, to waste management, heat pumps to solar, insulation to impermeable surfaces, we can see creation and its climate with eyes wide open. The goal is to provide information, education, and opportunity with activities and studies to pursue during Lent and bring to organizational practices.
Creation Care focusing on the Climate of Creation
Check out NEW monthly updates from the synod creation care team.
ELCA & Synod Partnership News
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Advocacy- ELCA
Sharing stories and your voices about public policies and relevant advocacy issues.
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Churches for Middle East Peace
(CMEP)
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ELCA
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
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Faith Lens- ELCA
Weekly Bible studies that connect world events with the Bible, faith, and everyday life.
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Living Lutheran
ELCA Publication of inspirational stories, blogs and photos.
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LuMin
Lutheran Campus Ministry
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Luther Park Bible Camp
Nurturing Faith through Holy Play
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Lutheran Men in Mission
LMM Foundations is a quarterly newsletter.
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Lutheran World Federation
A global communion of churches in the Lutheran tradition working together for a just, peaceful, and reconciled world.
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Lutheran World Relief
(LWR)
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Sugar Creek Bible Camp
(SCBC)
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Sumud- ELCA
Sign up to receive action alerts about the Middle East
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WELCA Synod News
The Crosswinds is published in Spring & Fall
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Wisconsin Council of Churches
(WCC)