Upcoming Events
Consider Your Calling Weekend March 2026
Offers You The Opportunity To: Explore vocation and discernment with others Learn about Wartburg’s degree programs and the various pathways to earn your degree Worship with the Wartburg Seminary community Meet current faculty, staff, and students, hearing their stories and experiences Share in meals and fellowship, including social events with the community Experience Wartburg Seminary…
From Question to Calling: Seminary Discernment for LGBTQ+ Prospective Students & Allies
Join the Seminaries of the ELCA for a virtual fireside chat! Hear from current pastors, deacons and faith leaders as we explore seminary discernment and resources for LGBTQ+ prospective students.
7 PM Central Time
One Year to Live Retreat: Lutheran Men in Mission
One Year to Live is NOT your typical men’s retreat!
WELCA Triennial Gathering
Welcome to the Registration for the Women of the ELCA - 13th Triennial Gathering
July 16 - 19, 2026
At the Iowa Event Center Des Moines Convention Center, Des Moines Iowa
National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools
On September 30, the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, we invite you to:
Wear orange in solidarity
Learn more through the ELCA’s Truth Seeking and Truth Telling Initiative
ELCA National Day of Racial Healing
In partnership with Augsburg Fortress, the ELCA is observing the 2026 National Day of Racial Healing with a free online and in-person evening program on Tuesday, Jan. 20. “Just Us Narratives: A Night of Centering Multiracial Voices Across the ELCA” will highlight storytelling as a sacred practice that invites deep listening and reflection.
Young Adults in Global Mission Conversation
Learn more about Young Adults in Global Mission with El Egbert, who recently returned to the US after spending a year in Central Europe through the ELCA’s Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) program. She is excited to be visiting LuMin La Crosse as a representative of Young Adult Communities within the churchwide organization to talk more about my experience and other ministry opportunities for young adults.
Webinar: Rethinking Addiction A Faith Leader’s Guide
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, noon centralThis session invites participants into a reflective exploration of those underlying paradigms. Using a guided survey tool, we’ll examine the moral, medical, and social lenses that influence how we understand and respond to substance use. We’ll also share insights and themes from using this tool with professionals and recovery advocates across the country, highlighting opportunities for healing, inclusion, and informed pastoral care.
WELCA Global Engagement Travel Series
This experience is perfect for health care providers who would like to lend a hand and learn alongside this busy hub that pivots to meet needs as they arise. Practicing accompaniment (coming along side) will nurture time for sharing stories and skills as well as experiencing the view from the other side of the border. Along with your daily work you will experience community in worship, fellowship, bible study, the marketplace and dancing on the plaza. Your home away from home will be a familiar chain hotel in the area.
Queer Renewal: Wilderness & Homecoming at Holden Village
Village and explore Queer Renewal in times that challenge us, that call for our transformation & resiliency. How might being surrounded by wilderness, metaphorical & actual, provide us a way home to ourselves & to support we need in community? Whether through discussion forums with fellow attendees, through making art, hiking, sharing talents, or reciting poetry outdoors by a fire, there’s a place at this retreat for your Queer self to thrive.
Lutheran Men in Mission: One Year to Live Retreat
Lutheran Men in Mission, “One Year to Live” Retreat is coming to Sugar Creek Bible Camp this fall: September 19-21, 2025
2025 ELCA World Hunger Leadership Gathering
The 2025 ELCA World Hunger Leadership Gathering will be held in Columbus, Ohio, Sep. 18-21. This year’s event will center on Micah 6:8: “[God] has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?” This year’s theme is “Do. Love. Move. Toward a World Without Hunger.”
RECLAIM: Young Adult Cohort
If you’re a young adult (18-35), you are invited to join this young adult cohort for a shared experience that explores where you are and where you want to bein the church.
Check out community ministry opportunities from the La Crosse Area Synod’s 72 ministry sites.
Want to have your event added?
Contact Brianna Iverson at the synod office.