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Official news releases of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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ELCA cultivates students' passion into action to help end malaria
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Kelsey Nulph is a college student passionate about
joining the global fight against malaria, and she's not the only one.
Students from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
are coming up with creative ways to speak out against the disease, which
claims the life of a child every 45 seconds.
To help cultivate that passion into action, the ELCA Malaria
Campaign is awarding grants to ELCA campus ministries, colleges and
universities to equip and...
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James Nieman elected president of Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
CHICAGO (ELCA) - The Rev. James R. Nieman was elected May 14 to
serve as the 7th president of the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago. He will begin his service Aug. 1. An installation service will
be held at Rockefeller Chapel here Oct. 28. The seminary is one of eight
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
In presentations given during the presidential search process,
Nieman said that he sees the seminary as distinctly situated in the ELCA
to meet challenges...
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Called into the world, ELCA young adults put their faith into action
CHICAGO (ELCA) - Two years ago Stephanie Berkas set out to Cape
Town, South Africa, to work in a Lutheran congregation and an elementary
school there. Having lived in Minnesota for the majority of her life, she
knew she would be stepping out of her comfort zone but did not anticipate
just how life-changing her experience would be.
"My experience in South Africa was formative in that I grew up as a
person, but it was transformative in that there was a death and
resurrection for ...
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Burkat re-elected bishop of ELCA Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod
CHICAGO (ELCA) - The Rev. Claire Burkat was re-elected May 4 to
serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). She was re-
elected on the first ballot at the synod assembly in Telford, Pa.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Burkat earned a bachelor's degree in
education from City University of New York, and a Master of Divinity
degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, one of
eight EL...
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D. Jensen Seyenkulo elected bishop of Lutheran Church in Liberia
CHICAGO (ELCA) - The Rev. D. Jensen Seyenkulo was elected bishop of
the Lutheran Church in Liberia. Elected April 28 on the first ballot at
the denomination's 14th biannual convention, Seyenkulo is a program
director at the churchwide ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America (ELCA).
"This is a great honor for me, and I am humbled by this election,"
Seyenkulo said in a May 1 interview. "I have dreamt that I would be able
to return home and make a contribution to ...
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