Ministries in Action
Shoulder-to-Shoulder 2007
![]() | On June 16, 2007, a group of six youth and young adults ventured to El Paso, Texas on the "Shoulder-to-Shoulder Border Immersion Experience" with Pastor Paul Nelson and Kay Kinkel, AIM and Assistant to the Bishop. |
Batiking Workshop
![]() | May 2007 Ann Thye presents a marketing session at the Same batiking workshop. |
Shoulder-to-Shoulder 2006
![]() | June 2006 - Through a generous grant provided by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, youth and young adults spent part of their summer immersed in a "Shoulder-to-Shoulder" learning opportunity with youth members from Salam Arabic Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, New York. Salam Lutheran was one of the churches greatly affected by the events of September 11, 2001. |
Gonja Lutheran Hospital
| June 2005 - Mary Hovda (left) and Leah Maxwell (right) stand in front of Gonja Lutheran Hospital with Tanzanian children. Mary and Leah worked at the hospital for six weeks building relationships and prioritizing needs for a medical supply shipment. Mary and Leah remarked, "...we doubted anything we could do would change a thing. Instead of changing lives, our lives were changed..." |
Synod Assembly 2003
![]() | June 2003 - Synod Assembly 2003 Members of Bremwood Lutheran Services staff give the thumbs up as they load donated towels and toiletries into a truck. It took at least two trips to deliver the donated supplies to the social service agency's campus. Students and staff from the agency spoke at two presentations following campus tours and a dessert reception Friday evening |
| News and Information from the 2003 Synod Assembly | |
Bishop Hanson in Iowa City
![]() | December 2002 - ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson addresses an Iowa City audience. |
Synod Christmas Special 2002
| December 2002 Synod Produces Christmas Special |
Walt Wangerin Speaks in Iowa City
| October 8, 2002 Walt Wangerin speaks with area Lutherans at a reception at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Iowa City on Tuesday, October 8. Wangerin also appeared at rallies on synod territory in West Des Moines, Ottumwa, and Cedar Rapids. For more information about the award-winning author's appearances, visit www.elca.org/lv. |
Voices of Pare
| June 6, 2002 The Voices of Pare choir visited Iowa in June, 2002, as part of a companion-synod exchange between the Southeastern Iowa Synod, ELCA, and the Pare Diocese of of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. |
Order or listen to the live recording made during their visit
Synod Assembly 2002
| June 2002 The Southeastern Iowa Synod 2002 assembly was held at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa in June. |
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