The ELCA Youth Leadership Summit is an annual gathering for high school youth identified as leaders from each synod from across The ELCA. It focuses on leadership development through engaging speakers and thought leaders in key… SWCA Synod Youth at the 2016 ELCA Youth Leadership Summit
Christmas, 2016 To the People of God in the Congregations of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Grace to you and peace, in our Lord Jesus Christ! Challenging times call… Bishop Erwin’s Christmas and New Year’s Letter
To the Pastors, Deacons and People of the Southwest California Synod, Thanksgiving 2016 Grace and peace in Christ! For many, many years people of the United States have observed an annual day of Thanksgiving every… Bishop Guy Erwin’s 2016 Thanksgiving Message
Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents “Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach” November 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017 at the Resnick Pavilion 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA,… “Renaissance and Reformation” at LACMA
by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Guardian Angels Co-Founder The 9 year old girl arrived in the US from El Salvador four days ago. As she colors in a coloring book, she can’t stop talking about her brother.… Guardian Angels – Protecting the Most Vulnerable
To the Pastors, Deacons, and People of the Southwest California Synod, ELCA, from Bishop Guy Erwin: Dear friends, grace to you and peace in the Lord Jesus Christ! A long, painful, and divisive presidential campaign has… Bishop Guy Erwin’s Statement on the 2016 Election
Pastoral Letter of Bishop Guy Erwin to the people of the Southwest California Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on the upcoming elections. Dear sisters and brothers, grace and peace to you in the name of Christ! On… Pastoral Letter on the Upcoming Elections
Report of the Eighteenth Convention of the Southwest California Synodical Women’s Organization of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The weekend of October 14 – 16, the women of the Southwest California Synod… 18th SWCA WELCA Convention Report
by Bishop Guy Erwin I go to Standing Rock because I am a Christian, living out my baptismal vocation in service to Christ’s church as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I… Why do I go to Standing Rock?
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.… SWCA Synod Recovery and Spirituality Team