2014 Northeastern Iowa Synod Strengthened for Assembly Witness & Service
Thanks for your partnership in ministry! Rev. Dr. Steven L. Ullestad Carla Johnsen Bishop Church Council
Thanks for your partnership in ministry! Rev. Joelle Colville-Hanson Kathryn Kleinhans Women & Justice Task Force Director for Evangelical Mission
Thanks for your partnership in ministry! Syd Brinkman Women of the ELCA
Presiding Bishop Eaton’s Four Emphases: • We are church • We are Lutheran • We are church together • We are church for the sake of the world
Mission Support Giving YOUR WEEKLY OFFERING at your congregation supports the mission of the YOUR CONGREGATION whole ELCA doing God’s work in the world. shares a portion of this offering – called Mission YOUR SYNOD Support – with the other two supports congregations and expressions of this church. rostered leaders as they Mission Support is the work in their communities lifeblood of the work that and throughout the world. God does through the ELCA. In your congregation, you support: YOUR CHURCHWIDE ORGANIZATION • Ministry within your responds to local and worldwide ministry congregation opportunities, helping to feed those who are hungry, • Local outreach in your train future leaders, and advocate for justice on community behalf of your neighbors around the globe. Some Mission Support funds may return to your congregation in the form of grants, services, programs, and resources.
Mission Support CONGREGATIONS $1.7 billion remained in 94.2% and the congregations to fund local ministries Three Expressions SYNODS $52.7 million was shared to of the ELCA 3.0% support ministries through synods In 2013, this synod shared 40% of the mission support received from CHURCHWIDE MINISTRIES the congregations of this synod for $49.9 million was sent from ministry both within the ELCA and 2.8% synods to support churchwide with our global partners. This ministries amounted to $601,910.
Stories of Faith in Action • Stories of Faith in Action — Shows people whose lives have been touched by ELCA ministries • Congregational offerings make these ministries possible. • Tells how offerings make a difference domestically and internationally.
Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton We Are Church Together
Waverly Detroit Puerto Rico
New and Renewing Congregations As a church together, we planted 41 new congregations in 2013, 65% of them in multicultural communities. Here in Northeastern Iowa Synod, we are partners together with two new starts: New Hope Lutheran Church in Farley, and Peace Lutheran Fellowship in Parkersburg.
Companion Synod Relationships Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia Evangelical Lutheran German Evangelical Church in Namibia Lutheran Church
Building Capacity for Evangelical Witness and Service in the World 237 missionaries 60 Young Adults in Global Mission 49 countries one in the body of Christ
Missionaries Sponsored by Northeastern Iowa Synod Congregations Bradn Buerkle - Russia Steven & Bethany Friberg Tanzania Mary Beth & Bayo Oyebade Nigeria Tanya & Austin Propst Madagascar Jeff VonWald & Julie Rossate Palestine & West Bank
Young Adults in Global Mission Sponsored by Northeastern Iowa Synod Congregations in Companion Synod in Hungary Meredith Massey Ole Schenk Piliscsaba Szarvas Chelsea Paulsen Thad Titze Szombathely Gorogszallas
In 2013… • You helped launch congregational renewal efforts in 155 congregations . • Supported 224 students at eight ELCA seminaries (ELCA Fund for Leaders). • Awarded 61 scholarships to young international leaders from our global companion churches.
In 2013… • You supported innovative solutions to hunger and poverty in nearly 60 countries and more than 350 programs in the U.S. (ELCA World Hunger). • Worked to help end deaths from malaria in 13 countries in Africa (ELCA Malaria Campaign).
Accompanying Congregations ELCA Mission Investment Fund Northeastern Iowa Synod • $9 Million Invested • $7.3 Million in Loans 93 of your congregations and ministries, plus 155 individuals hold over $9 million in MIF investments.
ELCA World Hunger
ELCA World Hunger Total giving for World Hunger for 2013 was $18.6 million. Thank you for this synod’s gifts of over $355,000 to World Hunger in 2013. The state of Iowa also received 16 domestic hunger grants totaling $34,800. Right here in your synod, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville is one of those programs. The “Barnabas Uplift” program at St. Paul’s recruits participants, particularly women, some with children, to become more self-sufficient by acquiring training and/or more self- sustaining employment opportunities. Many of these women and their families are in need of more skills to lift themselves up and out of poverty. The program helps clients identify obstacles and barriers to more gainful employment and helps by paying class registration costs, etc. The program is designed to address root causes of hunger by ending under- and unemployment.
ELCA Disaster Response In addition, last year, ELCA members gave $9.9 million for disaster response – from Missouri to the Philippines to the Central African Republic, we are responding together. Over $133,000 from this synod.
In August 2011, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted overwhelmingly to roll out the campaign to raise $15 million to help end Malaria in Africa. Thus far, we’ve raised over $11 million in cash and pledges. Since the beginning of the campaign, Northeastern Iowa Synod has given over $437,000, far exceeding your goal of $250,000!
Fund for Leaders Scholarship Recipients Minna Quint Wartburg College Seth Rumage Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Fund for Leaders Full Scholarship Recipients Daniel Hanson Paul Waterman Luther College Wartburg College
ELCA Youth Gathering • Detroit, Michigan • July 15-19, 2015
Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA
Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA • Publicly launched Feb. 1, 2014. • Approved by 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. • Five-year, $198 million campaign. • Through The Campaign for the ELCA, we can: o Invest in the future of this church o Expand our mission capacity o Achieve things on a scale and scope that we could never do alone
Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA For more information on the campaign: • Visit www.ELCA.org/campaign, • Call 800-638-3522 (ext. 2612) or, • Email us at campaignforELCA@elca.org
Thank you!
2014 Synod Assembly Report The Rev. Dr. Wyvetta Bullock
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