ELCA News Releases

ELCA Prayer Ventures

  • September 2
    Thank God for the progress made by Pastor Youa Kao Vang, Ascension Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis., after a bone marrow transplant. May he continue on his road to recovery and continue his faithful service.

Daily Bible Verse

Daily Bible Reading

  • Thursday, September 02, 2010 [Philippians 2:25-30 (NRSV)]
    Welcome a faithful servant home

    Still, I think it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus - my brother and co-worker and fellow soldier, your messenger and minister to my need; for he has been longing for all of you, and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another. I am the more eager to send him, therefore, in order that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. Welcome him then in the Lord with all joy, and honor such people, because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.


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Monday, 31 August 2009 19:03

About the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Resurrection people who pray first, walk together and change lives.

We are more than 70,000  people connected to Jesus through Holy Baptism, gathered in hope around Word and Sacrament in more than 185 congregations, served by more than 260 rostered leaders who proclaim that Jesus lives and who trust that the Holy Spirit is at work transforming us, our church and our world.

And before you leave we encourage you to join us in prayer ... Most gracious God, thank you for all who find this website. Let them know of your love in Jesus and fill them with the gift of your own Holy Spirit. Help us all to use the gifts that you have given in ways that proclaim your saving grace and build up your people. And we pray that we might, with others, be channels of your mercy, peace and justice. Amen.

Yours in Christ,

The Rev. Marie C. Jerge, Bishop, Upstate New York Synod

The Upstate New York Synod is a partner synod of the Central/Southern Illinois Synod. We are also companion synods with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zambia and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe.
 
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Sundays and Festivals (Lectionary)

Texts and liturigcal colors for upcoming dates from the Revised Common Lectionary
  • Sunday, September 5, 2010
    Lectionary 23 / Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)
    Sunday, September 5

    First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20
    Walk in the way of life and hold fast to God
    First Reading (Semi-continuous): Jeremiah 18:1-11
    Like a potter, the Lord will reshape Israel
    Psalm: Psalm 1
    Their delight is in the law of the LORD. (Ps. 1:2)
    Psalm (Semi-continuous): Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 (Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 NRSV)
    You have searched me out and known me. (Ps. 139:1)
    Second Reading: Philemon 1-21
    Paul says: Receive Onesimus as a coworker
    Gospel: Luke 14:25-33
    Jesus says: Disciples, give up your possessions and carry the cross
    Liturgical Color: Green

Festivals and Commemorations

Lesser festivals and commemorations of the Church
  • Thursday, September 2, 2010
    Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, bishop, renewer of the church, died 1872
    Thursday, September 2

    Grundtvig was, with Søren Kierkegaard, one of the two great Danish theologians of the nineteenth century. As a pastor, he battled the prevalent idea that Christianity was more a philosophy than divine revelation. He wrote over a thousand hymns.
  • Thursday, September 9, 2010
    Peter Claver, priest, missionary to Colombia, died 1654
    Thursday, September 9

    Born into Spanish nobility, Claver became a Jesuit missionary, and served in present-day Colombia. His ministry was focused on the slaves that arrived there. He gave them food and medicine, learned their dialects, and taught them Christianity.