Dear friends in Christ,

Sometime during the past week—filled with a trip to Arizona for our first call pastors and deacons retreat, plans for this week’s staff retreat and our upcoming synod assembly, phone calls and meetings with rostered ministers, and many emails—I suddenly realized that it has been one year since my election as bishop of the Rocky Mountain Synod. In the first nine months serving in this call, I have been humbled, awed, and overwhelmed with joy (and emails!) by the blessing of being your bishop. I am excited to see our Office of the Bishop team coming together and to be turning our energy and attention to how God is calling us into the future. In all the troubles and the joys of the world, and this ministry, two things have continued to be true: Dios está aquí—God is here! And we are not alone.

God is here, in the people and ministries of this synod. God is with us, in all that we face. And we are not required, expected, or designed to go it alone. God calls us into community. As we look ahead to our calling as this part of Christ’s church to proclaim and embody that good news for the sake of the world, we need the diverse gifts that this community brings.

That’s why, this week, I’d like to highlight the invitation for you to nominate people to join some of the synod teams who carry out our shared ministry all year long. In a few weeks, we will be electing a new synod vice president, and members of our synod committees for Consultation, Discipline, Campus Ministry, and Nominating. We need your help in discerning lay and rostered leaders in this synod who are called to these roles.

The synod vice-president is the highest elected lay leader in the synod. They must be a layperson and member of a congregation in this synod, who has the capacity and gifts to chair the synod council and to collaborate with the Bishop of the Synod in the formation and implementation of the synod’s vision and mission; and this position cannot be compensated. The other committees, while requiring a lesser time commitment, are still crucial to ensuring the transparency and collaborative, representative leadership this synod has lifted up as a high value.

I hope you’ll take a moment to pray and to nominate those you feel can serve well in these positions, for the sake of our Gospel call together. And, I hope you know that I’m praying for you and for your community too, for the ways you live out that Gospel call where you are.

In Christ,

+Bishop Meghan

Synod Council Position

• Council Vice President

Committee Positions

• Member of the Consultation Committee (2 lay positions to be filled)
• Member of the Discipline Committee (1 position to be filled) 
• Member of the Campus Ministry Committee (1 layperson or rostered minister) 
• Members of the Nominating Committee (6 members reflecting a balance of gender, rostered and lay persons, a multi-cultural presence, and a geographical balance according to the standard representational mandate of the ELCA) 

The 2025 Rocky Mountain Synod Assembly theme is “Dios esta aqui. God is here.” We know that God is everywhere and we invite you to share your story of how God is present in your life and in your context. 

Click HERE or the button below to share a few sentences and if you'd like, a corresponding picture of how God is with you.

With your permission, your stories and photos may be featured during the Assembly in Albuquerque, May 22–24, and in Synod communications like the eConnection and social media.

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