December 2025

Thank you for adding SALT to your gift for Giving Tuesday!

We are thankful to all of our donors for giving to Women of the ELCA through the SALT Appeal for Giving Tuesday! We are still honoring the $50,000 matching gift from our generous donor, Churchwide board member, Julia Hong Sabella, until January. Consider adding your name to this list of donors and make your gift today! This generous match will help us achieve our appeal goal of $250,000.

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Join ELCA AMMPARO for a teach-in about Immigration Activism

Stories about immigrants, refugees, borders, and deportation are in our news daily and impact our lives and communities in deeply personal ways. How can we take meaningful action in our communities? We will share some ideas. Join us as we host a webinar with ELCA AMMPARO, Wednesday, December 17 at 6pm central.

Join us for the 2025 Blue Christmas Service

Join Women of the ELCA for our annual Blue Christmas Service via Zoom. This service takes place on the Winter Solstice, Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 7 pm (CST) which is the longest night of the year.

Early bird registration savings for the Triennial Gathering available until January 5

Register now for the EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Invite your daughters, granddaughters, sisters, and friends. Share the Gathering and remind them that they are WORTHY!

Register now for inspiration, service, learning, and dancing! Visit the website, click 'Register here,' book your hotel, and plan your Des Moines trip today.

Help us spread the word by sharing event details with your congregation and more. Everyone is invited! Visit our website for tools to promote the Gathering.

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New advocacy tools to #EndHumanTrafficking

Since 2005, Women of the ELCA has been actively working to end human trafficking.

At the Eleventh Triennial Convention (2021), the voting members adopted a resolution setting the four weeks prior to the annual NFL Super Bowl as a time of prayer to end human trafficking. This year, the Rev. Staci Stought has created materials for congregations to use for prayer and advocacy.

Visit the Human Trafficking Advocacy page to download Daily Prayers, Worship materials and a Toolkit for Church Leaders.

January Boldcafe B.Y.O.D.

Kick off the new year by joining us for our next Boldcafe Monthly Dinner, Thursday, January 15, at 7pm CST, hosted by the Rev. Angela T. Khabeb! She will lead our discussion about love in the new year. Granddaughters, daughters, nieces, etc., are encouraged to join! Participants are all encouraged to bring a favorite stuffed toy or doll. Download a special coloring sheet to use during our time together.

Watch the 2025 Thankoffering Worship Service

Did you catch the 2025 Women of the ELCA (WELCA) Thankoffering worship service in November? If not, watch the recording online now by clicking this link.

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Nominate a bold leader to be on the Women of the ELCA Churchwide Board!

Nominations for the Churchwide Board of Women of the ELCA are open until February 20, 2026! Voting members (elected from 64 Synodical Women's Organizations) at the Thirteenth Triennial Convention will elect leaders for the 2026-2029 triennium.

Access the Nominations Form.

Gather Devotional: Practicing Advent imagination

You are invited to experience the Advent Devotional, "Practicing Advent imagination: Matthew’s dreamers and Isaiah’s visions” by the Rev. Sara Olson-Smith.

We cannot build a new future that we cannot imagine. The long nights of Advent gift us with time to dream. This study will offer us ways of imagining God’s future for us and all creation through the dreams of Joseph, the Three Wise Men and Isaiah.

Download the Avent De votional
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