All Saints in Albuquerque hosted a reception on Sunday to thank and meet state legislators who serve NW Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. Members of Cross of Hope and Community of Joy joined in the conversation. From Pastor Kristin Schultz: "May this further our work together as people of faith for the common good of all in New Mexico."

Walk with our siblings in Christ in Madagascar and celebrate God's love around the globe. This trip will start late in May 2020 and travel for 16 days through much of the north of the country. 

This is not a sightseeing trip or a service trip but participants will be ambassadors from the Rocky Mountain Synod walking alongside with our friends, building relationships with seminarians, and experiencing the work of the church through our companion synods.

 

Download the application [ here ] and return it by October 31. The cost of the trip is estimated to be $5,000 per person. Refer to those listed on the documents if you have further questions. This is one of those life-changing opportunities that you should prayerfully consider and take the leap to experience.

Questions can be directed to the 2020 Madagascar Trip Planning Team:

The 2019 Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA adopted a number of changes to the Model Constitution for Congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and it has been posted to our website here . The 2019 Amendments to the Model Constitution for Congregations document is here.

The synod will provide guidance in the coming weeks about how to amend your current congregation's constitution to the new model.

YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO

Saturday, January 18, 5:00 p.m. to Monday, January 20, 11:00 a.m.

Get ready for a fun and faith-filled weekend as we delve into the transforming love of God and what it means to take that love into our everyday lives.

Get more information and register here. Get $10 off when your group registers by Oct 1.

Music holds all things together, it’s the connective tissue. With the help of the Ars Nova Singers, the Stratus Chamber Orchestra will perform for you magnificent and famous music written specifically to connect: Intermezzo from Mascagni’s Cavaleria Rusticana and Puccini’s Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly. As these pieces served to connect acts and scenes, Randall Thompson uses music to connect text, music and the human heart, setting music to the poetry of Robert Frost. Get your tickets here !

Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. (Immersive Seating)

1st Plymouth Congregational Church

3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO ( map)

Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. (Traditional Seating)

Augustana Lutheran Church

5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO ( map)

Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. (Immersive Seating)

First United Methodist Church

1421 Spruce Street, Boulder, CO ( map)

1st Plymouth Congregational Church

3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver ( map )

Join us for an evening of great music inspired by dance in Stratus’s signature immersive format where the audience sits within the orchestra, next to the musicians, enveloped in sound. Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland’s iconic homage to Americana, Debussy’s light and beautiful Sacred and Profane Dances, and sultry tangos are evening highlights.

Get your tickets here !

Roof Top Garden at The Gathering Place

1535 High St.

Denver, CO ( map )

At Urban Servant Corps, we believe that people need people – and it is in community that we are able to live more simple, faithful lives that are in service to others. As a way of expressing our mission and a human tendency to gather around food, we invite you to our LET’S EAT event!

You will have the opportunity to bid on specially-themed dinner parties and sample bites from the menus for you to EAT!

And a handful of restaurant gift cards will be available for bidding at the event. Our goal is to raise the budgeted amount our full-time volunteers are given for groceries for a year so they can EAT! Also, it’s the 10th Anniversary of Krista Kilgus serving as USC’s Executive Director. Let’s celebrate (and EAT)!

Go here for more information!

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

3rd Ave and Terry St, Longmont CO (  map  )

Mark Allan Powell is a professor of New Testament Studies at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and theologian widely recognized for his work in spiritual formation, congregational ministries and author of 20 books. He will present on   "Something to Savor: The Bible as our Book of Faith"

This Saturday event is free, a light lunch will be provided from 11:30-2:00. Please let Maria Sutton know if you are able to attend (for a lunch count) at 303-776-2800 or email at  [email protected].

Mark will follow up by preaching Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and again on Sunday, October 20 at 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

601 Montaño NW

Albuquerque, NM ( map )

This conference is open to everyone interested in learning more about advocating on public policies impacting our many neighbors living in poverty and experiencing hunger.

Breakout session topics will include advocacy basics as well as issues related to our Advocacy Agenda which are expected to come up during the 2020 New Mexico state legislative session.

Our keynote speaker is Dr. Larry Rasmussen, a resident of Santa Fe. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary. He is author of Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key(2013) and Earth Community, Earth Ethics (1996) and coauthor of Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life (1976, 1989, 2018).

$15 per person, including materials and lunch.

Register here, deadline is November 9.

Bethany Lutheran Church

4500 E Hampden Ave

Cherry Hills Village, CO ( map )

This college fair is to connect Lutheran college representatives with prospective students and their families to share all of the exciting opportunities available to them on our campuses. We will also host sessions about financial aid and how to stand out in the college application process.

Participating Colleges and Universities include:

Augustana University (Sioux Falls, SD)

California Lutheran University (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Capital University (Columbus, OH)

Concordia University Chicago (River Forest, IL)

Concordia University Irvine (Irvine, CA)

Gustavus Adolphus (St. Peter, MN)

Luther College (Decorah, IA)

Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA)

Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)

Wartburg College (Waverly, IA)

Sign up here!

Each year in Colorado, thousands of kids are unable to live with their biological parents because of abuse or neglect. Lutheran Family Services needs families who can provide temporary care until children reunify with their parent, as well as families willing to adopt children and teens if they can't return to their families.

No-cost, no-obligation, informational meetings are held throughout the Denver Metro area. Come find out if foster care is the right path for your family! Please register with Nicole at [email protected] or 303-217-5852. One-on-one meetings can also be arranged to work around your busy schedule.

Martin Luther once said: “The fewer the words, the better the prayer.” Some of the most powerful prayers have been like breathing in and breathing out… breathing in knowledge of God while reading Scripture and breathing out praise.



Breathing in God’s love and breathing out possibility that is in alignment with God’s will. Although breath and breathing seem very simple to all of us, do we really slow down in this fast-paced, high-tech world to listen to God’s Spirit? How do we establish ways to “be still and know that God is God”? Join us for this retreat time, and gathering to live into the breath and stillness of God.

Understanding ourselves helps us understand one another. Join in a weekend of exploring who you are in the safety of a community that trusts we are all created and beloved as God’s children- no exceptions.

We will explore the personality tools of the Enneagram and Meyer’s Brigg’s Type Indicator (MBTI). These will be used to deepen our self-awareness and how we can grow deeper in our relationships with God and one another. In small groups we will get a chance to allow ourselves to both know/and be known by one another. All of this takes place in the context of the beauty of God’s creation at Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp. Trusting God fully knows us and loves us, we get to be courageous and vulnerable as we learn, play, sing, dance and celebrate

Lutheran Summer Music (LSM) is the nation’s premier faith-based music academy for high school students. In addition to advanced musical instruction and numerous performance opportunities, LSM students form an intentional community, living together for four weeks on a Lutheran college campus. Since 1981, this unique and immersive program has guided the lives of young musicians, who credit LSM as the starting place for their future careers and vocations.

Click  HERE  to download a digital brochure or  email  to request hard copies from the admissions office.

You may also  nominate a student  online.

ELCA Disability Ministries introduces a new grant opportunity for ELCA congregations in diverse and divested communities for an Accessibility Reinvestment Grant. Applications will be accepted through Oct. 15, 2019, at  https://elca.fluxx.io  for up to $25,000 for small-scale property and large-impact programmatic plans. Questions can be directed to  [email protected] .

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Director for Leadership and Candidacy - Domestic Mission Unit

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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Lutheran Church of Hope - Broomfield, CO

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Zion Lutheran Church - Loveland, CO