ELCA Youth Gathering
ELCA Youth Gathering
Houston, TX
June 27 – July 1, 2018
Every three years, 30,000 high school youth and their adult leaders from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) gather for a week of faith formation known as the Gathering. Through days spent in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service, and fellowship, young people grow in faith and are challenged and inspired to live their faith in their daily lives.
For those youth who want to go but don’t have a group, Bishop Gronberg will be leading a Synod group. Contact Janelle Miller at janellemiller@yahoo.com or 817-726-7031 for details.
Online registration opens in September!
Worship FAQs
The ELCA worship staff regularly receive a number of similar inquiries on worship-related topics from across the church via email and phone.
You can find responses to topics ranging from Holy Communion and worship planning to music and ecumenical and inter-religious questions. The responses you find on this resource page should not be considered the final word on the topic but rather as useful guides to be considered with sensitivity to your local context and traditions. Many of the responses link to other frequently asked questions that may be useful as you dig deeper.
If you would like additional information or do not find the question that you are seeking an answer to, we invite you to email worship@elca.org.
Featured Resource for June
Watch author Brian McLaren give a presentation on Finding Our Way Again.
Click here for more information about his book.
Save the Date
Sacred Music & Worship Summer Workshop
CHALLENGES TO WORSHIP IN A POST-ELECTION CHURCH
A Workshop for Clergy, Musicians, and Laypersons
Sunday-Monday, June 11-12, 2017
Co-Sponsored by The Church Music Institute, Association for Reformed & Liturgical Worship, and Brite Divinity School
Hosted by Zion Lutheran Church, 6121 E Lovers Ln, Dallas, TX 75214
Click here for more information online and to register.
Click here for a brochure including registration information.
Where in the world is?
Bishop Gronberg:
- Jun 10 – First Communion and Confirmation celebration, First Sagrada Familia, Garland
Pr. Totzke:
- Jun 11 – Installation service, Grace, Carrollton
Pra. Bañales:
- Jun 5 – New & Renewal Team meeting, Good Shepherd, Irving
- Jun 6 – Latin@ Conference meeting, Holy Trinity, Irving, then St. Luke’s, Richardson
- Jun 7 – Metroplex West Mission Conference meeting, Calvary, Richland Hills
- Jun 8 – Church of the Damascus Road board meeting, Abiding Grace, Southlake, then Community of Hope, Fort Worth
- Jun 10 – First Communion and Confirmation celebration, First Sagrada Familia, Garland
- Jun 11 – Installation service, Grace, Carrollton
Upcoming Events
- Jun. 10: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Jun. 11-16: Building Congregational Capacity for Hispanic Ministry (Intensive II)
- Jun. 17: ELCA’s Faith, Sexism, and Justice: Conversations Toward a Social Statement
- Jun. 17: WELCA meeting of the West Texas Conference
- Jul. 8: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Jul. 13-16: “all anew” Women of the ELCA Tenth Triennial Gathering
- Jul. 21-23: The Bold Gathering (Lutheran Men in Mission)
- Aug. 7-10: ELCA Rostered Ministers Gathering
- Aug. 12: Public Witness Team for Peace and Justice monthly meeting
- Aug. 12: NT-NL SWO Retreat
- Aug. 19: MEF Board meeting
- Aug. 26: NT-NL SWO Board Meeting
Access our full online Calendar here. Updates made regularly.
Do you have news or announcements to share? Please submit to the Synod office (MissionOffice@ntnl.org) for consideration for our next NT-NL News.
Looking for information in past NT-NL News? Find NT-NL News archives here!