Love your Neighbor--help slow the COVID spread and reduce demands on the health care sector
Help slow the COVID spread and reduce demands on the health care sector so the most seriously ill people get the supportive care they need. Updated guidelines from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for community and faith-based organizations can be linked to here.
The Synod office is receiving frequent calls regarding protocols in response to COVID exposure after church gatherings. See new MDH recommendations . 
Church Workers prioritized for Vaccine BoosterA letter from an Essentia Health chaplain ~
Dear Faith Community Partners, Thank you for being a trusted and valued partner of Essentia Health. We’re so grateful for the community leadership you provide, and we recognize that role has presented myriad challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we confront a resurgence of COVID due to the highly contagious delta variant, vaccination against this virus is crucial. Many of you have reached out regarding questions related to covid-19 booster shots. At this time, community clergy [including church workers] are eligible to receive booster vaccines. The details are linked here regarding covid-19 vaccine booster shots, covid-19 testing and monoclonal antibody therapies. Synod Smart Team
(Look for updates from the late October meeting) The Synod COVID Smart Team hosted an Open Meeting. Click on the YouTube video to watch it.
In the midst of rising new case numbers in many of our communities, this meeting may be helpful to congregations as they prepare for the fall schedule.
Purpose Statement of the
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Declaration of ELCA to American Indian and Alaskan Native PeopleExpanding on the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly Declaration mandate:
“To repudiate explicitly and clearly the European-derived doctrine of discovery as an example of the ‘improper mixing of the power of the church and the power of the sword’ (Augsburg Confession Article XXVIII, Latin text), and to acknowledge and repent from this church’s complicity in the evils of colonialism in the Americas, which continue to harm tribal governments and individual tribal members.” In the renewed 2021 statement , we humbly address three groups: ELCA American Indian and Alaska Native communities, the broader Indigenous community in the U.S., and the non-Indigenous communities of the ELCA. 2021 Native American Sunday Resources
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