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Bishop Aitken’s Prayer:
For our Country and Immigrants
Blessed are you, O Holy Trinity;
Blessed are you for your good creation, the diversity of people you have created and can't stop loving, your gracious redemption in Christ, and your gifts of the Spirit. We give you thanks for joining the whole Christian Church to the Risen Jesus, who is being formed in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Stir up in us, the power of your Spirit and enable us to look around with the eyes of our heart enlightened, so that we may join our Lord in blessing the stranger, this country, and the world. Create in us a Christ-like heart for asylum seekers fleeing violence who hope and pray for refuge in this country with its wealth of resources. Grant strength and courage to every citizen in the USA and for this country’s leaders, that fear will be replaced by compassion, that the degradation of refugees through words and actions will be replaced by a new spirit of love, respect, decency and boldness to do what is right. We pray for the children who cannot understand why they are separated from their families at our borders, for parents, weeping for their children who have been taken from them, and who are driven to despair by misguided rules that go against every honorable parental impulse to protect them. For Christ’s sake may we be Christ for these, our neighbors. And may we experience the true abundant life of joy that comes as we live like Jesus towards all people, no exceptions. +Bishop Thomas M. Aitken
PS: Join me in giving a gift to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services. Rooted in our faith and the values upon which this country was built, LIRS works with communities across the nation to welcome people seeking refuge in America. When you give to LIRS, you help the only organization that sees refugee and migrant children through the entire process of family reunification. Your donation helps when they are released to us. Your gift helps LIRS find safe places for the children to stay. Your contribution helps to reunite children with their families. And your gift helps find safe, loving foster families to care for the children who cannot be reunited with their parents or a family member.
Go to:
https://tinyurl.com/y4xma7lp
Blessed are you for your good creation, the diversity of people you have created and can't stop loving, your gracious redemption in Christ, and your gifts of the Spirit. We give you thanks for joining the whole Christian Church to the Risen Jesus, who is being formed in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Stir up in us, the power of your Spirit and enable us to look around with the eyes of our heart enlightened, so that we may join our Lord in blessing the stranger, this country, and the world. Create in us a Christ-like heart for asylum seekers fleeing violence who hope and pray for refuge in this country with its wealth of resources. Grant strength and courage to every citizen in the USA and for this country’s leaders, that fear will be replaced by compassion, that the degradation of refugees through words and actions will be replaced by a new spirit of love, respect, decency and boldness to do what is right. We pray for the children who cannot understand why they are separated from their families at our borders, for parents, weeping for their children who have been taken from them, and who are driven to despair by misguided rules that go against every honorable parental impulse to protect them. For Christ’s sake may we be Christ for these, our neighbors. And may we experience the true abundant life of joy that comes as we live like Jesus towards all people, no exceptions. +Bishop Thomas M. Aitken
PS: Join me in giving a gift to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services. Rooted in our faith and the values upon which this country was built, LIRS works with communities across the nation to welcome people seeking refuge in America. When you give to LIRS, you help the only organization that sees refugee and migrant children through the entire process of family reunification. Your donation helps when they are released to us. Your gift helps LIRS find safe places for the children to stay. Your contribution helps to reunite children with their families. And your gift helps find safe, loving foster families to care for the children who cannot be reunited with their parents or a family member.
Go to:
https://tinyurl.com/y4xma7lp
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ELCA Vision
Claimed by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we are a new creation through God’s living word by the power of the Holy Spirit;
Gathered by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we will live among God’s faithful people, hear God’s word and share Christ’s supper;
Sent by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we will proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed, serve all people following the example of our Lord Jesus, and strive for justice and peace in all the world.
ELCA Mission
Marked with the cross of Christ forever, we are claimed, gathered and sent for the sake of the world. This is the mission statement of the ELCA. As members of the ELCA, we believe that we are freed in Christ to serve and love our neighbor.
ELCA Advocacy
Website: ELCA.org/advocacy
Email: washingtonoffice@elca.org
Social Media: /ELCAAdvocacy
ELCA Racial Justice Ministries
Website: www.ELCA.org/Our-Work/Publicly-Engaged-Church/Racial-Justice-Ministries
ELCA Young Adult Ministry
Website: www.ELCA.org/Our-Work/Congregations-and-Synods/Young-Adult-Ministry
Social Media: /ELCAYoungAdults
How one Lutheran congregation moved out of “building mentality”
https://youtu.be/trgt28JGPes
New Life Lutheran Church, Texas
Claimed by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we are a new creation through God’s living word by the power of the Holy Spirit;
Gathered by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we will live among God’s faithful people, hear God’s word and share Christ’s supper;
Sent by God’s grace for the sake of the world, we will proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed, serve all people following the example of our Lord Jesus, and strive for justice and peace in all the world.
ELCA Mission
Marked with the cross of Christ forever, we are claimed, gathered and sent for the sake of the world. This is the mission statement of the ELCA. As members of the ELCA, we believe that we are freed in Christ to serve and love our neighbor.
ELCA Advocacy
Website: ELCA.org/advocacy
Email: washingtonoffice@elca.org
Social Media: /ELCAAdvocacy
ELCA Racial Justice Ministries
Website: www.ELCA.org/Our-Work/Publicly-Engaged-Church/Racial-Justice-Ministries
ELCA Young Adult Ministry
Website: www.ELCA.org/Our-Work/Congregations-and-Synods/Young-Adult-Ministry
Social Media: /ELCAYoungAdults
How one Lutheran congregation moved out of “building mentality”
https://youtu.be/trgt28JGPes
New Life Lutheran Church, Texas
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