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How can we promote healing and peace?
We've entered the season of Advent where we wait for the coming of the Prince of Peace. How might we be peacemakers in our communities? How do we as Women of the ELCA respond to the great divide that grows wider every day in our society? Read Executive Director Linda Post Bushkofsky's counsel. To promote peace within her own soul, Bushkofsky is taking a sabbatical to read, write and quilt. She returns to the office in early March.
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'IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE'
What do Women of the ELCA, two Catholic sisters, a human trafficking survivor and a police lieutenant have in common? They want to put an end to human trafficking. Read the article.
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ADVENT: THE HIDDEN SEASON
Advent is the hidden season. It's so easy to miss between Thanksgiving and Christmas, what with the decorations going up all over town even before we've finished our first piece of pumpkin pie. Read the stewardship devotional.
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DEVOTIONAL: PREPARING THE WAY
A c
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e student shares ways you can prepare for Christmas during Advent on campus or at home. The four-week devotional in Cafe, Women of the ELCA's online magazine for young adult women, will help guide your spiritual practices throughout this month.
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DECEMBER 1 IS WORLD AIDS DAY
Claudia Soliette López Ortega is a 26-year-old Lutheran pastor who believes children's rights and Christmas parties go together. "It breaks my heart to hear stories about children who have never been invited to a birthday party because the neighbors know their HIV status or because they know that they are related to someone with HIV," Claudia said.
Read more here.
Every issue of Gather is filled with articles that enlighten and illuminate. Subscribe today! And give a subscription to a woman you love for Christmas.
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EVERY DAY IS GIVING TUESDAY
If you love
Women of the ELCA, please make a generous undesignated gift to support the organization. Do it now, while you're thinking about it!
Click the "Donate now" button below and choose "Where Needed Most." And thank you! Your generosity makes a real difference in people's lives -- including your own.
You can also help Women of the ELCA support women and girls by giving monthly to our
Faithful Friends program.
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TIME TO APPLY FOR A SEED GRANT
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GET YOUR REGISTRATION ON!
 In a few short months, those of you who have registered for the Tenth Triennial Gathering will worship, sing and praise God together.
As of Nov. 29, the synodical women's organizations that lead the registration pack are Western North Dakota (3A); Southwestern Minnesota (3F); Northeastern Minnesota (3E); Southeastern Iowa (5D); and Southeastern Minnesota (3F). Where does your SWO stand? Check here.
Those of you who haven't registered still have time before the Jan. 6 early bird deadline. But just barely! So go to welcatg.org to register online now.
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You have this many days, hours, minutes and seconds before early registration closes!
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MULTIPLE MEANINGS: LEARNING FROM OTHER INTERPRETATIONS
 At the Tenth Triennial Gathering in Minneapolis, Minn., July 13-16, Mark Allen Powell will lead a workshop that examines how well-known Bible stories are understood in Africa, Russia, Latin America and the United States. Participants will reflect on how the Bible speaks differently to people in different contexts. These studies will be explored in more detail in the January through April 2017 Bible study of Gather magazine. Powell is professor of New Testament, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. Learn more about other workshops.
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SO MANY ITEMS, SO LITTLE TIME
 Christmas is just around the corner. You can support the ministries of Women of the ELCA by shopping for jewelry, aprons, mugs, shawls and
Gather's 32-page coloring devotional. Great stuff is just
a click away in our e-store. Show the women in your life you care for them and Women of the ELCA.
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