Upcoming Events & Opportunities

Annual Report Cover Available

The 2021 ELCA Annual Report cover is now available as a download for your congregational reports. It includes an inspiring message from Bishop Eaton, a beautiful litany to use at an annual meeting as well as highlights of several of the SOFIA stories! You can use the back page to tell your congregation's stories as church together in a time of change.

Let Lutheran World Relief help you this Advent

Lutheran World Relief has created FREE, easy-to-use resources based on the RCL Advent texts from the Gospel of Luke, all available at lwr.org/advent:

4 weeks of new sermon illustrations (complete with photos and video)
4 powerful videos to highlight your congregation’s love in action around the world
4-week small group Bible study guide
Candle lighting litany

Invite your congregation to experience A Season of Hope this Advent

Youth Ministries

#CaliSTRONG information here

Boundless Youth Gathering information here

Justice in Action: Supporting Incarcerated Youth

Thursday, October 14 at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom

The Peace and Justice Team at Mount Cross Lutheran Church in Camarillo invites the community to a Zoom panel discussion on the needs of incarcerated youth in Ventura County. We will hear from panelists who work locally with youth before, during, and after incarceration and learn about opportunities to advance restorative justice in our community. Please join us October 14 at 6:00 p.m.

Join Zoom here: https://bit.ly/JusticeAction

Meeting ID: 818 6149 8062

Passcode: 122357

For more information, email office@mountcross.com or call 805-482-3847.

WELCA's "Loving Connections" will be held from Friday evening, October 15 through Saturday, October 16, 2021. The Bible Study leader is Pastor Julie Morris, and the Worship and Prayer leader is Pastor Tracy Williams.

There will be three workshops presented:

(1) Connections with women in congregations

(2) Connecting with diverse women through stories

(3) Loving Connections through anti-racism dialogue with Pastor Joseph Castanada.

TO REGISTER FOR THE CONVENTION: Send an email to Julie Jensen at juliejnsn1@roadrunner.com or by mail to Julie Jensen, 921 Gill Ave., Port Hueneme, CA 93041. Include your name, contact info (address, email, phone #), your church and city and whether you are a guest or delegate. Julie will send you the information for the convention along with the Zoom link.

Would you like to be a WELCA Triennial Delegate?

The WELCA Churchwide Triennial Convention and Gathering in Phoenix, Arizona is planned for September, 2023. We need two delegates elected at our Zoom convention this next week who will represent us in Phoenix.

At least one delegate must be a person of color or someone whose first language is other than English, and at least one delegate must be a first timer to the convention.

If you would like to be a delegate nominee, please send the following information to Beth Bunnell at bethbunnell@yahoo.com.

1) Your name, address, phone, email, church and city.

2) Your ethnicity and whether you have been to a convention before.

Lutheran World Relief Ingathering Quilt Pick Up!

Hill Avenue Grace Lutheran Church

October 20, 2021

from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Do you love to quilt and want to give back to those in need?

Making Lutheran World Relief Mission Quilts is a tangible way to express love to our neighbors in need. Quilts can be used as warm bedding, simple tents or floor coverings. Each one reflects God's loving presence in a world rife with suffering.

Lutheran World Relief Mission Quilts will be collecting quilts

on Wednesday. October 20, 2021

Hill Avenue Grace Lutheran

73 N. Hill Ave.

Pasadena, CA 91106

For more information about the ingathering,

please contact Maria Gomez at 626-564-0191 x 1127

National CROP Hunger Walk for World Food Day

October 16, 2021

Join us for the 2021 National CROP Hunger Walk on World Food Day, October 16th and end hunger in the U.S. and around the world!

Walk on your treadmill, in your neighborhood, in a park with friends – you choose the location and the experience.

Walk one day - 3.7 miles (the average distance a woman walks for water) or take the Weekend Challenge and walk 11.1 miles (3.7 miles for 3 days).

Every step you take, every dollar you raise makes the walk shorter for neighbors in need by providing clean water, emergency food as well as livelihoods and access to education.

Click here to sign up!

Contact info@cwsglobal.org for more info.

Download Walk for Peace flyer here

This web-based three-part training in the arts of faith-rooted community organizing for climate justice will equip participants with skills, knowledge, spiritual grounding, and a community of support for organizing to address the climate crisis in ways that build racial and economic equity.

A 3-day training session is followed by a mentored 12–week practice phase and a second training session of 2 days. The mentored section includes regular (weekly or bi-weekly cohort gatherings for support and building a network of on-going support).

Contact Kelly Marciales for application and questions: kmarciales@plts.edu

DEADLINE TO APPLY: OCTOBER 31