ELCA Coaching Network - Weekly Sessions

Every Wednesday at 11am (Pacific)

All lay leaders and rostered ministers are invited to join this weekly opportunity to hear from various leaders across the Church - and share in small group conversation - on the theme of COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP.

Learn more about this week's topic and get the registration link here:  https://www.elcacoaching.org/

Addiction & Women with Caroline Beidler

Thursday, March 30, 10am online

One-hour free webinar from the Center of Addiction and Faith

Invited guest is Caroline Beidler, author, Recovery Advocate, and founder of Bright Story Shine. When it comes to addiction & treatment, women face a unique set of challenges, a history of trauma, and barriers to effective treatment. Caroline will share her personal story and lessons she's learned in creating space for women in recovery. She will join Pastor Ed Treat & CAF board member Tim McMahan King in discussing the historical challenges women face and how best to develop outreach & programming to support women.

The webinar is for everyone, clergy and lay. Register HERE

LiVE Community Retreat:

Spirit-Stirring & Creation Care

Saturday, April 1, 9am-3pm

at First Lutheran Church, Bothell

Lunch included!



The call of the Spirit is to renew the face of the earth. This call comes with renewing our attention to creation as the very partner with whom God is bringing forth new life in this world. Far too long, many Christians have related to the land, and its ancestors, with domination and neglect. This day-long retreat focuses on how to restore dignity in relationship to creation, to rethink and practice faithfully a life of faith with creation at the center of our imaginations as local congregations. This retreat is a primer to the 5-week LiVE course in April and May with Deacon Jessica Zimmerle. 



Learn how to participate here:

https://www.lutheransnw.org/events/spirit-stirring-and-creation-care/2023-04-01

Compass Housing Alliance Gala

Saturday, April 1, 6:30pm

MOHAI, 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle

Join us as we celebrate the creativity and resilience of the neighbors that Compass Housing Alliance walks alongside on their journey to home. Enjoy interactive art, performances, entertainment, dinner, cocktails, and dancing. Your participation will provide life-altering services to our neighbors in need and support Compass’s continued work to develop more services and housing in our community.

Compass Housing Alliance develops and operates permanent affordable housing with supportive services, expansive 24/7 enhanced shelter programs, and a robust emergency services hub, for low-income and unhoused individuals and families in our community. Learn more and buy your tickets by March 17 here: https://www.compasshousingalliance.org/

No Violence, Know Peace Workshops

Thanks to a 2022 Grace Grant, Bethesda Lutheran Church is teaming up with Projects for a Civil Society to offer the Basic Alternatives to Violence (ATV) workshop twice in April - all are welcome to participate. Both Workshops will be held at Bethesda Lutheran Church (23406 – 56^th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace)

Mon-Tues, April 3-4, 9am-6pm

OR

Wed-Thurs, April 12-13, 9am-6pm

Chrism Mass

Tuesday, April 4, 11am

at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral (1245 10th Ave. East, Seattle)

Deacons and pastors are invited to reaffirm their ordination vows and receive blessed chrism oil of to use in their communities. This is a shared service with the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia and the Northwest Washington Synod of the ELCA. Bishop Shelley Bryan Wee will preach and Bishop Melissa Skelton will preside. Light lunch to follow.

5-Week LiVE Course

The Kin-dom of God and Environmental Justice 

April 13, 20, 27 (one week off) May 11 and 18

Thursday evenings 6:30-8pm on Zoom



This 5-week series will help you consider and embody how faith lives at the intersection of environmental justice. Together, we will explore our call to live as stewards of creation in a way that furthers God’s “kin-dom” on Earth as one rooted in justice, interdependence, and sustainability. Using the ELCA Social Statement on Caring for Creation as a guide, participants will build a faith-based foundation with a toolkit of resources for taking action as stewards of creation and advocates for environmental justice. Come and learn how you and your congregation can engage this essential vocation with grace, hope, and action. 



About the Faculty Facilitator: Sister Jessica Zimmerle has served as a community organizer in the faith-based environmental justice movement for 10 years, most recently as the Advocacy Director of Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light. She centers stories and values in her work supporting congregations living out their call to care for creation and mobilizing individuals taking action as faithful advocates on issues of environmental justice. Sister Jessica lives out this vocation as a Minister of Word and Service and member of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA. 

Learn how to participate here

The PLU Department of Education invites you to

the 13th Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture

SHELF LIFE: Finding Community (and Yourself) in the World of Books - given by author Minh Lê

Tuesday, April 18, 7pm-8pm at Pacific Lutheran University

in the AUC CK Hall Room 214

The lecture is free and open to the public, book signing to follow

www.plu.edu/education/jolita-hylland-benson-education-lecture/

In this lecture, author Minh Lê discusses the role of the imagination and stories in challenging times—and how books can create the opportunity for deep connections that transcend the page.

Minh Lê is the author of the picture books, Lift (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year), Drawn Together (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature), and most recently The Blur. He also wrote Green Lantern: Legacy, a middle grade graphic novel for DC Comics and the recently released follow up, Green Lantern: Alliance. Minh also serves on the Board of We Need Diverse Books and is on the faculty of the Hamline MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Farm Bill - ELCA Listening Sessions

Pacific Time Zone focus

Friday, April 21 – 12 noon Pacific Time

ELCA farm bill listening sessions are virtual gatherings where ministry leaders, members of congregations, and those with valuable lived experiences gather our opinions and experiences informed by faith values on stewardship, justice and serving our neighbor. Please join the conversation shaping our faithful action!  Learn more here.

Register here for our regional session here – https://bit.ly/ELCAfarmbilllisteningPacific

Bishop's Convocation

for Rostered Ministers, Mission Developers & Interns of our Synod

April 23-26

at Seabeck Conference Center



We look forward to sharing time and stories with you and our presenters. We will welcome Vance Blackfox, Director of ELCA Indigenous Ministries & Tribal Relations AND local Indigenous Elders and leaders, Jay "Jeremiah" Julius, Kay Knott, and Jay Bowen.

Did not get registered? We have a few more available spots!

Reach out to Susan@lutheransnw.org ASAP!

May Youth Weekend at Holden Village

Friday, May 26-Sunday, May 28

This amazing weekend is for High School Youth in Region One

Our theme this year is Rest Fest: Dwelling in Our Holy Enough

We will welcome guests Ellie Roscher and Lacey Brown

Cost is $265 per participant

Registration is at capacity - get on the waitlist HERE.