Enjoy live music performances from a capella group, Legacy, and accordion music from Bill Lotter. Schnitzelwirt food truck will have German cuisine with Austrian style for sale and kids get to enjoy a bounce house and face painting, and more! Come celebrate for a great cause!

This is a new program, in a new format and with an expanded curriculum for rostered ministers, lay council and stewardship leaders at no cost for 6 months. It is an online set of tools (podcasts, videos, documents and consultant office hours) open for individual and group education. You learn at your own pace and subjects of interest/concern to your context. 

3E is interested on how this new program may help you not just in stewardship, but a more comprehensive range of consultations on best practices for crisis management, storytelling, governance, communication, data management and more. You can visit the site at https://www.centerforgenerosity.com/ 

Enrollment is limited, so respond by November 1. If you have interest, please contact Deb Elstad using this link: https://rmselca.org/3e-generosity-pilot-Oct-2021

Understandable! Our hope is that we can find the "happy medium" in offering the opportunity for some smaller in-person gatherings in addition to on-line options so that we can continue to celebrate and share the important stories of the USC volunteers, their service sites and our growing alumni community that is changing the world! Therefore, you are invited to participate in whatever way feels best and meaningful to you -- either by attending a smaller-group "house party" event hosted by a USC Board member or alumnus or joining via Zoom!

November 12, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. – Bethany Lutheran in Cherry Hills Village, CO will be hosting a Veterans Appreciation Concert in their sanctuary. This concert will be free, and will be offered both live at Bethany, or via livestream at bethanylive.org.

Visit the RMS website for the full VSCP calendar and more!

Share the new Veterans Servant Corps Project brochure! Get it here.

Have Veterans events at your church/community that you would like to publicize; want Vicky or another VSCP board member to visit your church/community? Contact Vicky Daub at lvdaub2@gmail.com.

Invite your families, friends, churches, and youth groups to St. Mark's, 111 Del Mar Circle, Aurora CO for a fun and healthier way to kick off the holiday weekend, while supporting a critical Youth Ministry in our Synod! Get a swag bag, and fill it with candy and swag from over 30 trunks! After the fun run/walk, enjoy some authentic Mexican food from the food truck in our parking lot! Register here!

Join us and other high schoolers on the mountain during this weekend of rest and reflection. This weekend will give us a chance to step back from our busy lives of school/work/etc. and surround ourselves with God's creation in the midst of its beautiful fall transformation.

For more info contact cole@skyranchcolorado.org

Make your own music-maker and indulge in ice cream for the whole fam! Expose little ones to the joy of music where there are no rules or restrictions to bounce, sway, dance, or stomp to the music. A concert to inspire all future young artists! More info here!

The 2021 Challenge centers on the theme "Imagining Scriptural Encounters in the New Normal." The pandemic, efforts to overcome racial injustice in the whitest denomination in the US, and attempts to react to the climate crisis expose us to extreme and discontinuous change, and at the same time they pose probing questions to our faith and tradition.

For additional information see flyer here, or contact Dwight DuBois, special projects director for the Book of Faith Initiative, at dwight.dubois@elca.org. There is no cost for participating, but advance registration is required. Register at www.bookoffaith.org to attend one or all of the events. There is a separate registration for each event.

This class will teach the practice of “Guard of the Heart” (Also referred to as “Watchfulness” or “Presence Practice”) and how it compliments our Centering Prayer, and the practices of the Welcoming Prayer and the Active Prayer Phrase. We will learn the three ways any afflictive thought or emotional disturbance can be instantly released as it arises. Join us for this enriching and deepening complementary practice.

For more information and to register, go to https://www.centeringprayer.net/guardoftheheart or call 303-698-7729

The Center for EcoJustice at the Iliff School of Theology is pleased to announce its next conference – to be held virtually on October 21 and 22, 2021. The conference will focus on the intersection of environmental racism and immigration. What impact does shifting climate have on populations whose lands are being devastated? Forced to leave, what impact does shifting people have upon overstrained world resources?

For the tentative schedule, and presenters, visit the conference webpage.

For more information about the conference, please contact: ecojustice@iliff.edu.

To register for this conference, go HERE.

The Synod Creation Care Team invites you to a live presentation by Daniela Bueso, International Program Coordinator and Tours Manager for the non-profit Trees, Water & People (treeswaterpeople.org). This organization was founded in 1998 in Fort Collins, CO and partners with people in Central America and Native American tribal lands in the U.S. Their work in reforestation, clean cookstoves and renewable energy projects benefits the environment and people with green jobs while saving families money on fuel costs, improving their health and the environment. Daniela was born in Colombia and has worked in diverse settings in conservation and community engagement. She will present information on TW&P projects and connect that work to issues of climate change and sustainability.

Join us on our Facebook page or on Zoom. All are welcome!

Join the Synod AMMPARPO group for the quarterly meeting on Zoom on Nov. 20 at 10am where we will discuss "The God Who Sees" by Karen Gonzalez, and ways to serve in the Synod.

In The God Who Sees you will meet people who have fled their homelands. Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen González recounts her family's migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, González encounters Christ through a campus ministry program and begins to follow him.

Here, too, is the sweeping epic of immigrants and refugees in Scripture. Abraham, Hagar, Joseph, Ruth: these intrepid heroes of the faith cross borders and seek refuge. As witnesses to God's liberating power, they name the God they see at work, and they become grafted onto God's family tree.

Find resources for welcoming immigrants in your community and speaking out about an outdated immigration system. Find the power of Jesus, a refugee Savior who calls us to become citizens in a country not of this world. For more info, rmsammparo@gmail.com.

Zoom Link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88514349858

Please join us for The Uncertainty of Advent, an online Advent retreat offered by Rachel Bass Guennewig and DanaLee Simon, that runs from November 28 to December 25, 2021. Each week you may engage a 5-10 minute and also gather for one hour by ZOOM on Sunday nights (November 28, December 5, 12, and 19) at 5:30 p.m. Mountain time/6:30 Central time, to explore the theme of the week (Presence, Grief, Hope, Kairos). The online sessions will also be recorded for viewing later.

To register for the retreat, please follow this link. The retreat cost is $50 (If the cost is prohibitive, please pay what you can.). We will donate 15% of our proceeds to Interfaith Power and Light, an organization inviting bold and just action on climate change. You can check them out here:interfaithpowerandlight.org. After you register for the retreat, please pay via DanaLee’s Venmo account (@DanaLee-Simon), or by mailing a check to DanaLee Simon at 1184 s 1500 e, Salt Lake City, UT 84105. Registration closes November 19.   

If you have questions or would like more information, please get in touch with us! DanaLee (sagehillwisdom@gmail.com) or Rachel (dailybreadyoga@gmail.com).

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:  

Invite your congregation to experience A Season of Hope this Advent.

This position is part time salaried, 8-12 hours per week, and reports to the pastor. See full job description (here) for role details and required qualifications. Please send your resume and a cover letter with “ATTN Music Director Application” in the subject line to epiphanylutherandenver@gmail.com. If you have questions, please contact the church office at 303-722-5311 or Julie Chichlowski, Search Team Chair, at 262-339-3054. Applications will be accepted through October 29, 2021.

Sky Ranch is accepting applications for an Executive Director responsible for the oversight and management of the ministry and property of Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp.

Sky Ranch, an outdoor ministry of the ELCA, is a 117-acre seasonal facility located adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park. Job description is available here and more info is online at https://www.skyranchcolorado.org/executive-director-transition. Applications are due no later than October 31st, 2021. For more information or questions please contact Lindsay Reiten at SkyRanchSearch@gmail.com or 970.591.2194

Bethany Lutheran Church, Cherry Hills Village, CO seeks a Coordinator of Volunteerism and Administrative Assistant who will support the Faith Formation Team, assist in recruiting volunteers for a variety of volunteer opportunities, work in an office setting in a flexible manner. Job description here. Contact Pastor Gary Sandberg, gary@bethany-denver.org to apply or for questions.