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We are a 'leader-full' organization. Whether you are serving in one of our nearly 7,000 units or in your synodical expression, you are at the center of moving our mission—to mobilize women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ.

May 2012

Women of the ELCA at the ELCA Youth Gathering: Offer your words of wisdom

A Pentecost devotion for May: Choosing to listen

Social Media Tip:  How to start a Facebook profile

There’s no wrong way to make a Thankoffering container

Let’s go back to Vacation Bible School

May is for Katie’s Fund!

Thrivent Choice offers new way to give to Women of the ELCA



April 2012
  • Katie's Fund is going places
  • A stewardship devotion for Eastertide: Providing for storytellers
  • Health Initiative Seed Grant program: Planting seeds for a healthy tomorrow
  • Experience the history and culture of the Chippewa Cree
  • Bible study events begin in May
  • Women of the ELCA at the ELCA Youth Gathering: Offer your words of wisdom


March 2012
  • Are we only the work of our hands?
  • A Stewardship Devotion for March: Proclaiming our faith for future generations
  • Plan now for a summer retreat
  • Meet the Executive Board
  • Top 10 reasons to subscribe to Gather


February 2012
  • Celebrate Bold Women’s Day this month
  • Grants, scholarship applications due
  • A Stewardship Devotion for February: Supporting Epiphany people
  • Convention offering totals $84,932
  • Lent: Penitence, Pilgrimage, Preparation
  • Meet the Executive Board
  • Prepare for 25th anniversary by celebrating Women’s History Month


January 2012
  • Improve with bold resolutions
  • An Offering Devotion for Epiphany/January: Continuing Forward
  • World Day of Prayer 2012: Coming together to ‘Let Justice Prevail’
  • Meet the Executive Board
  • It's time!
  • Buzz around town: Women of the ELCA is heading to New Orleans again


December 2011
  • On the cusp of change
  • Executive board addresses referral, reviews convention actions
  • Your Gifts at work


November 2011
  • Our Anniversary and the ELCA Malaria Campaign: A Shared Endeavor
  • Advent Song of Praise
  • Advocating for Gender Justice
  • Connecting the dots: A stategy for women disciples
  • Book Review: Mighty Be Our Powers
  • TG11 featured speaker awarded Nobel Peace Prize


October 2011
  • Leading disciples into ministry
  • We are an offering: a stewardship devotion for October
  • Getting ready to celebrate 25 years
  • Plan now to celebrate Bold Women’s Day
  • Eradicating bullying and violence
  • Seed grants now available
  • Gratitude for God’s blessings


September 2011
  • Spokane benefits from church support
  • Run, Walk and Roll raises funds for churchwide seed grants program
  • Rise up! Reclaim your space!
  • Hunger, gender justice, climate lead debate at Triennial Convention
  • Delegates elect new officers, board
  • Not just the 'usual suspects'
  • Women in their 20s and 30s gathered
  • Speaker calls women to look for messages in unpredictable places


August 2011
  • Latest program resources
  • Offering devotion: Where love and faithfulness meet
  • Lutheran Woman Today becomes Gather
  • A Walk to Beautiful
  • 2011-2012 Scholarships awarded
  • Going to Churchwide Assembly? Have breakfast with Linda
  • Triennial Report highlights our partnership with you


July 2011

  • Its time to plan for the coming year
  • Offering devotion: Called to serve
  • Join the Triennial online
  • Grow in faith, promote healing through knitting, journaling
  • Get to know your synodical treasurer
  • Women Building Global Community


June 2011

  • Gathering All Women of the ELCA
  • Faithful servanthood: An offering devotion for June
  • Join the triennial convention and gathering online!
  • When in Doubt, Sing: Prayer in Daily Life, by Jane Redmont
  • Triennial convention business
  • Commissioning triennial delegates
  • Vacation Bible School
  • Sending prayer for triennial participants

May 2011

  • Have an intergenerational women’s group
  • Offering devotion:Saying yes
  • News from the spring churchwide executive board meeting
  • Planning a summer event? Make it an outreach opportunity
  • Fall LWT Bible study invites readers to discipleship
  • How do you “live Lutheran”? ELCA video contest


April 2011

  • State of the ministry 2011
  • This is the day: An offering devotion for April/Easter
  • Planting seeds: An update on Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls
  • Join in the triennial convention offering
  • Top ten reasons to go to the gathering


March 2011

  • What happens at the triennial convention?
  • Mercy wild: an offering devotion for March
  • Katie’s Fund and the power of words
  • 2011 Triennial Gathering workshop opportunities
  • Summer Bible study: Renew, Respond, Rejoice!


February 2011

  • Organize your programming into three areas: discipleship, justice and stewardship
  • Mindful forgiveness: An offering devotion for February
  • Take part in the Eighth Triennial Convention offering
  • Photos needed for triennial gathering banner project
  • Triennial gathering in-kind gift needs


January 2011

  • The danger of nostalgia
  • Devotion: Blessed are you
  • New program resources
  • World Day of Prayer 2011
  • Staying connected when a congregation leaves the ELCA
  • Collect prayer shawls for the triennial gathering
  • Scholarship and grant applications now being accepted


December 2010

  • Quilt challenge for 2011 Triennial Gathering announced
  • Devotion: Do not be afraid
  • Highlights of the fall churchwide executive board meeting
  • Your gifts at work


November 2010

  • Conferences and clusters: What they are, why they exist and how they should function
  • Offering Devotion: Being ready
  • New program resources
  • Rooted and grounded in love: Women of the ELCA planned giving
  • Ideas for celebrating Bold Women’s Day


October 2010

  • Planting seeds and raising up healthy women and girls
  • Offering devotion: Studying God’s word
  • What are Thankofferings? What do they support?
  • How to organize your unit: A board is not the only option
  • Young women at risk: unhealthy dating relationships


September 2010

  • Revitalize yourself and your unit’s ministries at the 2011 Triennial Gathering!
  • Devotion: Fellowship in God’s community
  • Download first session of LWT Bible study,view video intros
  • SALE! Women of the ELCA gift items and resources
  • 2010 grant recipients


August 2010

  • Rejoice in Triennial Gathering worship!
  • Devotion: But no one could heal her
  • 2011 Triennial Convention: call for nominations
  • 2010–2011 Women of the ELCA scholarship recipients


July 2010

  • It's planning time
  • Offering devotion: Building stewardship
  • Women, faith, Café and dinner: Café groups
  • Revitalize yourself in one transformational weekend: the 2011 Triennial Gathering
  • Triennial Gathering flyer/bulletin insert
  • Ten things every Women of the ELCA leader needs to know


June 2010

  • Looking for a retreat idea? Try one of these!
  • Offering devotion: Accept our gifts
  • Your gifts help women with little hope
  • News from the spring 2010 executive board meeting
  • Book review: The Sacred Meal, by Triennial Gathering speaker Nora Gallagher


May 2010

  • New program resources
  • Offering devotion: A new commandment
  • Triennial Gathering news: Renew, Respond, Rejoice!
  • It’s not too early to start thinking about executive board nominations
  • The People of God: Unity in the Midst of Diversity Bible study


April 2010

  • New seed grant program launched for health initiative
  • Transformation by the Holy Spirit: An offering devotion for Pentecost
  • 2010 State of the Ministry Address highlights
  • Intergenerational charity project warms hearts—and bodies
  • Sharing with our global sisters through Katie's Fund


March 2010

  • Mission, purpose and principles
  • Sharing the good news: An offering devotion for Easter
  • Why be a delegate to the Triennial Convention?
  • Lutheran Woman Today summer 2010 Bible study
  • What the churchwide rep is there to do at your convention
  • Mobilizing women around the globe


February 2010

  • Print, electronic, and human—we have all kinds of resources for you!
  • Earth-keeping
  • Developing New Leaders through Katie's Fund
  • Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls Initiative: accomplishments, new efforts
  • How do the ballots for synodical boards get put together?


January 2010

  • A new season for learning: how to use our newest resources
  • World Day of Prayer 2010: Cameroon
  • A stewardship devotion for Epiphany
  • Sneak preview: Upcoming LWT Bible studies
  • About our India endowments
  • Recycle old cells phones and help women 


December 2009

  • News from the fall 2009 executive board meeting 
  • A stewardship devotion for Christmas: Wonderful Counselor 
  • Your gifts at work: annual report on revenue and expenses


November 2009

  •  New program resources
  •  A stewardship devotion for Advent: Trusting as we wait
  • Ideas for celebrating Bold Women's Day
  • Care for God's creation this Christmas
  • Bold Connections: A new e-newsletter for everyone


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