East Central Synod of Wisconsin - ELCA [Leadership]

Congregational Life	Mission/Stewardship	Mission/Outreach	Directory
Congregational Life Congregational Life is the place where decisions are made regarding the leadership and ministry taking place in your faith community. You will find information and forms for the call process, a list of pastors willing to do supply preaching if your pastor is gone, Salary guidelines, forms required by the ELCA and more. Statement of Intent for 2013 Remittance Form Call Process 2013 Compensation Guidelines Lay Staff Survey Results 2010 Pulpit Supply Formatta Filler Congregation Constitution ECSW Women of the ELCA
Mission/Stewardship Through your congregational offerings, ministry is able to take place locally and throughout the world. Discover how your mission support dollars are distributed within the whole church, read the faith stories about people who are making a difference and see how the financial picture looks for your congregation and the congregations within your conference. http://www.stewardshipoflife.org/ Check out this great online resource that provides a weekly newsletter, a weekly text /sermon on stewardship, a joke of the week, and so much more. Leaders and clergy will be able to put to use many of the tools offered to provide year-round Stewardship. The Stewardship of Life Institute, founded in 1994, is headquartered at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, located in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Institute’s mission is to serve stewardship in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America through its seminaries. ELCA Offerings in 2012 and Where it Goes Where does your offering go? 2011 Financial Report 2012 Mission Support Given by Conference Grants Lutheran Planned Giving of Wisconsin For The Record Publication - June 2013 Letter To IRA Custodian (2010-2011) Letter To The ELCA Foundation (2010-2011) Monthly Financial Update Chick Lane’s Stewardship Presentation for ECSW Session 1 [Powerpoint] or [PDF] Chick Lane’s Stewardship Presentation for ECSW Session 2 [Powerpoint] or [PDF] The Audited Financial statements are available for viewing. If you would like to review them, please email Diane Clark: diane.clark@ecsw.org.
Mission/Outreach Healthy, missional congregations are growing inside and out. They are using their gifts and talents to reach out to their neighbors near and far in service and love. Discover how you can become a true missional congregation, and then share your story with us! DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A MALARIA CAMPAIGN TAKING PLACE IN OUR SYNOD? Stamp Out Malaria Campaign Mission at Work in the East Central Synod of WI The Holden Parish Kids with the PineRidge Indian Reservation kids on our mission trip this summer to Manderson, SD. Teaching about God through song, prayer, stories, food and fun. God's Work ~~ Our Hands! “Happy Volunteers” First English Lutheran Church organizes the Wisconsin Rapids Collection Center for LWR Boxcar donations – sending out information each year to over 60 area churches. In this picture we are taking our church’s items to the boxcar. St. Paul, Neenah along with other denominations helps to serve those in need a good meal through “Community Table” which happens each week at their congregation.