News & Info

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Visions/Parish Paper:

Didymus:

Ask Edna:
Congregations in Transition:
Workers in Paradise Shared Ideas:
Concerns, Celebrations, Prayers, Praise:
A Message From The Bishop:
News For The Pews:

  • The Bishop's Letter to ECSW (March, 2011)
  • Region 5 letter to Governor Walker
  • Bishop's ECSW letter regarding Governor Walker
  • Bishops Budget Letter to Walker #2

  • Death of Mavis Matladi

  • Women of the ELCA Open Door Newsletter

  • Reflections of the 2011 Churchwide Assembly

    • Meet Cindy McPeake, an ELCA Youth with family in the ECSW who is a YAGM in Malaysia.
    Follow her blog at yagm-malaysia.blogspot.com


    The Parish Paper:     Ideas and Insights for Active Congregations
    Coeditors: Herb Miller, Lyle Schaller, Cynthia Woolever
    www.TheParishPaper.com

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    F.Y.I. on the ELCA/ECSW


    ECSW Financial Update

    Take It Now