24 August

ELCA Churchwide Assembly Summary Available by week's end

Since I'm working on my pastor's article for Immanuel Lutheran Church in Madison, Nebraska's monthly newsletter today, and have a 5 p.m. deadline to get information to the editor, I thought I'd see if I could find some sort of one-page summary of all of the votes and decisions that happened at the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly last week.

Since I couldn't find a summary like what I was looking for on elca.org, I thought I'd give the ELCA Churchwide Organization a phone call and see what I could find out.

In a brief phone conversation with ELCA News Director John Brooks, I was informed that the news staff hopes to have summaries available by the end of the week for sure, and if things go well, by the end of the day on Wednesday, August 26.

These summaries will be made available online only, and can be found at:

http://www.elca.org/assembly/summary

The Nebraska Synod Communications Staff produced a one-page review that was available early morning on Saturday, August 22, which doesn't touch on everything, but hits most of the highlights through Friday. This can be found online at:

http://fillspillthrill.org/2009/08/churchwide-assembly-2009-review/

and as a PDF at

http://fillspillthrill.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/churchwideassembly_review1.pdf