In a joint statement released Jan. 16, 2026, national bishops from Lutheran churches in the United States, Canada, and Denmark voiced strong support for the Greenlandic people amid growing international pressure on Greenland’s future. The statement affirms Greenland’s right to self-determination, peace between nations, and respect for international law.

The Rev. Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, issues statement on terror attack on Jewish community in Australia. Read it here.

The Rev. Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, issues statement on Brown University shooting. Read it here.

What will Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona be working on in the new year? The LAMA Policy Council announces its Policy Priorities for 2026. Read all about it.

We have exciting news to share: LAMA blew past its $5000 goal mid-afternoon, so we’re challenging ourselves to DOUBLE that goal by midnight. Please help us reach our new $10,000 goal!

You are invited to take action with us on Giving Tuesday, December 2, by helping us raise $5,000 to provide LAMA with the resources needed to continue our mission to end hunger, protect legal pathways to immigration, ensure equal access to healthcare, voting, housing and so much more. 

After 43 days of shutdown, the federal government resumed operations on Nov. 13, 2025, which funds most federal agencies through Jan. 30, 2026. A message was sent to U.S. House and Senate representatives expressing gratitude for the reopening.

Yehiel Curry, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral message on living in troubled times. Read it here.

ELCA World Hunger’s Daily Bread Grants are one way our church accompanies communities as they respond to hunger and poverty. Accepting applications Nov. 1 - Nov. 15, priority this year on rural ministries.

Register today! Lutheran Day at the Legislature 2026 is Monday, February 23 from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm (register at 8:30). Rally, meet with legislators, tour, introductions in both chamber galleries, breakfast and lunch ~ what a day!

Mr. Peter Faur, a member of the LAMA Policy Committee, has a new novel out this week: The Heretic Hunters: A Parable for Our Time. Check it out.

On Friday, October 17, Arizona inmate Richard Djerf is set to be put to death by lethal injection. ELCA Witness in Society sent Governor Katie Hobbs a letter asking her to commute Djerf’s death sentence. Read the letter.

The ELCA Conference of Bishops has issued a statement calling for love in our public witness. “Our faith compels us to stand where Jesus stands—with and for those whom society often seeks to exclude, erase, or diminish,” the statement reads, in part. Read more.

The GCS Grant application window closes no later than midnight on Friday, October 31, 2025. Funds support specific new or continuing projects that advance goals in the GCS Strategic Plan.

World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. Organizations concerned with hunger and food security participate.

The State of Arizona Nonprofit Security Grant Program (AZ-NSGP) is now accepting applications. Deadline for applications is Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Info meetings Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 17-18.

From message: "As I wrote last year, after the attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, Pa., 'God calls this church to say a definitive ‘no’ to political violence now and in the future. Political violence has a long history but no place in democracy. This church belongs to God, and our unity in Christ is a grace-filled and healing gift in a fractured society.'"

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has sent a letter to President Donald Trump and members of Congress expressing support for Jewish-American and Israeli communities affected by the Oct. 7 attacks, while voicing profound horror over the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza.