This year the ELCA has been celebrating how ELCA World Hunger came to be and the thousands of donors who have and continue to make its work possible. Since 1974, hundreds of thousands of people from across the church have contributed more than $650 million to support ELCA World Hunger.

We need your help! Volunteer to be your district’s coordinator for Lutheran Day at the Legislature this year! Read what’s involved here.

This excellent update on SNAP Access, Free School Meals & Summer EBT is from the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) News Digest, dated December 2.

The Northeast Valley Consortium – a collaboration among Ascension, Christ the Lord, Living Water, New Covenant, and New Journey Lutheran Churches, founded in 2020 – approved $2,000 to fund Grand Canyon Synod participation in the 2025 ELCA World Hunger Leaders Gathering.

As Thanksgiving approaches, we are grateful to God for countless blessings. With these prayers, we prayer for unity in our nation, and among our leaders.

Be it a Christmas or Chanukah card, or a simple Congratulations on Your Election note, now is the perfect time to build a bridge with your legislators. Start building that relationship!

Searching for the perfect gift? Shop ELCA Good Gifts and choose from more than 50 life-changing, charitable gifts to give in lieu of traditional Christmas presents.

If loving your neighbor and advocating for social justice by lifting up issues and helping to shape policy in Arizona is important to you, please consider supporting the ministry of Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona (LAMA) with an early #GivingTuesday gift today.

From combating child hunger to advocating for climate action and justice for Dreamers, the ELCA continues to live out its call to serve neighbors and proclaim God’s peace. This month’s highlights include updates from COP29, work on U.S.-Israel humanitarian aid, and support for DACA protections.

Free devotional from Bread for the World. Each weekly devotional message approaches peace with a different invitation: finding peace in remembering God’s promises; pausing and being still as a way of preparing for Christ’s coming; finding joy as we turn over our burdens to God; and letting the proclamation of God’s justice change us from the inside out.

Use this nonpartisan resource to explore key immigration facts from ELCA Ammparo and reflect on how Christian values compel us to pursue justice, help the oppressed, promote human dignity and human flourishing, and pray for a government that serves all neighbors. 8 pages.

Equip your congregation to navigate the post-election season with Faith+Lead’s free 2024 Election Toolkit. Filled with resources for fostering empathy, addressing complex issues, and promoting Gospel values over partisanship, this toolkit offers practical guidance for preaching, teaching, and living out justice and faith.

The Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona Policy Council met Sunday-Monday, November 17-18 to listen, learn, laugh and discern LAMA’s Policy Priorities for 2025.

Join the Arizona Faith Network Annual Gathering on December 9 at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, AZ, or online. Under the theme Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers: Peacemakers in Action, Rev. Eugene Cho, President of Bread for the World, will guide attendees in addressing the root causes of conflict and injustice in today’s world.

Sign the Southwest-specific Nourish Our Future petition urging our senators and representatives to end child hunger in the U.S. and around the world! From Bread for the World.

Guest blogger Paul Westermann of University Lutheran Church in Tempe writes about his experience as an elections clerk.

As I reflect on the election results in our nation and in our swing-states synod, I recognize that emotions across our communities are varied and deeply felt. For some, there is joy and hope; for others, uncertainty and worry. In this moment, we turn our gaze once again toward Jesus, our unchanging source of comfort and strength in uncertain times.

The day after the 2024 presidential election, whether individually people experience joy or grief, Bishop Eaton reflects on the many expressions of our church being woven together as strands of a large tapestry. 2:07, recorded November 6, 2024.