Living well, dying well: How faith communities can support advance care conversations
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As hard and uncomfortable as it can be to discuss how we’d like to leave this life, it’s a conversation worth starting before you have to.
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"Greening" your meetings
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Along with going outside and planting a tree this year, consider these helpful tips to keep your meetings “green.” Remember that going a little green is better than doing nothing at all.
A message from the ELCA Malaria Campaign--World Malaria Day: April 25
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Malaria is worldwide epidemic, but recent developments have made it possible to stop this disease. See what the Saint Paul Area Synod, in partnership with the ELCA Malaria Campaign, is doing to end malaria—for good.
‘You cannot go there without it affecting you in some way’
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Despite her exhaustion, she could not help but feel at home in this new place as she smiled back at the faces of the people surrounding her. Little did she know that this place and these people would soon become part of one the most formative encounters of her life.
Congregations work to keep New Year’s resolutions
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Our faith communities provide an ideal place for all of us to make a commitment to positive change. As Lutherans, we are called to steward all gifts: faith, relationships, resources, emotions, occupations, calls, roles, talents—and, yes, even our bodies. By stewarding these gifts, however imperfectly, we live healthier lives, better able to be whole people of God.
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ELCA Benefit Cost Increases Defy National Average
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An Update from Portico Benefit Services: A new fitness center discount for health plan members has been approved for 2013. Plus, employers will again have the chance to earn a 2% discount on 2013 health contributions
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Flood recovery in northeastern Minnesota will be long term
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Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota is working with the ELCA Northeastern Minnesota Synod Office and the national office of Lutheran Disaster Response to respond to the flood disaster in Duluth and other communities affected by torrential rains in northeastern Minnesota.
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Fall Stewardship Series: Fanning the Flames of Mission
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Through the synod's fall stewardship emphasis, "Fanning the Flames of Mission," participants will have a chance to see, hear, and experience the many ways that God’s mission is alive and well in our congregations and communities.
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Susan Miller Plans Sabbatical
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The Rev. Susan Miller, assistant to the bishop for congregational life and mission, will be on sabbatical from Memorial Day until Labor Day. Miller has been on Saint Paul Area Synod staff for six years, and for two years before that was engaged on a contract basis participating in mobility work.
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Kum Ba Ya: A Different Take on the Health Assessment
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I join my voice with the synod staff and others who have already taken Mayo Health Assessment and sing out to you, 'Kum Ba Ya' - come by here, to www.elcaforwellness.org, and help yourself and our wider community. We only have until April 30 and there will be either loud rejoicing or gnashing of teeth as we only came close.
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