more than 2 million U.S. children who have a parent in prison. Based on her experience as the child of an incarcerated parent, Kaeppeler founded the Circles of Support men- toring program.
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The 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering is just around the corner and The Lutheran wants to write about it. If your congregation is sending youth, what has your church done to pre- pare? Or what has been your most cre- ative fundraiser? Send brief responses and contact information by March 30 to
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Prayers for Syria ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson wrote to Christian church leaders in Syria, offering prayers and support for an end to violence. “We
Holden environmental cleanup official I
n January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service and other agencies signed a Record of Decision for cleanup of the former Holden Mine Site on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington. It’s also the site of Holden Village, a Lutheran ministry in the Cascade Mountains. The document outlines remedies for cleaning up environmental contami- nates at the inactive mine.
The first phase of the cleanup is expected to begin in 2013 and should take two years, followed by five years of monitoring before phase two of remedy construction begins. The village won’t close during the first phase, but will do its own projects and have “even more volunteer and staff opportunities,” said Charles Carpenter, a director. He said the village is also looking at holding offsite programs during those two years.
During phase one, the village will house and feed 200-plus round-the- clock construction workers.
In summer 2015, Holden expects to resume full programming with several construction workers on site (65 or so) finishing up the project.
who are at ‘the ends of the earth’ can- not forget the importance of Syria for the growth of our faith or the
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partners After the paint dries, Mario Alvarez, a dea- con at Mission Cristo Salvador, a congrega- tion of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina and Uruguay, re-hangs a cross. Members of a delegation from Mount Pleas- ant Lutheran, Racine, Wis., helped paint the church’s exterior during a mission trip organized through the Minneapolis- based Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry.
communities of disciples keeping the faith in the land of Christian- ity’s birth,” Hanson wrote. He also asked how the ELCA could help Syr- ian church leaders be “ministers of reconciliation.”
Pope warns of secularism “Radical secularism” is gaining ground in American society and poses a “grave threat” to the Roman Catholic Church’s freedom of expres- sion in the public square, Pope Bene- dict XVI told a group of U.S. bish- ops recently. Roman Catholics must be on guard to confront a “reductive secularism,” Benedict said, which tries to “delegitimize the church’s participation in public debate.” The pope warned that America’s “cher-
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It’s like a choir when one section leaves. We’re not as full and rich as we were.
Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan of Alabama, speak- ing to The Birmingham News about conserva- tive defections from his diocese.
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