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2014 Northeastern Iowa Synod Assembly

Strengthened for Witness & Service

Thanks for your partnership in ministry!

• Rev. Dr. Steven L. Ullestad

Bishop Carla Johnsen Church Council

Thanks for your partnership in ministry!

• Rev. Joelle Colville-Hanson

Director for Evangelical Mission Kathryn Kleinhans Women & Justice Task Force

Syd Brinkman Women of the ELCA

Thanks for your partnership in ministry!

Presiding Bishop Eaton’s Four Emphases:

• We are church
• We are Lutheran
• We are church together
• We are church for the

sake of the world

Mission Support Giving

YOUR CONGREGATION

shares a portion of this

• ffering – called Mission

Support – with the other two expressions of this church. Mission Support is the lifeblood of the work that God does through the ELCA. In your congregation, you support:

• Ministry within your

congregation

• Local outreach in your

community

YOUR WEEKLY OFFERING

at your congregation supports the mission of the whole ELCA doing God’s work in the world.

YOUR SYNOD

supports congregations and rostered leaders as they work in their communities and throughout the world.

YOUR CHURCHWIDE ORGANIZATION

responds to local and worldwide ministry

• pportunities, helping to feed those who are hungry,

train future leaders, and advocate for justice on behalf of your neighbors around the globe. Some Mission Support funds may return to your congregation in the form of grants, services, programs, and resources.

Mission Support and the Three Expressions

• f the ELCA

CONGREGATIONS

$1.7 billion remained in congregations to fund local ministries

SYNODS

$52.7 million was shared to support ministries through synods

CHURCHWIDE MINISTRIES

$49.9 million was sent from synods to support churchwide ministries

94.2% 3.0% 2.8%

In 2013, this synod shared 40% of the mission support received from the congregations of this synod for ministry both within the ELCA and with our global partners. This amounted to $601,910.

Stories of Faith in Action

• Stories of Faith in Action —

Shows people whose lives have been touched by ELCA ministries

• Congregational offerings make

these ministries possible.

• Tells how offerings make a

difference domestically and internationally.

Message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton

We Are Church Together

Waverly Detroit Puerto Rico

New and Renewing Congregations

As a church together, we planted 41 new congregations in 2013, 65% of them in multicultural

• communities. Here in Northeastern Iowa Synod, we are partners together with two new

starts: New Hope Lutheran Church in Farley, and Peace Lutheran Fellowship in Parkersburg.

Companion Synod Relationships

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia German Evangelical Lutheran Church

in the body of Christ

237

missionaries

• ne

49 countries

Building Capacity for Evangelical Witness and Service in the World

60 Young Adults in Global Mission

Missionaries Sponsored by Northeastern Iowa Synod Congregations

Mary Beth & Bayo Oyebade

Nigeria

Steven & Bethany Friberg

Tanzania

Tanya & Austin Propst

Madagascar

Jeff VonWald & Julie Rossate

Palestine & West Bank

Bradn Buerkle - Russia

Young Adults in Global Mission Sponsored by Northeastern Iowa Synod Congregations

in Companion Synod in Hungary

Ole Schenk

Szarvas

Chelsea Paulsen

Szombathely

Thad Titze

Gorogszallas

Meredith Massey

Piliscsaba

In 2013…

• You helped launch congregational

renewal efforts in 155 congregations.

• Supported 224 students at eight ELCA

seminaries (ELCA Fund for Leaders).

• Awarded 61 scholarships to young

international leaders from our global companion churches.

• You supported innovative solutions to

hunger and poverty in nearly 60 countries and more than 350 programs in the U.S. (ELCA World Hunger).

• Worked to help end deaths from

malaria in 13 countries in Africa (ELCA Malaria Campaign).

In 2013…

ELCA Mission Investment Fund Northeastern Iowa Synod

• $9 Million Invested
• $7.3 Million in Loans

Accompanying Congregations

93 of your congregations and ministries, plus 155 individuals hold over $9 million in MIF investments.

ELCA World Hunger

ELCA World Hunger

Total giving for World Hunger for 2013 was $18.6 million. Thank you for this synod’s gifts of over $355,000 to World Hunger in 2013. The state of Iowa also received 16 domestic hunger grants totaling $34,800. Right here in your synod, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville is one of those programs. The “Barnabas Uplift” program at St. Paul’s recruits participants, particularly women, some with children, to become more self-sufficient by acquiring training and/or more self- sustaining employment opportunities. Many of these women and their families are in need

• f more skills to lift themselves up and out of poverty. The program helps clients identify
• bstacles and barriers to more gainful employment and helps by paying class registration

costs, etc. The program is designed to address root causes of hunger by ending under- and unemployment.

ELCA Disaster Response

In addition, last year, ELCA members gave $9.9 million for disaster response – from Missouri to the Philippines to the Central African Republic, we are responding together. Over $133,000 from this synod.

In August 2011, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted overwhelmingly to roll

• ut the campaign to raise $15 million to

help end Malaria in Africa. Thus far, we’ve raised over $11 million in cash and pledges. Since the beginning of the campaign, Northeastern Iowa Synod has given over $437,000, far exceeding your goal of $250,000!

Fund for Leaders Scholarship Recipients

Minna Quint

Wartburg College

Seth Rumage

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Daniel Hanson

Luther College

Fund for Leaders Full Scholarship Recipients

Paul Waterman

Wartburg College

ELCA Youth Gathering

• Detroit, Michigan
• July 15-19, 2015

Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA

Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA

• Publicly launched Feb. 1, 2014.
• Approved by 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
• Five-year, $198 million campaign.
• Through The Campaign for the ELCA, we can:
• Invest in the future of this church
• Expand our mission capacity
• Achieve things on a scale and scope that we

could never do alone

Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA

For more information on the campaign:

• Visit www.ELCA.org/campaign,
• Call 800-638-3522 (ext. 2612) or,
• Email us at campaignforELCA@elca.org

Thank you!

2014 Synod Assembly Report The Rev. Dr. Wyvetta Bullock