UPCOMING EVENTS

First Things First: Learning About Addiction

Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 09:30am


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Lunch & Learn: Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth

Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 12:00pm to 01:00pm


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How Your Church Can Become a Center of Long Life Learning & Faith Formation

Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 11:00am


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OUR SYNOD

On the way together.

The Saint Paul Area Synod is one of 65 synods in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Made up of 110 congregations and new starts, the Saint Paul Area Synod works to build mutually transformative partnerships, embolden public witness for justice, and renew ourselves in the possibilities of being church in a new day.

Our common work includes domestic partnerships and renewal as well as being a part of the global church by walking with companions in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT) and the Iglesia Luterana Agustina de Guatemala (ILAG).

 FROM THE BISHOP

Hold Fast: 2021 Annual Report

Looking back, 2021 was both a tough year and a transformative time. Last January, did any of us really think we would still be wearing masks and keeping social distance the following Christmas?

 

Yet, when challenged in so many ways, in congregation after congregation, we learned to hold fast to God’s promised faithfulness; a wild ride indeed.

 

Read the full annual report.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The Saint Paul Area Synod is made up of congregations, mission starts and institutions committed to growing in faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Living out of our identity as Lutheran, we recognize we are grasped by grace and are free to devote our energy to being church in a way that is rooted in tradition and open to experimentation.

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