St. Matthew Lutheran Church

ELCA

• ELCA Introduces “Now Is the Time” Study Guide
  ​CHICAGO (Jan. 19, 2022) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America introduces "Now Is the Time: A Study Guide for ELCA Declaration to People of African Descent" to help congregations wrestle with the meaning of the declaration, adopted at the 2019 Churchwide Assembly, and its accompanying explanation.In the declaration, the ELCA "apologizes to people of […]
• Bishop Eaton issues message on 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day
  ​"Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain" (Isaiah 40:4).Eighty years ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was tragically transformed from an island paradise into a bloody battlefield. After the Japanese bombed the U.S. Navy, […]
• Pastoral message on the verdicts concerning the murder of Ahmaud Arbery
  ​In response to the verdicts in the trial of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan in Brunswick, Ga., for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, we offer a word of prayer and healing. We pray for Arbery's family because no verdict can ease the pain and suffering of the murder of their loved one. As a church concerned for […]