ELCA News Release on Consultation on Multicultural Congregations
This news release from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America discusses a consultation on multicultural congregations, and mentions a Worship Renewal Grant given to the Delaware–Maryland Synod of the ELCA.
ELCA Consults White Pastors Serving Multicultural Congregations
CHICAGO (ELCA)—Sitting upright at the first desk facing the podium, the trio resembled students—unmarked by a collective decade of parish ministries. Mentors, each with decades of experience, leaned back from the desk near the windows, each moment learning new things from speakers and from their younger counterparts.
Twenty-five pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) accepted an invitation to come together here for a consultation. They are white pastors serving congregations in multicultural settings in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland Heights and Columbus, Ohio, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Oakland and Riverside, Calif. ...
As a result of the consultation, Arwyn Gohl said she’s taken part in a multicultural worship project through the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Grand Rapids, Mich., and the ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod. She said she’s become more convinced that multicultural worship “is necessary for Jerusalem to be rooted in the community.”