Easter & Holy Week (2024)

   December 4, 2025Dear Friends,Welcome to an updated “Across the Diocese” newsletter. We’ve updated the look and feel, the included content, and the frequency of these emails in a desire to both increase important communication with you while also streamlining what we send in order to make these emails more engaging and informative. I hope you’ll take the time to read through and check out this new format.We’re in the midst of Advent and also “the holiday season.” More and more companies have created Advent Calendar offerings—running December 1-24, which rarely aligns with the Church Calendar for Advent. Their desire […]

      Sharable Link”Wake up, that’s one of those calls that we hear during Advent, right? Wake up from all that is going on around us, wake up from the droning of our culture that says it’s all about things and not about relationships. This season of Advent gives us an opportunity to wake up and realize that Jesus is coming once again to help us prepare room in our own hearts, in our souls, for the Christ child to be born.”Bishop LaBelle shares his reflections as we begin this season of Advent.Diocese of Olympia | 1551 10th Ave E | Seattle, […]

View as WebpageNovember 21, 2025    Announcing Newsletter Changes for Across the Diocese and Clergy News and UpdatesBeginning with the first week of Advent, both Across the Diocese and our clergy newsletter will move to a twice-monthly release schedule in alternating weeks so that we can focus on sending out more stories from across the Diocese, reflections from Bishop LaBelle and the canons on staff at the Office of the Bishop, and ensuring that the newsletters we do send out are filled with essential information and don’t simply repeat the same content each week.We will no longer include recurring events, […]

 November 19, 2025  Synod ResourcesAdministration, Compensation Guidelines, Constitutions, Financial, Personnel Policies, Pulpit Supply, Immigration, TransitionLatest Letters and Press Releases from the Synod and ChurchwideDownload new 2026 Compensation Guidelines HERE!ELCA World Hunger Advent Resources (Advent study guide and resources for your community to bring warmth, welcome, and hope to your home, your neighborhood, and the world, including “Stocking the Streets” bags for our unhoused neighbors)ATTENTION!!! New Phone Number!!!Please note that the Synod Office has a new phone number!! We’ve made the switch to a VOIP phone system to better accommodate remote working possibilities and weren’t able to switch over the existing number.Please […]