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Upcoming Events
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2025 SYNOD ASSEMBLY AND BISHOP’S ELECTION
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2025 Synod Assembly — June 13 & 14 — PLU Olson Auditorium
Friday, June 13th, 2025
7:30am Registration starts
8:30am Official Business starts
3:00pm Official Business ends
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
8:30am Official Business starts
3:00pm Official Business ends
*times are subject to change*
Additional Events
Friday
Social Hour to honor Bishop Jaech at Trinity Lutheran Church, Parkland (across the street from PLU), approx. starting at 3:30pm (after official business of the day is concluded) – more info coming soon!
Saturday
Cookie Reception for Bishop Elect at Field House (inside Olson Auditorium), approx. starting at 3:00pm (after official business of the day is concluded)
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Assembly Packets
Assembly Packets have been mailed out to our guests and registered voters. This packet includes general information about the Assembly, Welcome Letters, Special Guest Bios, Proposed Agenda, Parliamentary Procedure, Resolutions, General Elections Bios, Bishop’s Election Bios of Pre-Identified Candidates, Executive Committee Reports, Ministry Reports and various reports of Synod Friends and Partners. Only a limited amount of hardcopies will be available on site.
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Hotels and Lodging
Below are some hotel recommendations synod staff researched for you. Feel free to pick one of the recommended hotels or you may choose to find your own accommodation.
We recommend booking your stay soon, as the Synod Assembly falls into high school graduation time, which could result in less hotel availability closer to the event.
Please remember that we do not have a “special rates” relationship with any hotel and, therefore, no hotel is the official Assembly hotel. All voting members and visitors will need to make their housing arrangements at the location that best suits them.
Puyallup area (east of the venue):
Best Western Plus Puyallup
620 S Hill Park Dr.
Puyallup, WA 98373
253-848-1500
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Puyallup
812 S Hill Park Dr.
Puyallup, WA 98373
253-848-4900
Hampton Inn and Suites
1515 S Meridian
Puyallup, WA 98371
253-770-8880
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Registration for the 2025 Synod Assembly is now closed!
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Bishop’s Election
The Pre-Identification Process is now concluded. The Bishop’s Election Team reviewed submissions of four candidates for nomination in our Synod and you can now view their materials on our website at https://swwasynod.org/home/bishop-election-2025/election-process/.
Although we received these pre-identification forms, nominations will be open for all active rostered leaders of the ELCA on the day of the Synod Assembly during the first “Ecclesiastical Ballot”.
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Bishop Eaton Issues Statement on Fatal Shooting of Two Israeli Embassy Staff in Washington, D.C.
CHICAGO (May 22, 2025) — We of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America join our ecumenical and interreligious partners in expressing deep concern and sadness over the deadly shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff outside an event in Washington, D.C. This is yet another example of the rising, deadly scourge of anti-Semitism in our society.
As a church, we have declared that “we recognize in anti-Semitism a contradiction and an affront to the Gospel, a violation of our hope and calling, and we pledge this church to oppose the deadly working of such bigotry, both within our own circles and in the society around us” (“A Declaration of the ELCA to the Jewish Community,” 1994).
We are profoundly disturbed that these killings occurred in the context of an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee that featured speakers from the Multifaith Alliance and the humanitarian organization IsraAID. These speakers were discussing avenues for ensuring that humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, precisely the kind of collaboration that is needed, and that the ELCA supports, as the people of Gaza face starvation and intentional mass displacement.
We join in praying for the families, colleagues and communities of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, for the Jewish people in our communities who live in fear, and for the people of Gaza, who desperately need humanitarian aid to stay alive. We continue to call for a ceasefire, for the release of hostages and those being detained, for access to humanitarian aid, for rejecting violence as a means of solving the ongoing destruction of the Holy Land, and for recommitments to dialogue, reconciliation and humanization. Above all, we pray for God’s peace and justice to prevail for all people.
The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton
Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Bishop Eaton Issues Statement on Fatal Shooting of Two Israeli Embassy Staff in D.C.
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FROM OUR FRIENDS AND PARTNERS
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A Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Rev. Richard E. Jaech, Bishop
Synod Office Hours
9am – 4pm
Tuesday – Friday
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