Southwestern Washington Synod E-News Week of April 10, 2022 DEMENTIA SERVICES at LCS NORTHWEST is pleased to announce a new FREE educational opportunity for Pierce County. Along with Dementia Friends, which is focused on building a dementia friendly community, Lutheran Community Services NW now offers Behavioral Interventions training. Focused on caregivers, families, and service providers, this program is designed to increase understanding of the behaviors of someone living with dementia, and to provide techniques and tips for those caring for them to help create a calmer day to day routine and increased quality of life for the person with the disease and their care team. For more […]

The April Synod newsletter, Moments for Mission is attached. It may also be found on our synod website at https://swwasynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Moments-for-Mission_April-2022-.pdf

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Palm Sunday (Sunday, April 10th)Procession of Palms @ 10:30 Service Maundy Thursday (Thursday, April 14th)  Maundy Thursday Service – 7:00 PM (In-person & Online).    Good Friday (Friday, April 15th) Stations of the Cross 12:00 PM  This will be held outdoors, please dress accordingly.  Good Friday Service  – 7:00 pm (In-person & Online) Easter Sunday (Sunday, April 17th)8:00 AM & 10:30 AM Services Reservations will be required for each service. You will be able to reserve your seats beginning Wednesday, March 2nd in CCB or by clicking the links below: April 17th – 8:00 AM Service *in-person April 17th – 10:30 AM Service *in-person & online

Even with the lingering threat and Russian military movements in recent weeks, the escalation of violence within Ukraine on February 24th came as a shock to many. The weight of grief is palpable as the people of Central and Eastern Europe shape their humanitarian response to the crisis in Ukraine.   The attached document from the ELCA and the Conference of Bishops outlines the Lutheran Churches that are working together to help those in the Ukraine, especially refugees from the Ukraine in Central Europe.  Please keep our companions and partners in Central and Eastern Europe in your prayers during these turbulent […]

  The Crisis in Ukraine and Ways to Help March 5, 2022 Dear Ones, As the situation in Ukraine continues to unfold, the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of a sovereign nation becomes more dire by the day. It is so easy to feel helpless in the face of such monumental, potentially world-altering events. But we are a people who pray, who are united in our common prayer, who believe that prayer does change things. So I ask you to continue to join me in praying for the people of Ukraine, for their protection and safety in the midst […]

Bishop Rickel’s Statement on the Invasion of Ukraine February 25, 2022 Dear Ones, Like many of you, I have been watching the news these past weeks with sickening dread as Russian forces have moved inexorably toward war and the invasion of Ukraine. There has been no justification for this act of brutal violence, hostility, and naked aggression. Already, innocent lives have been lost in this needless bloodshed. Throughout Europe, around the world, and indeed, within Russia itself, anti-war demonstrations are rising up to protest this assault on a sovereign, democratic nation. I ask you to join me in prayer for […]

Executive Order 9066 80 years later February 19, 2022 On this day, February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed this order and by so doing authorized the evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent, alien or non-alien, which were deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. In the next 6 months, over 100,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were moved to assembly centers. They were then evacuated to and confined in isolated, fenced, and guarded relocation centers, euphemously known as internment camps but much better described as concentration camps, or […]