This blog post “Communicating Shared Values” is part two of a series designed to spark conversation! To read the previous posts in the series, you can view…

This post features information about ELCA World Hunger’s Daily Bread Matching Grants which support congregations and their partners as they work toward a just world where all…

What we are reading posts will feature articles, blogs, and books that the ELCA Innovation Lab is reading! These resources focus on innovation, equity design and design…

Over the past few weeks, hundreds of participants have taken part in small groups as part of ELCA Young Adults ABIDE ministry. ABIDE invites young adults ages…

This post features a story from The Rev. Matt Short, Director for Evangelical Mission, Greater Milwaukee Synod. In July of 2016, as a part of a three-month…

Introduction Have you or your worshipping community ever encountered a tough problem and found yourselves unable to come up with a solution? Then design thinking might be able…

  Open Doors supports ELCA congregations interested in meeting new people in this time of re-gathering in physical spaces Over the past 18 months, faith communities have…

People are lonely. A January 2020 survey from Cigna found that three in five US Americans are lonely, and we know loneliness only got exponentially worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers…

This is part two of a two-part introduction to design thinking. Part one is available here.  Introduction   Design thinking is a method for creative problem-solving that…