
Nicole Kiefer will be a sophomore this fall at Luther College. She is a Northeastern Iowa Synod WIYLDE Alumna and Synod Lutheran Youth Network leader. In this guest post she shares her experience as a volunteer at the ELCA Youth Gathering, held July June 27-July 1 in Houston. This fall I will begin my sophomore […]

Three international students, two from Namibia and one from Hungary, have been invited to travel with Northeastern Iowa Synod youth to the ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas this summer. Marian Torodis will be coming from the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Republic of Namibia (ELCRN). Bishop Ernst GAMXAMUB from ELCRN was a guest of the Northeastern […]

What happens when 30,000 ELCA youth and their adult chaperones show up in one place? 650 people donated at least 8 inches of hair (that’s about 433 feet of hair) $402,000 was raised for the ELCA Walk for Hunger 1 million diapers collected 1,425 backpacks distributed 3,200 vacant lots cleared of debris 26 dumpsters filled […]