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• Presiding Bishop Offers Overview of ELCA Assembly
     At an Aug. 11 news conference, the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA Presiding Bishop, and ELCA Vice President Addie J. Butler highlighted the ELCA strategic plan, the studies on sexuality and the importance of lay leadership.
     The churchwide assembly, the chief legislative authority of the ELCA, is meeting here Aug. 11-17 at the Midwest Airlines Center. There are about 2,500 people participating, including 1,031 ELCA voting members. The theme for the biennial assembly is "Making Christ Known: For the Healing of the World." more

• ELCA Presiding Bishop Says
  Keep Partner Church Decisions in Context
     Decisions of the recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church -- a full communion partner of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) -- must be kept in their proper context, said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop.  Legislative actions of full communion partners "ultimately do not determine" how the ELCA proceeds on similar issues.
     Hanson made the comments Aug. 10 in a joint meeting here of the ELCA Conference of Bishops and ELCA Church Council, preceding the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Aug. 11-17. more

• ELCA Treasurer Expresses Concern For Mission Support Decline

• ELCA Council Delays Establishment of Two Commissions

• ELCA Council Elects Advisory Committee Members

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