Category: Advocacy

LAMPa Welcomes Hunger Advocacy Fellow, Quentin Bernhard

LAMPa is pleased to welcome a 2023-24 ELCA Hunger Advocacy Fellow, Quentin Bernhard, to our team! The Hunger Advocacy Fellowship program provides young adults with a year-long experience serving with...

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God’s Love Made Real — Help Discern The Kind of Church That God Is Calling Us To Be

The ELCA is entering a time of discernment about where God is calling us as a Church. Future Church: God’s Love Made Real is the campaign shaping that discernment, in...

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Upper Susquehanna Synod Appoints Rev. Justin Lingenfelter to LAMPa’s Policy Council

Bishop Craig Miller has appointed the Rev. Justin Lingenfelter to represent Upper Susquehanna Synod on  LAMPa’s Policy Council. Lingenfelter serves as the pastor at United In Christ Lutheran Church in...

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Off to College? Remember to Register to Vote!

Do you know a student heading to college this fall? Freshman year is a time of big transitions, and voting may be one of them. Some students may be voting...

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A Call to Act as Church Begins 2023 Season of Creation: Let Justice and Peace Flow

The Prophet Isaiah proclaims: “Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even put...

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LAMPa Welcomes SWPA Synod Rep., Rev. Eric Damon, to Policy Council

Bishop Kurt Kusserow, of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod, has appointed the Rev. Eric Damon to  LAMPa’s Policy Council.  Damon is the pastor of Grace and Emmanuel Lutheran Churches in Manorville...

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SWPA Synod Appoints Amy Kelly to LAMPa’s Policy Council

This week, Bishop Kurt Kusserow of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod appointed seminarian Amy Kelly to fulfill the policy council seat left vacant with the hiring of  the Rev. Erin Jones...

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LAMPa Names Communications and Advocacy Engagement Manager

LAMPa is pleased to welcome the Rev. Erin Jones as our Communications and Advocacy Engagement Manager. Jones, an ELCA pastor serving in Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod since 2018, brings experience in...

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LAMPa Accepting Applications for 2023-24 Hunger Advocacy Fellowship

Are you (or someone you know) interested in a year-long transformative experience that combines leadership development and faith formation with advocacy that moves us toward an end to hunger and...

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PA Launches Statewide Food Policy Council

Pennsylvania’s first statewide Food Policy Council launched May 25 with its inaugural meeting at the state Department of Agriculture. Advocates, including LAMPa, have been working for years toward the creation...

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