The Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fires of Freedom and Cloud of Witnesses

House of Prayer Aliquippa, PA, United States

Join the SWPA Synod on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at House of Prayer Lutheran Church (2100 W Irwin St, Aliquippa) for The Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fires of Freedom and Cloud of Witnesses. Schedule for Sunday, April 7 2pm – Pre-Event in Aliquippa – more information to follow 4pm – Education time / Panel Discussion 5:30pm –

Human and Civil Rights Network Launch

Join leaders and advocates who care for LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice, and care for all people made in God's image from across the Commonwealth as for a time of connecting, sharing, and learning! Why join a network? The work of striving for justice and peace in all the earth can be lonely and exhausting – […]

Commemoration of the Emmanuel Nine 2024

Every year, the ELCA commemorates the Emmanuel Nine on June 17. The Emmanuel Nine are nine people who were shot and killed on June 17, 2015, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.  Our relationship to the shooter, as well as two of the slain, reminds us of

Juneteenth 2024

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, a time to gather in community and commemorate the official, announced end of slavery in the U.S., even if the history of oppression, racism, and anti-Black violence that characterized it are still part of our story in church and in the United States.  As ELCA Lutherans set free in