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09/06/2025

Dear Steward Leaders of the ADLA Community, Blessings!!

Please join us - in person - for the Metropolitan New York African Descent Lutheran Associations Fall General Meeting! Your opinion and ideas matter!!!

Positions Open for filling:
Vice-President
Recording Secretary
Scholarship
Youth

For these reasons we are calling a membership meeting for SATURDAY, September 27, 2025 at 10AM.

Location - Prince of Peace, Host congregation225-17 115th Ave, Cambria Heights, NY 11411.

See you THERE!

Yours in Christ,Sister Tammy Daniels, ADLA MNY President

African Descent Lutheran Association Metropolitan New York Chapter"God's Work, Our Hands"

01/07/2024

Join us next Sunday!!

06/25/2022

ADLA Special Virtual Gathering
July 9th, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. EDT
On Saturday, July 9th from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m. EDT, the African Descent Lutheran Association will host a free special virtual gathering with the theme: Things That Matter.

This event will include:

Devotional/Worship Experiences
State of the Association Address
Speaker Forum(s)
Chapter Updates
Churchwide Assembly Preparation/Advocacy
Affinity Breakout Rooms
We look forward to seeing you virtually in July! You may register for the Special Gathering by clicking the buttons below or visiting:
www.adlaelca.org/2022specialgathering

02/27/2021

MNYS Weekly Newsletter
Celebrating Black History Month
Learn more, here: https://conta.cc/3aXQn0l

02/09/2021

They Can’t Kill Us All
by Wesley Lowery

Wesley Lowery is an astonishingly young and talented reporter who covers race relations for The Washington Post. They Can’t Kill Us All, his first book, is a deeply researched exploration of the police shootings that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, and a candid depiction of what it’s like to be a black journalist investigating and often entering into highly charged situations between white officers and the black communities they police. The result is a critical early history of the 21st-century civil rights movement and an exemplar of disciplined and compassionate reporting.

Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose A New York Times bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Featured Title in The New York Times Book Review’s “Paperback Row” A Bustle “17 Books About Race Every White Person Should Read” A d...

04/27/2020

Prayer for Week 04/27 - 05/03/2020

Gracious and loving God,

We give you thanks for spared life and tender mercies.

Please look with favor upon your children of African descent who are suffering disproportionately from the ravishes of the Covid 19 virus throughout the world. We especially lift up Black and Brown people in the USA who lack health care, access to testing and treatment, proper homes to shelter in place, food, clothing and all that is needed to lead a good and peaceable life.

For too long, dear Lord, we have watched and waited, worked and prayed for the day when we would be treated equally by those who persecute us and have equal access to the things necessary to secure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

So. once again, we turn to you, Blessed Savior, as we share in your suffering, please grant us the redeeming experience to share in your victory over the cross and shame.

Grant us, that we will not only rise from the devastation of the Coronavirus, but also that we will rise high above all the life threatening situations that we as a community face on a daily basis.

Give us the privilege of knowing Jesus and the power of his Resurrection so that we can continue to fight this good fight of the faith, now and forever.

Amen

Prayerfully submitted by the Reverend Brenda Irving, Chapter President

Next week's prayer warrior: Sis. Nicole Hudson

09/09/2019

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06/12/2019

Yehiel Curry elected bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod



CHICAGO (June 11, 2019) – The Rev. Yehiel Curry, Chicago, was elected June 8 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The election took place during the synod assembly, held June 7-8 at the Tinley Park (Ill.) Convention Center.

Curry was elected on the fifth ballot, with 258 votes. The Rev. Heidi Torgerson, director for mission personnel and leadership formation, ELCA Global Mission, received 226 votes.

The bishop-elect has served as pastor of Shekinah Chapel Lutheran Church in Riverdale since 2013. He served as mission developer of Shekinah from 2007 to 2012.

Curry received a Bachelor of Arts from Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill., in 1995 and a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2013. The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago is one of seven ELCA seminaries.

He will be installed in October at a location to be determined.

The Rev. Wayne N. Miller has served as bishop since 2007 and will retire Aug. 31.

Information about the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod is available at mcselca.org/.

https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/7984

Spanning four counties, eight conferences, and over 180 congregations and worshiping communities, our synod works each day to support parishioners and Lutherans in Chicago and its surrounding area. As part of the ELCA, our mission is to share God's love made known to us in Jesus Christ.

06/07/2019

Beloved,

It is with a heavy heart, but a joyful spirit to inform you that our wonderful brother Deacon Homer Alexander has gone home to glory.

Details regarding his arrangements will be posted as soon as they become available.

Please keep his family and especially his church family (The Church Of The Abiding Presence) in prayer.