Saint Paul Area Synod, ELCA

Saint Paul Area Synod, ELCA The Saint Paul Area Synod is made up of 106 congregations and mission starts of the ELCA.

Within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a synod is an administrative and missional geographic region, overseen by a bishop who provides direction to staff, a synod council, and volunteers from its congregations for vision, support, and resources to carry out mission and ministry.

The Saint Paul Area Synod is pleased to announce our young adult summer interns! They're listed below with their home co...
06/10/2026

The Saint Paul Area Synod is pleased to announce our young adult summer interns! They're listed below with their home congregations, and where they are serving this summer:

AvaMarie Armbright (Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Circle Pines) - Union Gospel Mission
Caroline Brown (Augustana Lutheran Church West St. Paul) - Community Partners with Youth
Batt Clem (Christ On Capitol Hill, St. Paul) - Prince of Peace, Burnsville
Abenet Coltvet (Incarnation Lutheran Church, Shoreview) - Shobi's Table
Tommy Etten (St Michael's Lutheran Church ELCA, Roseville) - Daily Work
Elsa Houge (Gloria Dei Lutheran Church - St. Paul) - Augustana Lutheran Church
Audrey King (Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Paul) - Augustana Lutheran Church
Julia Ronning (St. Philip's Lutheran Church, Hastings, MN) - Merrick Community Services
Grant Siebert (Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, St. Paul) - Lyngblomsten
Lindsey Woestehoff (Farmington Lutheran Church) - Shobi's Table

This is the fourth year of this program, made possible by funding from The Planting Hope Campaign. Our interns may be leading VBS at a local congregation, preparing and serving meals, supporting dementia programs, or meeting with job seekers. The interns gather weekly to reflect on their experiences, build community, and share a meal. Pastor Bristol Reading again serves as the internship coordinator.

Thank you to everyone who has made this opportunity possible...from the site supervisors who oversee their work, to the pastors in their congregations who encouraged them to apply, to the donors who gave to The Planting Hope Campaign over these past years!

This week we celebrate with Pastor Bethany Ketchum, ordained today at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church in St. Paul. She...
06/06/2026

This week we celebrate with Pastor Bethany Ketchum, ordained today at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church in St. Paul. She has been called to serve as the pastor at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in St. Paul.

This week, the synod held its 2026 Honorees Luncheon at Como Park Lutheran Church to celebrate rostered ministers and c...
06/05/2026

This week, the synod held its 2026 Honorees Luncheon at Como Park Lutheran Church to celebrate rostered ministers and congregations with milestone anniversaries. Pictured here are the rostered ministers who joined us to celebrate 25, 40, 50, 55, 60, 65 or even 70 years of ministry! They include:
75 Years: The Rev. Paul Pallmeyer
65 Years: The Rev. Donald Tastad
60 Years: The Rev. Ronald Hackmann, The Rev. Thomas Heyd, The Rev. Arland Hultgren
55 Years: The Rev. Ronald Letnes, The Rev. William Thompson, The Rev. David Tiede
50 Years: The Rev. Christopher Becker, The Rev. Philip Holton, The Rev. Steven Nelson, The Rev. Craig Richter, The Rev. Russell Shook, The Rev. Christopher Thomforde, The Rev. Samuel Wolff
40 Years: The Rev. Mark Aune, The Rev. Cynthia Bullock, The Rev. Lloyd Menke, The Rev. Russell Myers, Deacon Diane Pearson, The Rev. Michael Peterson
25 Years: The Rev. Anita Hill, The Rev. Joy McDonald Coltvet, The Rev. Christine Olson Bingea, The Rev. Emily Rova-Hegener, The Rev. Joel Rova-Hegener, The Rev. Karen Stevensen, The Rev. Kathryn Tiede

Congratulations and thank you to them all! See the full photo album at https://bit.ly/26honorees.

We are blessed to have creative and hardworking church communicators in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Area Synods. Arou...
06/02/2026

We are blessed to have creative and hardworking church communicators in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Area Synods. Around 40 of them gathered at Mt Olivet Retreat Center today to learn some best practices around internal communications. Thank you to Kelly Champagne from Engagement Experts for sharing her knowledge with us! The day included time for rest and reflection and connecting with one another for ideas and support.

First synod staff outing of the season to Conny's Creamy Cone to thank Anne for working with us.
05/28/2026

First synod staff outing of the season to Conny's Creamy Cone to thank Anne for working with us.

05/27/2026

As the Rev. Patricia Lull prepared for her final Bishop's Report at our recent Synod Assembly, she asked our communications director to put together a video for it in response to a recent comment about how serious she always seems. Bishop Lull didn't see the resulting video herself prior to her report at assembly. It's safe to say she - and the assembly - got a big kick out of it! We hope you do, too!

05/26/2026

We take time each year at our Synod Assembly to recognize milestone anniversaries of rostered ministers and congregations, honor those who have retired during the past year, remember rostered ministers who have passed away and welcome those who are new to the synod. We invite you to watch this year's observances video!

Grateful to join others for the Spring Gratitude and Blessing breakfast and worship at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Twin Ci...
05/21/2026

Grateful to join others for the Spring Gratitude and Blessing breakfast and worship at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Twin Cities with youth and children ministers from Saint Paul and Minneapolis Area Synod, ELCA this morning. Grateful for the work of these creative and faithful servants. Chaplain Babette Chatman (Augsburg University) preached up a storm.

The synod's Safe Child and Vulnerable Adults Task Force (pictured at synod assembly last week) wants to help your congre...
05/21/2026

The synod's Safe Child and Vulnerable Adults Task Force (pictured at synod assembly last week) wants to help your congregation implement and maintain policies around child and vulnerable adult safety! Send your CYF staff, lay or council leaders to a Zoom session next week to get started: Wednesday, May 27 at 1 p.m. or Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Learn more and register at https://spas-elca.org/series/so-you-need-a-child-vulnerable-adults-safety-policy/.

A whopping 511 people joined us for Synod Assembly this year, which included 465 voting members, 24 advisors and 22 visi...
05/18/2026

A whopping 511 people joined us for Synod Assembly this year, which included 465 voting members, 24 advisors and 22 visitors! They came from 102 of our 106 congregations. We appreciated their enthusiastic participation, their flexibility with schedule changes and their patience in the dinner line. It was good to be church together with you throughout a packed agenda of reports, elections, worship and so much more. Watch for more assembly photos and coverage soon!

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