


An Easter Message from Bishop Kucharek
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Apr 19, 2025 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Most church-goers can tell you about Jesus’ resurrection on Easter morning. Many of us may even have their favorite gospel text of this event. Nevertheless, each time we hear this “old, old story of Jesus and his love,” as ELW hymn 661 describes it, we are invited to...
A Lenten Message from the Bishop
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Mar 5, 2025 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
This year, 2025, the Christian church commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Nicaea, a city in modern-day Turkey, is where the emperor Constantine convened a council in 325 A.D. to settle disputes in Christian theology and practices. It is...
A Christmas Message from Bishop Kucharek
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Dec 23, 2024 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
It can be said that night is a time when we are most vulnerable to distress. We might remember sleepless nights when a child’s illness, or our own, caused a fever to spike, coughing, congestion, or pain to escalate, or other maladies of body or soul to predominate....
A Message from Bishop Kucharek for the Pentecost Season
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | May 25, 2024 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
The Pentecost Season: A Call to Grow in Faith and Action The church’s calendar begins with Advent and continues through the seasons of Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Pentecost Sunday is followed by Trinity Sunday, the only Christian observance which...
An Easter Message from Bishop Kucharek
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Mar 26, 2024 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Christ is risen; He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia means “Praise the Lord.” In many congregations, the word Alleluia has not been sung during Lent; it has been “buried” during our Lenten worship as we journeyed with Christ through his passion and death. Now, on...Search
Recent Synod News
- A Pentecost Message from Bishop Kucharek June 8, 2025
- An Easter Message from Bishop Kucharek April 19, 2025
- A Lenten Message from the Bishop March 5, 2025
- A Christmas Message from Bishop Kucharek December 23, 2024
- A Message from Bishop Kucharek for the Pentecost Season May 25, 2024