by Joshua Drobena | Aug 10, 2019 | News Releases
CHICAGO, IL (SZS) — Gathering under the theme “We are church,” voting members of the 2019 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) made a number of key decisions to further the mission and ministry of this church. The assembly,...
by Joshua Drobena | Jul 8, 2019 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CT (SZS) — This summer, our Synod is hosting two seminary students as participants in the Student Immersion Program of the Slovak Zion Synod. The program, which is part of the Synod’s mission in Central & Eastern Europe and is organized by...
by Joshua Drobena | May 19, 2019 | News Releases
Update: Added information about memorial service that was not previously finalized at time of original publishing. Article follows: The Rev. Melissa Dawn Fulmer Kuemmerle + 1965–2019 + Spes mea in Deo est With reverence and affection, our Slovak Zion Synod remembers...
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Apr 15, 2019 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Easter Changes Everything! For weeks, the commercial world has been preparing us for Easter. Ads and emails invite us to “hop to” the latest sales promotion, remind us to shop for that Easter dinner “with our peeps,” and try to entice us with an “egg-cellent” deal...
by Joshua Drobena | Apr 10, 2019 | News Releases
ZVOLEN, SLOVAKIA (SZS) — On Saturday, March 2, 2019 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession (ECAV) in Slovakia celebrated the installation of their new General Bishop, Ivan Eľko, their new Bishop of the Western District, Ján Hroboň, and their...
by Joshua Drobena | Feb 6, 2019 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CT (SZS) — As 2019 gets underway, we are inundated with numerous ads and promotions aimed at health goals, body image, and self-help in an attempt to address those traditional New Year’s resolutions. As Lutherans, we have an additional...