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2025 Assembly Partner Reports
Check out the 2025 reports from our ministry partners.
Loving Our Transgender Siblings
As followers of Jesus, we affirm every person’s inherent dignity and worth. We recognize that each individual is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. This truth is reflected in the vast diversity of human experience and expression, including the ways people understand and live out their gender.
Walking With Our Immigrant Neighbors
Statement on immigration signed by the six bishops of ELCA Region 1
Knit Together through the Land
A reflection from Pr. Melissa O’Keefe Reed on bearing witness to a “Land Liberation Horizon Action” in November 2024 organized by local leaders in Cove & La Grande in Eastern Oregon.
Welcome, Rev. David Eppelsheimer
Synod Mobility Specialist
Created to be!
Bishop Laurie reflects on the ELCA 2024 Youth Gathering in New Orleans
Bishop Laurie’s 2024 Assembly Reflection
Bishop Laurie reflects on the highlights from 2024 Oregon Synod Assembly.
Housing is a Fundamental Right
Bishop Laurie on the Supreme Court's decision in Grants Pass v. Gloria Johnson.
Welcome Pr. Christine Core!
Pr. Christine Core is the synod's new director of candidacy and SALM Program Coordinator.
Queer Enough
Queer Enough, strives to create an accessible space where queer folks in the Portland metro area can come to connect, grow, and make meaning together, exploring spirituality and queerness.