Want to learn more about extending invitations and the meaning of hospitality? See the links and resources suggested below.

Note: The contents of the links listed below, except those that are part of the ELCA or Women of the ELCA Web sites, are not under the direction of the ELCA or Women of the ELCA; they are the responsibility of the individual Web hosts.

Women of the ELCA

Welcoming the stranger
This resource, Welcoming the stranger...a hospitality workshop, offers ways to invite new congregation members into your church community.

Summer Bible study in LWT
The three-session 2007 summer Bible study in the June and July/August issue of Lutheran Woman Today encourages us to "Act Boldly for Mission." Author Kelly Fryer will energize Bible study participants with her vibrant writing and deep faith. This study explores how women can boldly take part in God's mission to love and bless and save the world. To be the church, she says, is to participate in that mission by sharing the good news about Jesus Christ in word and deed.

State of the ministry
Linda Post Bushkofsky, executive director, Women of the ELCA, reminded leaders at the 2007 Conference of Synodical Presidents to extend invitations to young women. Her report shared responses from a question that was asked at the 2006 Youth Gathering.

Article

"Listening to younger women" by Linda Post Bushkofsky, Interchange, March 2007.

Book

The Lutheran Handbook: A Field Guide to Church Stuff, Everyday Stuff, and the Bible, Augsburg Fortress. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005.

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