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November 7, 2022
August 2022
June 29, 2022
Easter 2022
January 31, 2022

Thanksgiving 2021
August 2021
May 25, 2021
Post Assembly letter
Easter Letter 2021
Ash Wed letter, 2021
Jan 8, 2021 Letter to the synod

Week of Advent 2
Nov 12, 2020
Oct 26, Re: BSA Bankruptcy

(Updated ELCA document from Bishop's Letter) Nov2020

Sept 22, 2020
July 15 2020
June 2, 2020
May 22, 2020
May 13, 2020 - Returning to in-person gatherings
May 7, 2020
April 7, 2020 - Easter Letter

Post CWA Letter (August 2019)
Summer Letter (2019)
Easter 2019
April 8, 2019
March 26 - Schantzenbach Retirement letter

2018 Christmas letter
Advent 2018
June 18, 2018 Reflection
Post-Election Reflection (in English) (In Spanish)
Summer Letter To Roster
Letter in Response to Orlando Violence
Report of Bishop Tracie Bartholomew to the 2016 Synod Assembly
Keeping In Touch- Changes to Staff, etc.
Gratitude and Joy in Our Life Together
Letter about Conversation with Race and Racism
Advent and Christmas 2014 Letter
September 2014 Letter
Advent/Christmas 2013 Letter
September 2013 Letter
Letter to Pastors on Same Gender Marriage
August 2013- Churchwide Assembly

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”