Augustus Lutheran Church - Women of the ELCA

11/17/2025

💚 Giving Tuesday, a global giving holiday, is December 2.

🧂Every week we will be sharing SALT stories on social. Read one SALT story by Elizabeth, WELCA staff, about her friend Terri.

Learn more about Women of the ELCA’s SALT Appeal and the $50,000 matching opportunity.

✨We hope you’ll share your SALT stories in the comments.

11/15/2025

"The Holy Spirit is the love of God reaching out to you when you are too depressed, or too angry, or too tired to reach out."

--Fleming Rutledge, "Exhausted? The spirit reaches out," Daily Grace, November 15, 2023

https://www.womenoftheelca.org/blog/daily-grace/exhausted-the-spirit-reaches-out

10/28/2025

10/27/2025

2025 Thankoffering Service (in-person) Wartburg College Chapel

Sunday, November 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

🍂💚 You are invited to attend the 2025 Women of the ELCA (WELCA) Thankoffering worship service that will take place at Wartburg Chapel on the campus of Wartburg College (100 Wartburg Blvd. Waverly, IA 50677) on Sunday, November 9 at 6:30 pm (CDT).

✨Watch the livestream on https://welca.org!

Download the 2025 Thankoffering Service in English and Spanish. https://www.womenoftheelca.org/thankofferings

10/25/2025

Creator God, Rock us out of our comfortable places and give us patience when our plans don’t come about. Remind us to believe when we are fearful. Help us to realize that your plan is the best one. Amen.

Adapted from “Faith lessons along the way,” by the Rev. Tiffany C. Chaney, Boldcafe.org, September 2016.

10/24/2025

"We are called to speak and act; We are called to do it boldly." Read our current Boldcafe issue!

💥May we use our voices by The Rev. Joy McDonald Coltvet
How can we use the gift of voice to do justice and love kindness?

💦Faith reflections: Faith in action by The Rev. Emily Hartner
How can we put our faith in action for justice?

☕Join us for our next Boldcafe Dinner, November 20

💗Register for the Women of the ELCA Triennial Gathering, Des Moines, Iowa July 2026

https://conta.cc/4oEEfom

10/17/2025

God’s work comes into being in ways we don’t always choose, disrupting our carefully planted rows of plans. Yet somehow it brings about life and joy, creating a space of safety and goodness for all creation.

--The Rev. Sarah Olson-Smith, “Jesus and nature: Teachers of faith” Gather magazine, October 2022. Today we commemorate Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, martyr, c. 115.

10/13/2025

Today we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Wanda Frenchman an Indigenous leader in the church, shares how her experience of being new in the faith, shapes her ministry today. Read more in today's blog.

https://www.womenoftheelca.org/blog/post/accepting-not-just-welcoming-2

10/05/2025

Women of the ELCA is excited to announce the United Women in Faith Assembly 2026 DREAM IT! BELIEVE IT! DO IT! | Indianapolis, Indiana | May 15–17, 2026

This time for women to share their dreams, anchor themselves in faith, and build an action plan to help make the world a more just and loving place includes Stacy Abrams as a keynote speaker! Interim Executive Director, Jennifer Hockenbery, will be a panalist.
To learn more and to register: https://assembly.uwfaith.org/ereg/index.php?eventid=821058&categoryid=5782466