Dayhoff Westminster: "God's Work. Our Hands." August 9, 2007 Lutherans Revolutionizing Identity Amid Membership Decline

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"God's Work. Our Hands." August 9, 2007 Lutherans Revolutionizing Identity Amid Membership Decline

BY LILLIAN KWON, CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER August 9, 2007 http://www.christianpost.com/news/lutherans-revolutionizing-identity-amid-membership-decline-28823/

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Evangelical Lutherans announced plans to revolutionize the way they communicate their identity to the public as a denomination.

In an effort to turn the tide on shrinking membership, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) – the nation's largest Lutheran denomination – is slated to unveil next month a branding campaign that will run ads in newspapers, billboards, bus shelters and websites with the tagline "God's Work. Our Hands."

"We've seen a decline in membership and in average worship attendance. We, together, intend to reverse these trends not by becoming something we are not but by revolutionizing the way we communicate who we are," said the Rev. Mark Hanson, ELCA’s presiding bishop, at the Aug. 6-11 Churchwide Assembly in Chicago, according to the ELCA News Service.

Hanson, who was re-elected to serve a second term, is confident that simple and powerful communication will help grow ELCA's evangelical outreach and help the denomination "step forward as a public church."

Each ELCA leader is also being urged to have at least one mentor and to serve as a mentor to at least one other person by 2012 – the year of ELCA's 25th anniversary – in hopes of growing membership in the 4.8 million-member denomination.

The ELCA is also moving forward in its Evangelism Strategy – a vision for the new century that was adopted in 2003. The strategy includes 172 new congregation starts – 53 percent of which are among people of color and/or people with primary languages other than English.

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