Events

“New Tax Law, New Ways to Give” is a workshop that will look at how the new tax laws might affect you.  If you currently take the required minimum distribution from an IRA or are a church leader concerned about how the new tax law will affect congregation giving, this one-hour session hosted by our…

Camp Mount Luther is participating in “Raise the Region” on March 14-15, 2018. The event, coordinated by The First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania, helps the community support local nonprofit organizations’ fund raising efforts.  FCFP, in partnership with Blaise Alexander Family Dealerships, will be launching the 30-hour fundraising event on March 14 and 15, 2018,…

Your marriage relationship is one of the things in life that provides the greatest potential for happiness. Is yours living up to this potential? Please make 2018 the year you resolve to attend a Lutheran Marriage Encounter Weekend to learn how to maximize the joy and intimacy that God intends for your marriage.  The following…

Multi-point pastors gathering from 11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. at the synod office.

Our synod has participated in Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic (LARC) dialog since its inception. Together with the Lower Susquehanna Synod, Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, we entered into covenant in 1993, committing ourselves to “leading the church to greater unity”. The commitments we made in that covenant continue to…

The Upper Susquehanna Synod and the Presbytery of Northumberland have come together to plan two work trips to Daytona, Florida. The first of these trips will take place May 20-27. You need not have any particular skills to participate in this trip, just a will to help those who have suffered loss from last year’s…

The Upper Susquehanna Synod Office will be closed on Friday, March 30, and Monday, April 2, 2018, in observance of Good Friday and Easter.  The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018.  If you have an emergency, please call the synod office (570-524-9778) and the voicemail will give you phone numbers…

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will join ecumenical and inter-religious partners for Act Now: Unite to End Racism April 3-5 in Washington, D.C. The focus of the three-day event will be…

Your marriage relationship is one of the things in life that provides the greatest potential for happiness. Is yours living up to this potential? Please make 2018 the year you resolve to attend a Lutheran Marriage Encounter Weekend to learn how to maximize the joy and intimacy that God intends for your marriage.  The following…

Charlene Rineer, the synod’s coordinator for the ELCA Youth Gathering, will hold a pre-youth gathering event on Sunday, April 8, 2018.  It will be at Camp Mount Luther’s Evergreen Center starting at 2:00 p.m. It is for all the leaders and youth from the synod who are going to the ELCA Youth Gathering.  This pre-gathering…