Pastor Christopher deForest has been elected bishop of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod. He will be the fifth bishop of our synod, and his term of office begins on January 1, 2021. Chris is pastor at Trinity, Kutztown. Ordained in 2011, he served at St. John, Mahoning (Lehighton) until 2018. Previous to entering the Ministry

  On Thursday, October 1, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Bishop Zeiser hosted a final Zoom meeting to help synod leaders become more comfortable with the technology we will use at Assembly 2020. Click here to watch a video of them meeting.

  A new credence table was dedicated at Zions Evangelical Lutheran Church in Weatherly during worship on Sunday, October 4th. The table was hand crafted by Alyson Hoegg, a member of Zions and donated by Todd A. Gimbi, who also serves as Sacristan at Zions. The table was donated in loving memory of Joshua Cooper

  “God’s Mission Memos,” is a devotional booklet created by the Mission Support Team. It was written by Pastors Brandon Heavner and Michael Ware, and is designed to be used with congregational councils and other leadership groups as a devotion on how their mission support giving is helping to do God’s work in the world.

  Although not ideal, but still practical in a time of COVID-19, the Information Gathering Team supporting the election of the next NEPA Synod Bishop has recorded a presentation explaining the results of the in-person and online survey completed in February 2020.  The team wanted to make results available.  Two key links: The YouTube recording