As a community of women created in the image of God, called to discipleship in Jesus Christ, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we commit ourselves to grow in faith, affirm our gifts, support one another in our callings, engage in ministry and action, and promote healing and wholeness in the church, the society, and the world.

Women of the ELCA has three publications that can help you in your personal growth as a Christian woman, as a leader, and as part of the community called Women of the ELCA.

Lutheran Woman Today (LWT) magazine for Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), brings an exciting mix of faith-in-life articles, theological reflections, devotions, and human-interest stories of comfort and challenge that lift up the mission of Women of the ELCA: to mobilize women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ. You'll look forward to each issue as it helps to illuminate the path you travel as a person of faith and connects you to women far and wide who share common threads of faith and commitment to building the kingdom of God.  Subscriptions ($11 per year) may be  entered on-line, by mail, or by phone: 800-328-4648. For details, see subscription information at LWT.

Interchange/Intercambio is the monthly newsletter of Women of the ELCA. It comes in English and Spanish (Intercambio) and is targeted to women's leadership in units, synodical organizations, and clusters and conferences. The newsletter contains devotions, new resource information, organizational information, a "leader to leader" column, programmatic information, and, periodically, resources for specific events, such as Women's History Month. The newsletter is available by subscription for $6 per year by calling Augsburg Fortress Subscription Department at 800-328-4648.
You also may download archived issues from the Web site.

Café, an electronic magazine that explores contemporary issues young women face, is a resource for those who want to build and deepen their sense of Community, Advocacy, Faith, and Enlightenment. Café, which incorporates a Lutheran perspective, is addressed primarily to women ages 20 to 35 and is viewed by people of all ages.
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Community, growth, and action - our three mission areas - are at the heart of the ministry of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Our three mission areas unite us in one mission, namely, to proclaim saving grace through Jesus Christ in all of life and throughout the world.

Our mission areas offer avenues for addressing our mission-related policies. Fro example, how do we approach peace from a community perspective? A growth perspective? An action perspective? These three perspectives provide balance and increase the organization's effectiveness.

Women of the ELCA is a community of women committed to growing spiritually, to praying, to studying the Bible, and to maturing in faith. Like the ELCA, this community of women has three expressions: the unit, the synodical women's organization, and the churchwide organization.
Our local expression is call a unit. Most of our units are congregational or intercongregational units. We also have special units, units formed in places or situations that do not provide a practical means for congregational affiliation (for example, a college campus). Women of the ELCA units are composed of individual participants. The women gathered in our units are the front line of our organization. Each participant provides energy and vision. Within the unit regular meetings take place, as women decide how to carry out missions of community, growth, and action.
Some units are composed of several small groups, often called circles. There is no limit to the number of small groups a unit can have. Within the unit or small groups, Bible studies, special programming, social ministry projects, and other learning and fellowship opportunities occur.
Conferences or clusters are groupings of congregations within synodical organization. Conferences/clusters gather for leadership development, training, and ministry. Conference/cluster planning committees and coordinators are important links between units and the synodical women's organization.
Women of the ELCA's synodical expression is 64 synodical women's organizations across the United States and the Caribbean. Each synodical women's organization has a board whose members are elected at the synodical women's organization convention by delegates from units. Some synodical women's organizations have conventions every two years; others have annual conventions. Each unit sends a delegate to its synodical women's organization convention.
Within the churchwide expression of Women of the ELCA, the Triennial Convention constitutes our highest legislative body. Delegates to this convention, held every three years, are elected at synodical women's organization conventions.
The Executive Board is elected to serve Women of the ELCA between conventions by carrying out the decisions of the Triennial Convention and by conducting the business of the churchwide organization. The Executive Board sets this organization's mission-related policies and triennium theme.
Women of the ELCA's programming The churchwide staff, led by an executive director, develops and implements programs for the organization. The churchwide staff is based in Chicago, Illinois, in the ELCA churchwide offices.
For each triennium (the three-year period between triennial conventions), the Executive Board selects the mission-related policies that lift up the triennium theme.

Women serve and witness and grow within each expression of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The mission areas generate opportunities for living out our mission-related policies within units, synodical women's organizations, and the churchwide organization.
Small groups within Women of the ELCA units pursue growth, community, and action in many ways. Many of Women of the ELCA's leaders are also leaders within the ELCA, offering their organizing and ministry skills to congregations, clusters and conferences, synods, regions, boards of other churchwide units, and churchwide initiatives.
Women of the ELCA participants express their thanksgiving for God's blessings through financial offerings gathered by units and at events of clusters and conferences, by synodical women's organizations, and at churchwide events. These offerings support the work of our organization and its ministries to and with people throughout the world. The women's organization also makes a major annual gift to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. A portion of the gift is designated for specific areas like domestic relief or global mission.