The 2022 ELCA Youth Gathering will take place July 24-28, 2022, in Minneapolis, with the two pre-events, the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event (MYLE) and the tAble, scheduled for July 21-24, […]
ELCA Youth Gathering
Adventures of a Servant Youth Companion in Houston
Nicole Kiefer will be a sophomore this fall at Luther College. She is a Northeastern Iowa Synod WIYLDE Alumna and Synod Lutheran Youth Network leader. In this guest post she […]
Northeastern Iowa Synod to Host International Students from Companion Synods
Three international students, two from Namibia and one from Hungary, have been invited to travel with Northeastern Iowa Synod youth to the ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas this summer. […]
What We can Learn about Snapchat from the ELCA Youth Gathering
As I mentioned in last week’s post about Social Media at the ELCA Youth Gathering, the popularity of Snapchat turned out to be the biggest surprise. In 2012 it was […]
Behind the Scenes with the Social Media Team at the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering
As 30,000 youth and adults made their way to Detroit for the 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering, many excitedly tweeted and posted on social media. And to their surprise just about […]
ELCA Youth Gathering by the Numbers
What happens when 30,000 ELCA youth and their adult chaperones show up in one place? 650 people donated at least 8 inches of hair ( that’s about 433 feet of hair) […]
