Winter Celebration, the Virginia Synod youth event for high schoolers was held this past weekend on January 24-26 at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Convention Center in Lynchburg. This year over 300 youth and adult participants engaged [...]
Lost and Found, the Virginia Synod youth event for 7th and 8th graders was held November 22-23 at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Convention Center in Lynchburg. This year nearly 200 youth and adult participants got to [...]
This past Saturday concluded the 2019 Fall ACTS (The Ambassadors Community for Theological Study) course in Waynesboro, Wytheville, and Hampton/Yorktown. This year’s fall course, “New Testament", focused on listening to the many different voices that [...]
From July 21-26, participants from across the Virginia Synod attended the Junior High Servant Event – our Synod’s week-long servant experience for rising 7th – 9th graders. This annual event has been hosted in Virginia [...]
On June 23, Carolina Bowen, a rising 12th grader and member of College Lutheran, Salem, checked in at Lutheran Summer Music camp at Valparaiso University in Indiana. After transformational experiences the past two summers, this [...]
The annual conference Power in the Spirit took place last week on the campus of Roanoke College in Salem from July 11-13. Together attendees from across the state gathered to explore the promise of baptism, [...]
A frequent question for high school graduates is, “So, what are you doing next?” and from there excitement, as well as anxieties, can start to appear as their answer is formed. What are college classes [...]
Kairos, the Virginia Synod youth event for rising 8th through rising 12th graders was held, June 23rd through the 28th at the campus of Roanoke College in Salem. This year over 140 youth and adult [...]
On May 10-12, 2019, young adults of the Virginia Synod gathered for a weekend retreat at Caroline Furnace Lutheran Camp & Retreat Center. This exciting new ministry, supported by the ForwardingFaith campaign, saw 14 young [...]
7th Day, the Virginia Synod youth event for 5th and 6th-grades was held over the weekend of March 2-3, at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Convention Center in Lynchburg. Over 160 youth and adults made up Shepard [...]
