17 Sep 2024 0 Comment

Next LDA Executive Director Announced

*Photo: Ben Gray Dear Friends of the LDA: The Lutheran Diaconal Association is pleased to announce that Deaconess Adrainne Jean Gray has been called as the next Executive Director of the LDA. Adrainne currently is the LDA’s...
17 Oct 2023 0 Comment

Lisa Polito to Step Aside; Search in Process for New Executive Director

May 29, 2024 Dear Beloved Friends of the LDA, Our search process for the new LDA Executive Director is going well! We appreciate the work of the Search Committee, which shares this update: “The Search Committee is continuing its...
31 Jan 2019 0 Comment

DeacPost – Holding Hands

Holding Hands For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand;  it is I who say to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.’ -- Isaiah 41:13 She reached for my hand and, as I finished giving her the medicine, she gripped it...
24 Jan 2019 0 Comment

DeacPost – Taking Another’s Identity

Taking on Another's Identity “If you ask for anything in my name, I will do it.” --John 14:14 Identity. Today, the word has become a fearsome thing. We're told to be 'on guard'. There are those seeking to steal our personal...
20 Sep 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost “It’s Never Too Late!”

The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words, and apply your mind to my teaching; for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. So that your trust may be in the Lord, I have made...
13 Sep 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost “The Gift of Wisdom”

"...wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace." James...
6 Sep 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost “Saints & Sinners”

"(So then) with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin." Romans 7:25b It's called St. Paul's 'inner conflict' and, for Lutherans, it is highlighted by Martin Luther as "simul justus...
30 Aug 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost “New Beginnings” – Deaconess Diane Marten

"And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my Son, the...
23 Aug 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost

Jesus, Remember Me “Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.’’ Luke 23:42-43 Boarding a city transit bus, I thanked...
16 Aug 2018 0 Comment

DeacPost

"The 3 R's" - Deaconess Bev Lund "In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us" 2 Corinthians 5:19 “School days, school days,...