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Title: ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Aug. 18, 2009
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 18, 2009  

>ELCA Churchwide Assembly, Aug. 18, 2009

Here are news reports from today's proceedings at the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis:

ELCA Assembly Host Synods Celebrate Diversity, Present Assembly with Gift
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4219

ELCA Assembly Asked, What's 'Our Witness?' by Presiding Bishop
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4220

ELCA Assembly Begins Work on "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust"
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4221

ELCA Assembly Begins Discussing Proposed Social Statement
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4222

ELCA Assembly to Consider $10 Million Fundraising Campaign for HIV and AIDS
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4223

ELCA Assembly Learns of Decrease in 2010-2011 Income Expectations
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4224

ELCA Assembly Told of Possibilities for Lutheran Malaria Initiative
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4225

ELCA Assembly Endorses Lutheran Malaria Initiative
http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4227

>John R. Brooks
>Director, ELCA News Service