Global Mission

Companion Synod Sunday

On January 20th the Oregon Synod celebrated our partnership with our brothers and sisters in Christ in the Evangelical Augsburg Church of Poland. We strive to know each other through communication and visits. We uplift each other’s ministries and visions. We pray for each other and the challenges we each face. We celebrate our relationship annually and jointly in each other’s synod.


COMPANION SYNOD SUNDAY LITANY
Companion Synod Sunday ~ January 20

An Invocation:

Leader:  Rejoice, people of God! Celebrate the life within you,
    and Christ's presence in your midst.

People: Our eyes shall be opened! The present will have new meaning,
   and the future will be bright with hope.

Leader:  Rejoice, people of God! Bow your heads before the One
   who is our wisdom and our strength.

People: We place ourselves before our God, that we may be touched and
cleansed
   by the power of God's Spirit.

Prayer of the Day:
Spirit of energy and change,
in whose power Jesus was anointed to be the hope of the nations;
be poured out also upon us without reserve or distinction,
that we may have confidence and strength to plant your justice on the earth
through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Affirmation of Faith:

We are not alone; we live in God's world.

We believe in God
who has created and is creating;
who has come in Jesus, to reconcile and make new.

We trust God
who calls us to be the church;
to love and serve others;
to seek justice and resist evil;
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.

Thanks be to God.


You are invited to use the following hymns:

LBW 359, ELW 650 - "In Christ There is no East or West"
WOV 717, ELW 819 - "Come, All You People"
WOV 755, ELW 576 - "We Are One in Mission"
WOV 710, ELW 496 - "One Bread, One Body"
WOV 650, ELW 866 - "We Are Marching in the Light of God"