Daily updates for the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly are available on Living Lutheran.
Rev. Yehiel Curry to serve as fifth presiding bishop of the ELCA. When Yehiel Curry considers his vision for the future of the church, he sees an important distinction. “Part of the work is naming it,” he said, “but that next phase is embodying it. Before he became a pastor, then a bishop, then the chair of the Conference of Bishops, and now presiding bishop-elect, he was a social worker, then a teacher, then in sales. “I went from being a social worker to a teacher in the same community where I was helping those families, and in both cases, what I learned is passion is very important. And if you can align a person’s passion with a need, then it doesn’t feel like work sometimes.
Key actions before the assembly include the social statement “Faith and Civic Life: Seeking the Well-being of All” and its proposed implementing resolutions; and proposed editorial changes to the social statement “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.”
Voting members will review proposed amendments to the ELCA’s constitution and adopt a budget. Other voting measures include electing 20 people to the Church Council and others to churchwide boards and committees.