A potluck lunch will follow the service. Deacon Ellen is a graduate of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Oh. She was the CEO of Lutheran Services of Tennessee (now Inspiritus) from 2013-17.

A former deacon with a part-time leadership role in a regional Lutheran Church organization was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for two sex offenses, according to a news release. Macungie ...

A former deacon from the Lehigh Valley will spend decades in prison for taking a child out of the state for sex several years ago, according to authorities. George “Travis” Woodfield, 41, of Macungie ...

A permanent deacon in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, whose then-teenage son was molested by the priest he once served alongside, is now excommunicated after leaving his ministry, because he ...

Wyse talked about how two words can mean so much. She related this to words in the book "No Regrets" by Matthew Kelly and ...

Lutherans who comprise the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gathered from July 28 to Aug. 2 in Phoenix for the ...

Her church, a thriving 106-year-old congregation, has now been put in the impossible position of dismissing a respected and trusted deacon it overwhelmingly voted to ordain.

During Mass, the deacon carries the Gospel book and proclaims the Gospel reading and often preaches. Deacons, too, are most often connected with the church’s charity and social services.

St. Paul Lutheran Church will continue the celebration of its organ with a spring concert by Kathleen Cartledge, a deacon and director of music at the church. The Spring Celebration Concert will ...