Two Episcopal bishops, one UCC Conference Minister, one Exec Presbyter, one Stated Clerk, three United Methodist current/future conference staff, and three NWIM Synod: ELCA staff were together last Monday through Wednesday. We spent three days together at St Gertrude’s Monastery. Thanks to Wartburg Theological Seminary‘s The CaSTLE Project Grant for funding our rural ecumenical experiments, including this retreat. We taught one another about our worship, preaching, and polity/governance. As we wrote in our grant proposal, we are deeply committed to partnering so we can better share Jesus and Jesus’ love.

It was also delightful to pray Morning and Evening Prayer with the Sisters of St. Gertrude’s and to see the monastery and Camas Prairie blanketed in snow!