About the Blog:
This blog will help me report out on my ministry as bishop of the Northwest Intermountain Synod of the ELCA. However, the blog’s history can be traced back to January 2013, when Trinity Lutheran, Nampa received a Domestic Hunger Grant from ELCA World Hunger. I created this blog to help me (and occasional guests) share the story of what can happen After the Harvest. When the congregation stepped into affordable housing in 2014-15, this became the space to share our story. I have also used the blog to report on ELCA Youth Gatherings, post film reviews, sermons, newsletter articles, and links to writings published in actual publications.
About Pastor Meggan Manlove:
I grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota and spent many summer days paddling and portaging canoes in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and Minnesota. I graduated from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN and worked at Camp Christikon in Montana during the summers. I spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Syracuse, NY working at a Catholic Charities neighborhood center. I graduated from the University of Chicago Divinity School and was ordained in 2004. I served a congregation in rural Iowa for six years and moved to Nampa, ID in 2010 to serve as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church. At the April 2023 Synod Assembly of the Northwest Intermountain Synod, I was elected bishop of an area reaching from Leavenworth, WA to Jackson, WY.
A Place at the Table 
This is wonderful, Meggan. Pastor Chuck would be/is so proud. He lead classes using crockpots to help people utilize food from The Storehouse. Hunger, as I’m sure you already know is a passion of his that he instilled in the Social Ministry Team at CLF. Good luck on the grant. How can they say no! Kay F – Black Hills
Looking forward to having you as Bishop and following God’s journey for you here.
– Charles Reinmuth
Worship Coordinator
St. Luke Lutheran Church; Spokane, WA