Reconciling Works

The September 2026 Newsletter is here! Choose how you’d like to read it, either as a PDF or as an online Flip Book. Click here for a PDF. You can download and print the PDF if you wish. Click here for an online flipbook. Once you open the online flipbook you can make it full […]

💗💜💙 BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE BELOVED. FULL STOP. This Bisexual Awareness Week, ReconcilingWorks celebrates our bisexual siblings and the beautiful, expansive ways you reflect the diversity of God’s creation. You are beloved. You are sacred. You are created in the image of God. And you belong—fully—in the life, leadership, worship, and ministry of the Church. We […]

ReconcilingWorks extends deep gratitude and joy for our partnerships through the Reconciling in Christ (RIC) program. Beginning in 1983, the holy work of this ministry now represents 13% of ELCA and 7% of ELCIC congregations, synods, and ministries. On Mondays through September we are celebrating all RIC Partners who became RIC in September. Below is […]

ReconcilingWorks extends deep gratitude and joy for our partnerships through the Reconciling in Christ (RIC) program. Beginning in 1983, the holy work of this ministry now represents 13% of ELCA and 7% of ELCIC congregations, synods, and ministries. On Mondays through September we are celebrating all RIC Partners who became RIC in September. Below is […]

Every Reconciling in Christ (RIC) Partner has a story to tell—and we are excited to share another RIC Impact Story with you. Find the latest story on the ReconcilingWorks Stories of Impact webpage, a place dedicated to highlighting the ways RIC Partners are transforming their congregations, communities, and the lives of the people they serve. […]

Help ReconcilingWorks welcome a new Reconciling in Christ (RIC) community:   Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Their welcome statement reads: “Welcome to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church!  • Welcome to believers, non-believers, and questioning believers. • Welcome to life-long Lutherans, Christians from every tradition, and people new to the faith. • Welcome to people of […]

ReconcilingWorks extends deep gratitude and joy for our partnerships through the Reconciling in Christ (RIC) program. Beginning in 1983, the holy work of this ministry now represents 13% of ELCA and 7% of ELCIC congregations, synods, and ministries. On Mondays through August we are celebrating all RIC Partners who became RIC in August. Below is […]

As backpacks are packed, classrooms prepared, and a new school year begins, ReconcilingWorks holds in prayer all who are stepping into this season of learning, growing, teaching, and becoming. God of wisdom, wonder, and boundless love, Be with every child and young person beginning a new school year. May they enter their classrooms knowing they […]