2022 Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team assembly report
2022 Assembly Reports:
View reports for our 2022 assembly on our assembly report page and in this collection of blog posts.
In this report, the Grand Canyon Synod Stewardship Team updates us on their Generosity Project Holy Exchange project, made possible partially with help from a Grand Canyon Synod Grant.
Five multi-cultural worshipping communities within the GCS, five primarily Anglo partner congregations, and three campus ministries — with the learning shared with the entire GCS and beyond at the conclusion of the series of five workshops.
Two TGP:HE workshops have taken place as planned.
The first workshop was a collaborative effort between the Native American Urban Ministry (NAUM), Grace Lutheran, and students from ASU Lutheran Campus Ministry. 30 participants representing four decades gathered from 11am-2:30pm at Grace Lutheran, Phoenix.
The second workshop took place at Iglesia Luterana San Juan Bautista in partnership with Streams in the Desert and Un of AZ Lutheran Campus Ministry - all in Tucson. 19 participants representing ages 19-89 & seven decades gathered from 10am-2pm.
In each workshop the multi-cultural community provided foods unique to their culture for the shared meal.
The following desired outcomes were experienced:
Expanding one another’s understanding and awareness of God’s generosity present in the GCS’s diverse, multi-cultural communities of faith and its households
Recognizing the influence of each one’s culture and the impact of God’s Story in Jesus on our daily lives and choices as consumers and stewards.
Exploring the events that have shaped each person, culture and generations’ financial values and habits.
Recognizing God’s grace and generosity through intergenerational interaction, prayer, play, worshipmoments, a shared meal, and exchange of God’s Story and one another’ stories.
Acknowledging and celebrating the cycle of blessing that sustains our communities of faith and generations.
An unexpected positive outcome was the furthering and building of trust between the collaborating worshipping communities and varied generations. This aspect of the workshops had greater value and impact than we initially anticipated.
