Podcast

Welcome to the fourth and final episode of this year’s Advent podcast! In this episode, Pastor Jonathan Steiner, Director of Evangelical Mission for the South Dakota Synod and Associate to the [...]

Episode 3 features Pastors Joel and Aimee Pakan in conversation with Pastor Henrique Fleming of Grace Lutheran in Parker and Deacon Hannah Fleming of Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls. [...]

In this episode, our Communications Director and Companion Synod Coordinator Pr. Aaron Matson is joined by Pr. Kari Sansgaard, an ELCA pastor who serves as Avera Hospice Chaplain at Daugherty [...]

This year's Advent Podcast series begins with Bishop Constanze Hagmaier and Michaela Vanbrandwijk, a Funeral Arranger at Miller Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, discussing death and dying, how the [...]

Are you physically fatigued or experiencing exhaustion? "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46) Pause. Breathe. Wait. Feel the presence of God in this third week of Advent. Bishop Constanze [...]

Are you physically fatigued or experiencing exhaustion? "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46) Pause. Breathe. Wait. Feel the presence of God in this third week of Advent. Bishop Constanze [...]

Pastor Jonathan Steiner, DEM/Associate to the Bishop, sits down with Donna Wright (MS, RN, NPD-BC) to talk about our "emotional shortages." In this episode, we talk about compassion fatigue, [...]

This week we hear from Tami Steffensen, synod staff, and Karen Gieske from Luther Seminary talk about the shortage in "vocation." Perhaps you've heard of 2021 as the year of the "great [...]