Saturday, March 28
9:30A–
12 Noon
Fellowship Hall
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Come! Ground yourself in the Good News:
NC WELCA Sandhills Conference Spring Gathering
hosted by St. Mark’s Women of the ELCA
St. Mark's Women of the ELCA are pleased to be hosting the Spring Gathering of the NC WECLA.
The program will feature our presentation: "We Stand for Her" as well as the election of Conference Presiders to 2-year terms, and collecting offerings to support these charitable groups:
Regular Offering to Reading Connections,
2026 Change for Change, (formerly Pennies Offering) for the Robeson County Church and Community Center & Fuller Center for Housing
In-Kind Offering for Southeastern Family Violence Center.
Registration deadline: March 20.
To register: send the total number in your group to Julie at news@stmarkslnc.org.
A free brunch follows the program.
We Stand for Her
The theme for the program is drawn from We Stand for Her written by Prairie Rose Seminole.
This program, chosen in memory of Maxine Amos a long time member of St. Mark's, will support our efforts in educating ourselves in standing for and bringing justice to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women everywhere. This gift is written by the director of the documentary “We Ride for Her.”
Prairie Rose Seminole will stand with us and guide us through her documentary, so that we will learn to stand for her—missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
We stand for her because we are sisters and as a community of women, it is what we are called to do.
The Time for Boldness
1 March 2026
by Julie Arndt, Messenger Editor &
Secretary, North Carolina Women of the ELCA
This image is the logo for North Carolina’s Women of the ELCA for the next two years. When the current board met for the first time together, creating it was one of our first tasks together. We considered a few other themes,, but settles on this one. It felt right. The image, we found in Google Images clip art and with some digital manipulation, this is where we landed.
I like it.
The fractured heart represents the conflict and confusion so many people live with in our time, the uncertainty that has become a fact of modern life. We don’t know what to trust, who to trust, what to believe. In the midst of the conflict, though, there is the certainty of God’s love for us, guiding, healing, comforting. It breaks through the cracks and sets us right.
As we have prepared for Bold Women’s Day this week, I have been thinking about this logo and the words behind it.
These are troubling times. And they are not times when we have the luxury of sitting back waiting for things to happen to us. “These are the times,” wrote Thomas Paine in the opening line of his "The American Crisis," pamphlet series back in December 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, “that try men’s souls.”
As women, as Christians, we are called upon to act boldly on our faith. Often as we act on our faith, our greatest support as women is other women.
The North Carolina Women of the ELCA encourage women in a variety of ways, offering financial help for those seeking ordination or desiring to become lay preachers or SAMs. The Christine Bohr Andersen Scholarship assists North Carolina women who wish to pursue a seminary education at an Accredited Institution.
Scholarships are available that enable women to attend gatherings and other events. Most recently the NC WELCA Board established one such scholarship in memory of Maxine Amos. The scholarship will assist women, especially women of color, to attend Triennial WELCA Gatherings.
Supporting Our Sisters is a fund established to help secure inspiring speakers for events, provide learning resources for our leaders, provide seed money for new ministries, and support for existing ministries.
Women empowering women. Support from our sisters encourages us to find our voices, to take a stand and demand justice, to speak truth to power, to lead protests, to write letters, to make phone calls, to feed the hungry, to offer comfort and prayer to those who need it.
Support from our sisters encourages us to boldly step out into the world and do something about the issues that cause us concern, the boldness to do more than sit back and let things happen to us.
Yes, our times try men’s souls, and women’s too.
But together, we will boldly join our hands and voices and step into the fray, knowing that our sisters and our Father have our back.
Now is the time to discover your own brand of bold.
We’ll be there with you.
WELCA Meeting:
Saturday, April 18
10A at 219 Elm
Attention, all women of the Word!
All are welcome to meet with us at 219 N. Elm, downtown Lumberton.
We will prepare for the Spring Gathering we are hosting as well as hold our monthly Bible study, and conduct our regular business meeting.
Contact Sandra at welca@stmarkslnc.org for more information.
The Women of the ELCA
The Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America includes Lutheran women who gather in over 7,000 locations in the U.S. and the Caribbean, for service, a study, advocacy, fellowship and more! Women of the ELCA embraces all kinds of ministries that support the mission of mobilizing women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ. There is a place for you in Women of the ELCA. We promote and encourage women to lead, serve, and advocate in the community, inviting women of all generations and backgrounds to experience the reconciling and transforming love of God through Jesus Christ, encouraging women to act on their baptismal covenant.
St. Mark's Chapter
St. Mark's Women of the ELCA is one of our most active ministries, reaching out to Lutheran Services Carolina, the Robeson County Church and Community Center, and the Robeson County Family Violence Center. Our women are active in the organization on a regional and statewide level, as well as the national level.
We enjoy our "girl time" in monthly meetings; we enjoy serving together; we enjoy worshiping together. Join us and celebrate sisterhood in Jesus Christ!
To join St. Mark's Women of the ELCA chapter please contact Sandra Britt at welca@stmarkslnc.org.
Mission Statement
As a community of women, created in the image of God, we are called to discipleship. As a group, we are empowered through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We commit ourselves to grow in faith; to affirm our gifts; to support each other in our callings; and to engage in ministries. We also promote the healing and wholeness of the church, the society, and the world.
What Does Our Logo Mean?
Our logo—with the cross, water and a white lily—identifies women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as children of God; baptized, forgiven, adopted into God’s family, full of grace and hope in eternal life.
It is a reminder of the growth, beauty, and vitality that rises out of that life-giving baptismal water.
It is also a reminder of the mission of the church to “Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).
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Additional Resources
GATHER, Women of the ELCA's official bi-monthly magazine. If you are interested in receiving a printed copy of it, please contact Sandra Britt at welca@stmarkslnc.org.
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