Spirituality

Is there a yearning for something more in your life?

You're in good company. That "more" yearns in us and a lot of people we know. It's the call to faith that opens up a beautiful world.

Participation

Be part of what offers you and those around us well-being.

We all like to achieve success. Great joy comes when we gets things done with other people. We've got a lot in common to act together on.

Making New

Each day, cell by cell, with each breath, we're being made new.

The Spirit of the living God moves through the world, calling us to enjoy the new creation and welcome each other in love and forgiveness.

Congregations

The 186 congregations across Florida and the historic one in the Bahamas welcome you in Christ.

In Word and Sacrament, the Triune God blesses us with joy and strengthens us for service.

Leadership

Our rostered leaders includes 200 active pastors, 20 lay professionals, and three dozen lay deacons.

God calls many to ministry leadership, lay and ordained, professional and volunteer; discover your vocation.

Bishop-Elect

Bishop-Elect Acceptance Speech - audio recording mp3

Bishop-Elect Robert Schaefer closed his acceptance speech with this poem attributed to Teresa of Avila (1515–1582).

Christ Has No Body

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

The installation of the Rev. Robert G. Schaefer as Bishop of the Florida-Bahamas Synod, ELCA, is scheduled for Noon, Saturday, August 31, 2013, at St. Timothy Catholic Church, Lutz, Florida.

Synod Tweets

The Florida-Bahamas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

fbsynod | The Spirit of Truth will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that that the Father has is mine. -Jn 16

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fbsynod | Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? "The LORD created me at the first, before the beginning of the earth."

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fbsynod | When I consider your heavens, the moon & the stars, which you have set in place, what are humans that you are mindful of them? Ps 8

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fbsynod | O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, still be our guard while troubles last and our eternal home.

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