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Our PURPOSE is to live like Christ in our communities. The PRIORITY of our Synod is to have community-oriented pastors in all viable congregations. A key PRINCIPLE is to ensure reparative justice.
Single. Immigrant. Black. Gay. Trans. Divorced. Young. White. Disabled. Asian. Lesbian. Married. Old. Poor... JESUS DIDN'T TURN PEOPLE AWAY. NEITHER DO WE!
The MNYS Anti-Racism Committee is actively implementing anti-racism efforts, as this is an essential element of Bishop Egensteiner's 2025 Vision.
We envision a synod where everyone in every congregation is praying for every other congregation, one day at a time.
Supporters of LGBTQIA+ people and families are not the minority in our Lutheran church, but are the growing majority.
The ELCA is committed to accompaniment, advocacy and awareness-raising in the Holy Land and the United States.
Local Law 97 is one of the most ambitious plans for reducing emissions in the nation.
People Living within the Synod Territory
Baptised Members
Members in Weekly Worship
Congregations
Rostered Ministers & Synod Deacons
The territories of the Metropolitan New York Synod reside on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape, and Wappinger people; as well as those on [now] Long Island: the Lekawe, Merrick, Matinecock, Nissaquogue, Unkechaug, Secatogue, Setauket, Corchaug, Shinnecock, and Mannansett peoples. We encourage you to click the links and learn more about the Indigenous Peoples of our area, and hold their memory, and their descendants, in your prayers.