In this dramatic and very personal performance, Swenson portrays eight different characters (historical and imagined) as each responds to Jesus. Through the eyes of these characters, both comic and serious, the audience is challenged to see Jesus from fresh perspectives; not cold and distant, but as one who was intimately involved in the "nitty-gritty" of life.

Each year from April to June a remarkable thing happens across this church. We come together. Members of synods participate together in the work of the ELCA and like it! Congregations see the work we do together as the ELCA all across this country and around the world and have a sense that they are part of something greater than themselves and are proud of it. For a few shining days we believe and live the words of Paul: "So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another" (Romans 12:5). Keep reading...

Thank you for your prayers, partnership and support of the ELCA Malaria Campaign for World Malaria Day 2014.

Thanks to you and thousands of supporters like you, together we surpassed our goal of $250,000. Because of your overwhelming generosity, gifts for the ELCA Malaria Campaign totaled $300,000, given in addition to $100,000 of matching funds. We are able to launch work in Namibia this year. Thank you! Learn more