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Synod School turns 70, and robust worship and birthday cake help celebrate the milestone

Posted July 21st, 2024

Synod School, put on each year by the Synod of Lakes and Prairies, turns 70 this year, and so who else would leaders ask to preach during opening worship on Sunday than Elona Street-Stewart, a septuagenarian who’s the synod’s executive and Co-Moderator of the 224th General Assembly (2020).

The Stated Clerk, a traffic stop, a young teacher and her elderly students

Posted July 31st, 2020

The return of the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II to Synod School Thursday was powerful and poignant.

‘What will we tell them?’

Posted July 28th, 2020

Having as much fun as they could via Zoom, more than 330 Presbyterians gathered from across the country and across borders for the opening night of Synod School Monday. They were treated to a childhood faith story from the Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka and laughed with — not at — a Synod School mainstay, the Rev. Burns Stanfield and his online band of tie dye-clad musicians.