- Anne Edison-Albright, pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Stevens Point, Wis., celebrates Mother’s Day with her son, Walter.
- Carnations are distributed at Hope Lutheran Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
- The All-for-One support group works on a Mother’s Day craft project at Messiah Lutheran Church in Vancouver, Wash.
- Students at the Dar al-Kalima Evangelical Lutheran School celebrate Mother’s Day with a carnival. Kindergarten students and their mothers are making Mother’s Day crafts at the carnival.
- All women at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Clifton Park, N.Y., receive a rose and are invited to a free Mother’s Day brunch.
- In 2013, Joe Troester, ELCA East Africa regional representative, offered a Mother’s Day tribute to the Central African Republic’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in theology, Antoinette Yindjara-Beanzoui: mother, grandmother, wife and pastor.
On Mother’s Day we celebrate all who nurture others and offer motherly love. We ask God to give them strength, hope and inspiration throughout the year.