Memorials & Resolutions

Here you’ll find a repository for all Memorials and Resolutions adopted by the Delaware-Maryland Synod, going back to 2010. If you have any questions about these resources, please contact Synod Secretary Nancy Gordon. If you would like to be a part of Reference and Counsel, the group that reviews proposed Memorials and Resolutions and presents them to the Synod Assembly, please contact Pastor Mark Parker, Chair.

2019

Memorials

• Leader Expectations
• On Gun Violence
• Portico Benefits

Resolutions

• Reconciling in Christ
• Global Church Sunday
• Congregational Advocacy
• World Hunger

2017

Memorials

• Welcoming the Neighbor – Migrants and Refugees

Resolutions

• Welcoming the Neighbor – Migrants and Refugees
• Ecological Justice

2015

Resolutions

• Hunger
• Seafarers and International House
• The Campaign for the ELCA 

2013

Memorials

• Seminarian Debt Incurred through Inadequate Health Insurance

Resolutions

• The Relationship between the Order of St. Stephen, Deacon, in the Lutheran Churches and the Delaware-Maryland Synod
• Creation Care and Environmental Stewardship
• Regarding Prevention and Response to Crises with Rostered Church Professionals and/or Their Families
• PossABILITY Sunday
• St. Dysmas

2011

Memorials

• Designation of Voting Members at Synod ad Churchwide Assemblies

Resolutions

• To Promote and/or Add an African Descent Strategy to the Delaware-Maryland Synod
• Consecrations, Commissionings, Ordinations
• Energy Stewardship
• Disability Awareness Sunday