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Excellence in Ministry, Unleashed (EMU.NJ)

A bold and imaginative initiative of the Religion Division of the Lilly Endowment Inc. to improve the economics of excellence for leaders and congregations in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the New Jersey Synod, and beyond.

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Creating a Culture of Generosity - One Teams Journey  (Video)

Congregational Culture of Generosity

The EMU.NJ (Excellence in Ministry, Unleashed) initiative was established in January 2016 to uphold the great gift of ministry that rostered leaders provide in service to our Lord Jesus Christ through the New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

EMU.NJ finds value in the significant relationships that exist between rostered leaders and congregations and is therefore established to strengthen those relationships so that ministry may be enriched in ways that are unencumbered for both rostered leaders and congregations. Workshops for treasurers, finance and stewardship teams are planned.  Clergy compensation consultations, ministry transitions, and congregational generosity ventures will round out a holistic approach to the training and support of leaders in the church to create a congregational culture of generosity in which we capture the freedom to:

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Live, Love, Lead Generously

1930 State Highway 33

Hamilton Square, NJ 08690

609-586-6800

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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