During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities across Indiana and Kentucky saw significant increases in suicides and other mental health challenges. Some of the congregations in the Indiana-Kentucky Synod, including Christ the King Lutheran Church in South Bend, IN, took practical steps to help those struggling with mental health issues.
Alice and Dave have been active in Lutheran and Episcopal settings in many capacities for as long as they can remember. Alice surveyed for new church start locations in Indiana, Michigan, and the Carolinas as a college student in an ELCA predecessor, the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA). Meanwhile, Dave shared his fiscal management experience in Episcopal circles.
