This summer, from July 18-22, the high school youth of Salem have a wonderful opportunity to join with 38,000 other Christian teenagers in New Orleans for the ELCA National Youth Gathering. The theme this year is “Citizens with the Saints,” based on Ephesians 2:14-20. That text reads:

“Jesus is our peace. In his life and death on the cross, Jesus broke down the dividing walls so that we are no longer strangers and outsiders...”