Each new ministry can be selected either by state or by the category of ethnic group it serves. Those ties, he stressed, aren't just between whites and non-whites. The conference is sponsored by grants from Lutheran Brotherhood and Wheat Ridge Ministries. With 13 new ministries started, the Synod only has 987 more to go, Scudieri jokes. In light of how the demographics of the United States is changing, Lutherans really have no choice, notes Scudieri.
Rainbows are more beautiful in the full spectrum.