The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, presents gifts to members of an ELCA delegation who he met with Feb. in Istanbul. ELCA clergy and lay leaders are, from left, the Rev. Steven Loy and the Rev. Susan Langhauser, ELCA Church Council; Dr. Rocky Piro, Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Network; and Deborah Chenoweth, ELCA Church Council.
