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2021 MINISTRY MAGAZINE WWW.RMSELCA.ORG/MINISTRY-MAGAZINE
Friends in Christ, Indeed, the Church is always open- gathering, serving, worshipping, and proclaiming the Gospel. Alongside our congregations, our partners in ministry adapted and responded to the challenges and needs of their communities and those they serve. Our ministry in 2020 included digital and distanced camp, meal delivery to college students, advocating for vaccine equity and hunger policy, ministry transforming World Hunger grants, and much more. We are a church becoming, and the ministry and witness of our ministry partners continues to shape this unfolding story of who we are. In Gratitude, Bishop Jim
The Stories We Tell: RMS Ministry Partners
Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp
Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp
RMS Women’s Organization
Lutheran Campus Ministry CU-Boulder
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-CO
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-NM
Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountain
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Urban Servant Corps
Veteran Servant Corps
RMS Hunger Network
Excellence in Leadership
RMS Development
Educate, Equip, Enact (3E)
Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp
A Year of Change and Transformation
Sky Ranch continues to focus on our
commitment to “Facilitating an
encounter with Christ on the mountain
tops.” During last summer’s Black
Lives Matter movement, our summer
staff asked the board to consider if
camp really was open and welcoming
to all. The board could have given an
excuse of having other important
matters to attend to, or simply said we
affirmed we are welcome to all,
“The ministry of Sky Ranch exists instead the board created a task force
in context, being the influencer as to explore what actions we could take
well as being influenced by events. to address this question.
Yet by the grace of God, we always
give witness.” We engaged pastors Barbara Berry-
Bailey and Richard Gianzero, to lead
2020 was an unforgettable year in the Courageous Conversations for the
life of Sky Ranch, a year full of task force, staff, board, and members
surprise, grace, and resurrection. It is of the Urban Servant Corp. We met
a year that will forever be twice a month, September 2020
remembered for COVID and the through February 2021. Through
Cameron Peak Fire. It is a ministry conversations and readings, we are
that shaped the faith of tens of looking to see what prevents us from
thousands over the past 57 years. being truly inclusive. Sky Ranch
2020 was no different…although it continues the work of ensuring all can
looked radically different. have an encounter with Christ on the
mountain tops.
Despite Covid restrictions and fire
Questions for Reflection
evacuations, summer staff were hired,
trained, and empowered to share the
• What is one positive thing
gospel in new, creative ways.
that has changed in your
Campers, who were unable to gather
life/ministry this past year?
on the mountain top, were still
touched by this ministry. And because • Where do you feel most
of your incredible support to help welcomed and why?
restore and rebuild, campers will be • How might humility help us
able to join us again in 2021. define “neighbor” more
inclusively?
Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp
Living Into The
Possibilities
Bible Studies were richer and deeper.
We had campers who have been
coming for ten years who said this was
their best week of camp at RTLC ever.
We ended up having four weeks of
youth camp and one week of family
camp in person on site.
By the grace of God and the hard work
of our staff, we had no cases of COVID
with staff or campers during the whole
summer. In all, we served 818
What a summer! A summer none of us campers: 440 campers on-site, 345
could have ever imagined. As an campers through 22 online Day
organization, Rainbow Trail chose not to Camps, 33 campers through
close in 2020, but rather to live into the backpack, along with 62 summer staff.
possibilities of what this summer could be.
The RTLC Board made the decision in As we look back on this summer, we
March to hire and pay our summer staff no know we provided something that
matter what. There was a strong sense people needed. We knew there were
that we needed to be the church now and some risks involved, but there will
not wait until this pandemic was over. always be some risks in any summer.
The summer ministry team was
We created over 40 pages of COVID
phenomenal. They were courageous,
protocols, created a brand new website for
adaptive, inventive, persistent,
RTLC@HOME for our online camps,
innovative, fun-loving, adventurous,
recorded over 14,000 temp checks, and incredible problem solvers, and true
recorded close to 50 hours of video. followers of Christ.
Our first week with campers on site was
Questions for Reflection
July 5-11. There were several changes
with protocols and all of us wearing masks. • What has been the thing in
But even with masks, it still felt like camp. your life where you knew
“Mask up, Mask on!” became a mantra there was going to be some
every week. We found that, because risk involved, but once you
villages had to stay together more than did it, it was a game changer
normal, they became closer than in other for everyone involved?
years. • What does it mean to be the
church in this day and time?
Rocky Mtn Synodical Women’s Organization
Detour Ahead
So, what does the rest of 2021 entail?
The Churchwide Women’s 11th
Triennial, “Just Love,” will be a Virtual
-Digital convention held August 3-5.
The RMSWO Fall Convention will also
be virtual/digital and will take place
Friday, Oct. 8 and Saturday, Oct. 9.
A year ago, the Rocky Mountain With few women’s groups meeting in
Synodical Women’s Organization had person, and then not collecting
a busy year planned! Some of us offerings, financial support for the
were to attend the 11th Triennial churchwide organization dropped off
Convention and Gathering in Phoenix, dramatically. As of Feb. 1st,
Arizona and our own Synod Women’s Churchwide Women of the ELCA is
Convention was to be held last fall. keeping only two staff on full time, with
But, of course, last March, along with the remaining staff cutting back to
everyone else, we found ourselves part-time. During these continued
having to take a DETOUR from what difficult times, the RMSWO remains
we knew to be normal schedules and committed to helping women in crisis,
routines. During the past year, with families in need of food and shelter,
the Lutheran Center in Chicago and helping to end sex trafficking of
closed, the Women of the ELCA our young people.
Churchwide staff began working from
home. The Rocky Mountain Synodical Julie Elmquist, president, RMSWO
Women’s Organization (RMSWO) sjelmquist@msn.com
board continued to meet, but by Zoom
instead of in person or by phone. Questions for Reflection
Many congregational women’s groups
either ceased meeting in person or What women do you know who
began Zoom Bible studies. Quilting, need some support – materially,
sewing and craft groups, however, emotionally, spiritually?
managed to be productive as many
groups continued to deliver quilts and What can you do to lift up the
kits to the Urban Servant Corps in women of your community?
Denver for Lutheran World Relief.
Lutheran Campus Ministry at CU Boulder
year olds. After a couple of weeks of
gathering outside it seemed that our
weekly Tuesday night meals had come to
an end.
Then inspiration struck. If students
couldn’t come to us, then we would go to
them. We sent word out to our regular
dinner hosts and in just a couple of days
we had prepared and delivered over 50
meals to homebound students.
It was a massive undertaking. Our staff
The heart of our ministry is a weekly, had to navigate a menagerie of dietary
Tuesday night meal that we call, requirements. Some homes had vegans.
‘Bread+Belonging.’ It’s a project we Others were gluten-free. There were dairy
support along with St. Aidan’s Episcopal and nut allergies. And yet, working with
Church. In normal times it’s a place where members of local congregations, each
students get to stop, take a breath, share week for a month students and their
a meal, and a place where students know roommates received a warm meal.
they belong.
With the help of over a dozen of our
We spent last summer figuring out how to supporters, through financial gifts, in
keep our weekly, Tuesday night dinners October we helped over 200 students
going, but now, outdoors with social stay connected to a community that
distance. Before that first Tuesday night cares for and supports them.
of the fall we tried to take every detail into
account. There were chalk arrows and Campus Ministry during a pandemic has
signs. We carefully arranged the tables been far from perfect. It is not what it
with placards that said how many people should be. Still we have faith that it will be
could sit at each one. enough to see us through.
Then the students arrived. They paid
particular attention to our instructions.
After they picked up their food they Questions for Reflection
walked right past our carefully aligned
tables, sat down on the ground, and • What unrecognized
formed a large circle (still responsibly resources can your
distant). After six months of isolation, community utilize for
more than anything, they wanted to see ministry?
each other’s faces and to reconnect.
• How has your community
In October rising COVID cases led the supported young adults
City of Boulder to implement a month- during the past year?
long lockdown that applied only to 18-22
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry-Colorado
Loving Our Neighbors through Better Policy
The ELCA has long been committed to
the abolition of the death penalty in favor
of an alternative vision of criminal
rehabilitation. In 2020, by joining our
voices with hundreds of people of faith
leading the way, abolition finally became
a reality!
In the fall, we supported ballot measure
campaigns that lived in a primarily digital
realm. One successful effort was the
At its core, advocacy is a ministry of loving passage of Proposition 118, creating a
our neighbor. As the church engaged in paid family and medical leave program in
the public square, we speak to the policy- Colorado for the first time.
making arm of our government on the
basis of our theology and social teaching. As we all adapt to new realities launched
We seek to accompany people in by the pandemic, we have found that our
Colorado who are experiencing hunger, core advocacy message remains the
poverty, homelessness, and other same: we are called to love our neighbor
realities that can be addressed through as ourselves, and so we fight for policy
better policy. that supports our vision of world in which
all of God’s people are fed, housed, and
In 2020, the Colorado legislature split its cared for, and in which the dignity of each
session into two halves due to the onset child of God is respected.
of the pandemic. Lutheran Advocacy held
its annual Day at the Legislature on Questions for Reflection
February 27, 2020, with little notion that
the world would very soon look quite 1. What does it mean to love
different. Nonetheless, Lutherans met our neighbor as ourselves?
with their elected leaders to discuss a Who is our neighbor?
variety of issues, including election 2. How does God’s call impact
reform, housing, and the death penalty. the way we show up as
members of the body politic?
We vocally supported the successful 3. Besides advocacy, what are
passage of Senate Bill 20-100, which other ways we can show up
ended the use of capital punishment in in public as the church?
Colorado.Lutheran Advocacy Ministry- New Mexico
Church Becoming
Successful advocacy, dependent on
building relationships with legislators
and other state officials in-person could
indeed be done online. Legislators,
advocates, and the citizens of N.M.
could learn to interact in Zoom meeting
rooms, impacting policy, and causing
transformational changes. New
Mexicans would participate in the
legislative process in record numbers
due entirely to the new online access.
As the 2020 Spring Meeting of Lutheran
Advocacy Ministry – New Mexico’s LAM–NM is a ministry of the Rocky
Policy Committee came to an end, Mountain Synod in partnership with
members had no way of knowing the ELCA World Hunger. We advocate for
long and challenging road that would justice in public policy, with a particular
be traveled over the next year. Indeed, emphasis on alleviating poverty and
meeting and advocating in person hunger. We support ELCA members
would become impossible, coalition and congregations, our extensive
work would transform, engaging ecumenical and interfaith partners, and
congregation’s advocacy was put on the New Mexico Conference of
hold for much of the year, and two Churches in the ministry of advocacy.
special sessions of the New Mexico LAM-NM speaks on behalf of the official
legislature, and one 60-day regular positions of the ELCA as applied to the
session, were held entirely on the Zoom specific context of public policy issues
format. It was indeed a year of in New Mexico.
transformation and learning, one of
“Church Becoming” in the ministry of
Questions for Reflection
advocacy.
1. How does your faith impact your
What was learned and what positions on public policy in your
transformed? New Mexico’s already state? Should it?
existing crises in hunger, poverty,
housing, and healthcare, would become
2. How can you and your church
worse than they already were. Racial
engage in making systemic change
and cultural injustice in public policy
up-stream?
would become far more obvious.Rocky Mountain Synod Hunger Network
A Time for Deep Learning and Conversation
every month. The Zoom link and topic
will be on our synod webpage. Just
drop in. No commitments, promise!
We also want to hear how your
congregation is involved in bringing
about a just world where all are fed.
You do the talking; we do the listening.
Maybe you have a poverty ministry
What a time this has been for all of us! housed in your congregation, maybe
The old ways of doing ministry have you are partners with a community
been turned upside down. But, in many ministry, whatever! Fighting hunger
ways, the Era of Zoom has enhanced includes everything from housing to
our work. education. Let us hear from you
through the webpage link or via email
With a virtual team retreat and our to: mcdivittc@mindspring.com.
ability to have 12 people participate in
the January ELCA World Hunger Justice ministry is happening all across
Leaders Gathering, we learned that our synod: from congregations in
deep conversations are possible even Albuquerque joining forces to add a
in a time of social distancing. staff person for a feeding ministry
because older volunteers were
The depth of learning has also restricted during COVID to seven-year-
increased in the time of Zoom. All the old Aaron Carson sending $6 from his
sessions of the Gathering were birthday money to ELCA World Hunger
recorded, and we have been able to and challenging others to match it
view them again and again. We can because his family has enough food
also share them with anyone who every day and other people do not.
wants to learn with us.
Questions for Reflection
During our regular monthly meetings,
we learned about the ministry being • How does racism impact hunger?
done by two of our Domestic Hunger • Before your congregation starts
Grant recipients: Posada in Pueblo, or participates in a poverty
CO, and New Beginnings inside the ministry, how do you know where
Denver Women’s Correctional Institute. there are gaps in services?
• How is rural poverty different
Now, we invite anyone to learn with us from urban?
at 6:30 pm on the second Tuesday ofLutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains
Rebuilding Together
Since last year, our Lifework Aging
Solutions program has been making
weekly deliveries of meals, and much
needed supplies to older adults
throughout the Metro Denver area.
In Albuquerque, LFSRM staff has
been working in the community
helping to disseminate COVID-19
Like you, we too are learning a new information in different languages,
normal. During the last year we have including testing, quarantine
had to discover new ways to serve the assistance, vaccine information, and
most vulnerable in our communities, more. Through their efforts and with
and new ways to provide services, assistance from community partners,
and new ways to stay connected to staff has been able to deliver food,
our supporters. Through it all, LFSRM rental assistance, diapers and more to
team members throughout the Rocky stabilize families, find new
Mountain Region have continued to employment to alleviate financial
navigate these changes helping stress, and rebuild their lives after the
hundreds of people who seek help, pandemic.
healing and hope from LFSRM.
Thanks to the support of partner
At the onset of the pandemic, many of organizations and congregations,
our family support programs were neighbors, and communities, LFSRM
closed, only reopening with new remains committed to building
procedures and strict CDC guidelines. stronger individuals, stronger families,
Staff remained connected to families, and stronger communities.
assessing their needs, and delivering
food and basic supplies. Many of the
Questions for Reflection
families served through these support
programs were already near crisis and
the home environments for children • How has your ministry
were difficult. It has been especially adapted in this past year?
imperative even during quarantine to • What adaptations have
continue to connect with these brought new life to your
families. ministry?
• What changes will remain
post-pandemic?Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Neighbors in Need
The family of five had lived in the US for
about eight months and were just starting
to establish themselves. Despite several
efforts to apply for unemployment
insurance and grants, the family was
unable to secure any other sources of
income.
Their savings had dwindled to less than
$200 when they received news that the
Neighbors in Need fund would pay for
their next month of expenses. They were
so grateful and relieved to learn that they
would not have to choose between
paying their bills and feeding their family.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, LIRS
knew we had to take action for the Their story highlights the unique
immigrant and refugee community. vulnerabilities that many refugees and
immigrants face in this pandemic,
Our New American family members were particularly in light of limited and lacking
hit hard by COVID-19 and its effects; federal aid, and underscores the essential
many lost their jobs in the service, role LIRS’ Neighbors in Need fund plays
hospitality, and production industries, in filling the gaps during this
while many more risked their lives on the unprecedented moment in American
front lines of healthcare and food history.
production. Many of our immigrant
brothers and sisters were excluded from To learn more about the work of LIRS in
government stimulus packages, while this critical time, visit LIRS.org
others were hesitant to get medical care
for fear of retribution.
We established Neighbors in Need as
an emergency fund to serve these critical Questions for Reflection
needs. In just four months, we were able
to provide $342,000 of emergency Read Matthew 25:34–40.
financial assistance to 361 at-risk families
who suffered illness, job loss, or other
What parallels do you see between this
hardship due to the crisis.
passages and life around us today?
How would you describe God’s attitude
One such family in Minnesota found toward migrants? How might your
themselves unable to afford rent after the congregation be called to accompany
father was laid off due to the COVID-19 our refugee and migrant neighbors?
pandemic.AMMPARO
Guardian Angels
Although COVID halted in-person
court watch, I have continued to seek
opportunities to advocate for justice
for migrants and refugees through
LIRS and other organizations. As
unaccompanied children and families
continue to arrive at the southern
border it is urgent that we join with
other people of faith and goodwill to
continue to advocate for
comprehensive reform to repair our
broken immigration system and
Until the pandemic led to the address the underlying injustices that
shutdown of immigration court in the drive people to flee their home
Spring of 2020, I was participating in countries.
the ELCA AMMPARO “guardian
angel” program in Denver. In groups
Carolyn Swenson
of two, we observed court days on
St. Paul Lutheran and Catholic
days when unaccompanied minors
Community of Faith Denver, CO
from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador were appearing before an
immigration judge. We would We will have a Migrant Ministry
meeting with Mary Campbell, director
introduce ourselves to the children
of ELCA AMMPARO, on May 22 at
and family members (if present) while
they were waiting for court to begin. 10am via Zoom. For more information
We would tell them that we were email rmsammparo@gmail.com
praying for them and that the church
was standing with them, and then we
would offer them a prayer card printed Questions for Reflection
in Spanish. Although many of the
minors were teenagers, I also Where are there migrants in your
observed toddlers and young children community?
appearing before a judge. My
experience with AMMPARO Can you identify how they are
deepened my understanding of struggling?
bearing witness and accompaniment.
How might you accompany them
on their journey?Urban Servant Corps
Service! Simplicity! Spirituality! Intentional Community!
At USC, we believe that service is
transformational -- it creates the
opportunity for shared humanity
and to faithfully respond to one
another's needs.
Our full-time volunteers live in an
intentional community house in
downtown Denver with others who
are committed to social justice,
racial justice, and accompanying
vulnerable populations.
Food, housing, health insurance, a
monthly stipend and an annual
"growth and development"
allotment are provided.
Additionally, Spiritual Direction,
alumni mentorship, and
professional development
opportunities are offered as part of
“This year has been completely this experience.
transformational…” ~Tatum
USC is a Reconciling in Christ
“Our community has: worshipped, ministry!
cried, laughed around the dinner
table, held each other accountable, Questions for Reflection
challenged our norms, and so much
more!” ~Sydney 1) Are you a young adult
dedicated to social justice
“Overall, my year of service so far and a simpler way of life?
has greatly tested my flexibility and 2) Are you someone who hopes
has challenged the way I perceive and to explore or deepen your
show up in the world through a faith?
constant state of learning and 3) Are you seeking experience
unlearning, and I wouldn’t have it any in the non-profit/ministry
other way!” ~ Ciara field?
www.urbanservantcorps.orgVeterans Servant Corps Project of RMS
The Rocky Mountain Synod has a The first no-cost retreat will be for ten
new ministry, the Veteran Servant veterans and their families on
Corps Project. This ministry is to September 10 – 12, 2021 at Sky
support military members and their Ranch Lutheran Camp in Colorado. A
families. future retreat is planned for Rainbow
Trail Lutheran Camp in Colorado.
Veteran Servant Corps Project in the
Rocky Mountain Synod is part of the To donate, please go to the RMS web
ELCA’s Memorial to provide a site, click the Ministries tab at the top,
welcoming and supportive go to Servant Corps and select
environment for returning military Veterans Servant Corps Project, and
personnel to effectively provide scroll to the bottom of the page for the
healing ministries to military veterans “Donate” button.
and their families.
For further information contact Vicky
This mission will: Daub at lvdaub2@gmail.com.
-Provide training for ELCA clergy and
pastoral support staff to understand Reflection Question:
veteran’s issues.
• How can you and/or your
-Provide no-cost retreats at ELCA congregation change the
camps for veterans and their families. lives of veterans and their
families?
-Provide ideas and materials for
veteran awareness and celebrations
in the ELCA community.Excellence in Leadership (EiL)
Expanding Perspectives
At one of the churches I serve, First
Lutheran in Longmont, we decided to
study race. In a six-week class, we
learned about the fallacy of genetics
in race, the historical experience of
black and brown people in this
country, the blindness of privilege,
“You don’t need a title to be a leader.”
Anonymous
and the justifications around guilt.
People of faith, rooted in love, were
********************** broken open by the reality of injustice
By Rev. Julie Brooks and were wondering what to do next.
Trainer, Excellence in Leadership Harm to one is harm to all and
Pastor, Saron in Strasburg & connecting stirs us to action. God is
First in Longmont
always in solidarity with suffering!
This past year, while working on my
Showing up and being fully present
own transformation for the sake of
takes some work, but it is a joyful and
God’s work in the world, I attended a
worthwhile endeavor. Our flawed and
reconciliation event at Zion Baptist
redeemed selves can be leveraged for
Church in Five Points, Denver. It was
the loving purpose of God’s emerging
the four-month anniversary of George
future. This might include knowledge
Floyd’s death. Afterward, standing in
about theories, but it’s also making
this vast and historic place, Reverend
ourselves available as people who are
Davis, lead pastor at Zion Baptist,
“brave, awkward, and kind.” (Brené
talked about the urgency and
Brown) As Jesus-people, may we
immediacy of God’s work in this
ever deepen with our neighbors far
mostly-black community. As he spoke,
and near, knowing we’ll emerge with
I could sense a profound space
something beautiful and life-giving.
expanding inside of me.
Excellence in Leadership encourages Questions for Reflection
us to embrace vulnerability and
Ø What gets in your way of loving your
connect beyond our usual social
neighbor?
location. We look at culture as it
Ø How might you and your neighbor
sways our point of view—which for me
share your meaningful stories?
began with a suburban, middle class,
Ø Where do you feel the nudge to be
white upbringing—and how it bestows
part of God’s emerging future? What
stereotypes that neglect the actual
is your first step?
experience, while causing real harm.Rocky Mountain Synod Development
An All-Expense
Paid Trip
By: Tina Kvitek, RMS Development Officer
Have you ever been to an ‘all-inclusive’
resort or on a cruise ship – where you Photo: Eldar Nazarov
pay one upfront fee, then you get to eat
and drink yourself silly? I have not… Questions for Reflection:
but I often dream of great vacations
and what it would be to experience a
• What plans have you made to
trip like that.
care for your loved ones – and
During our lifetime, we work hard to your favorite church/charity –
build that dream of an ‘all-inclusive’ life
at the end of your life?
by accumulate major assets, such as a
home and car; by saving for specific
events like college or retirement • How soon should those plans
through investments and other types of
accounts; and by protecting our be reviewed, and who should
families and our lifestyles with tools like know about the details?
life insurance, etc.
But what is your plan for when the
dream comes true? When the
promises God made to you at baptism
become the gift you receive
forever? When you no longer need to I can help!
use those assets and you are free to Let us schedule some time to talk.
pass them on to loved ones and a Here is my new contact information:
ministry you care deeply about to
continue their good work beyond your
lifetime? Tina Kvitek
RMS Development Officer
Email: tkvitek@rmselca.org
Cell: (720) 238-3763Educate, Equip, Enact (3E)
Where Are You Going?
SOTH decided to join 3E’s fall 2020
online Beginning a Culture of
Generosity program, created for
congregations who have not yet
participated in SAS.
At SOTH, Beginning a Culture of
Generosity hit the sweet spot. The
number of people pledging more than
doubled over the prior year and
projected income grew by 27%.
“If you don’t move forward and Charlene said people were truly
change, you’re not going anywhere.” excited as they decided to fund new
local, national, and international
That’s what Charlene Coulson, a ministry initiatives in their Web of
decades-long member of Shepherd of Grace fall stewardship campaign.
the Hills Lutheran Church (SOTH) in
Cañon City, Colorado, who currently While 3E hopes to offer effective
serves as the Congregation Council programs, it’s bold, trusting, daring
President, recently shared as she leadership and vision like Charlene’s
reflected on SOTH’s journey in and that of others at SOTH that
stewardship ministry. helped the congregation move forward
in sharing God’s love in the world.
Three years ago, SOTH participated
in 3E’s Stewardship for All Seasons Responding to what God is prodding
(SAS) program. SAS guides them to become in this new day,
congregations and its leaders in SOTH trusts where it’s going.
learning and carrying out fruitful
stewardship programs that enliven a
Questions for Reflection
culture of generosity. But, SAS wasn’t
the right fit for SOTH at the time and • How do you feel about the
the congregation left SAS. opening quote?
• What excites you about the
When Charlene began serving as ministry of your congregation?
council president, honoring SOTH’s • What can you learn from what
legacy and seeing ministry opportunity doesn’t go right?
in the present, she said, “We’ve got to • Who is God prodding you to
be doing better than this.” become?You can also read
