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Sunday Highlights
Sunday Highlights
- The newly elected officers, led by President Jan Wendorf, were installed at the final session of the 2007 LWML convention.
- The Saturday afternoon offering, which will go toward seminary student aid, totaled $47,831.54. Since checks were sent in before the convention, offering totals will grow. Those numbers will be in an upcoming e-News.
- Gifts from the Heart donation totals:
- Hand Towel Sets ..........................................1,887
- Health Kits with Towel ....................................457
- Health Kits without Towel ............................2,548
- Children's Clothing .................................338 items
- Children's Underwear and Socks Sets...........2,339
- Sheet Sets ...................................................1,340
- Quilts .............................................................970
- Shampoo .......................................................902
- Toothbrushes ..............................................3,065
- Miscellaneous .............................................4,530
- A record number of first-timers, over 1,500, worshipped, voted, sang and praised at the 32nd Biennial LWML Convention.
- Without a single electronic device in the room, 91 teens were rockin' all afternoon at the Teen Hang Out on Saturday. The 11- to 17-year-old girls made pet rocks, designed cards for the Children's Hospital of Sioux Falls , played Bible Jeopardy and discovered their "fruit" personality. They went home with a pencil bag, pencils, fun prizes and memories of a rockin' time at convention.
- Rev. Dr. Dean Nadasdy designed the Service of Sending with Rev. Dr. Vernon Schindler, who served as the Proclaimer. His sermon was titled "The House on the Rock." LWML Pastoral Counselors Rev. Larry A. Miller and Rev. Carl Gnewuch served as lectors.
- The convention closed with a photo highlights presentation that ended in a spectacular laser light show. Total convention attendance numbered 5,023.
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