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• June 7, 2011 - LWML to Live Stream Convention in Peoria (PDF, 111 KB)
• May 24, 2011 - LWML Grants Paid to Date (PDF, 156 KB)
• May 20, 2011 LWML Hosts Breakfast Reception for Center for Hispanic Studies Graduates (PDF, 168 KB)

   

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June 7, 2011

LWML to Live Stream Convention in Peoria

Final preparations are under way for the 34th Biennial Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Convention held in Peoria, Illinois, June 23-26, 2011. Thousands of Lutheran Women in Mission will be attending and participating in the many activities and events at the convention.

New at this convention will be the first live streaming of the convention sessions. For those not able to attend the convention in person, the streaming will allow an opportunity to catch up on all the convention sessions via the World Wide Web using home or office computers.

Computer viewing will require adequate Internet speed from your Internet provider (Broadband or DSL connection of at least .765 Mb/s is recommended). If you are unable to view the convention online, or if the video has a number of pauses in it, it is likely that there is not enough speed to support the live stream. If viewing the convention live is not an option, daily updates will be posted at www.lwml.org and on LWML Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheLWML. Archived videos will be included with selected portions of each day.

This summer the LWML will Play in Peoria. It is not too late to be a part of the many events at the convention. Servant Events, Gifts from the Heart, Mission in Motion, special worship services, speakers, entertainment, friends, fellowship and more are all waiting. For more information on the convention, go to www.lwml.org/conventions. Late registrations are still being accepted for the convention.

Please remember LWML in your estate plan.

Our legal name is: “Lutheran Women's Missionary League."

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) is the official women’s auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Since 1942, the LWML has focused on affirming each woman’s relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions.

Click here for a printable version of this News Release. (PDF, 111 KB)

May 24, 2010

LWML Grants Paid to Date

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) presented a check totaling $245,482 to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) World Mission for final payment on three mission grants for the 2009-2011 biennium. To date, all mission grant recipients for the 2009-2011 biennium that have requested money have been paid. The grants paid in full include:

Ten Chapels, Transportation, and Pastoral Training in Tanzania – $63,000

This grant will be used to purchase materials for ten chapel roofs, motorcycles for pastors, and bicycles for evangelists; and to prepare five men for pastoral ministry in Tanzania.

Earthquake Relief Aid and Church Plants in Peru – $100,000

This grant will enable LCMS World Mission to reach out with God’s love through humanitarian aid and church planting in the forgotten, earthquake-ridden part of Peru.

Humanitarian Aid Opens Mission Field in North Korea – $82,482

The grant will be used to begin new mission work in North Korea, so that LCMS missionaries can share the love of Christ, both physically and spiritually, with thousands of North Koreans.

LWML President Janice Wendorf expressed gratitude to Lutheran Women in Mission who have funded the grants through their mite donations. “Even in these challenging economic times, LWML women have joined together and by the grace of God have been able to fund these three mission grants. God will surely use these gifts to further His kingdom throughout the world.”

Please remember LWML in your estate plan.

Our legal name is: “Lutheran Women's Missionary League."

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) is the official women’s auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Since 1942, the LWML has focused on affirming each woman’s relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions.

Click here for a printable version of this News Release. (PDF, 156 KB)

May 20, 2011

LWML Hosts Breakfast Reception for Center for Hispanic Studies Graduates

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) hosted a first-ever reception for the graduates of the Center for Hispanic Studies (CHS) at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. The breakfast reception was held on May 5, 2011, following the graduates’ call service the previous evening. The LWML not only desired to celebrate the graduates’ achievements with them, but also to share with them the heart and identity of LWML.

Honored guests included the graduates and their spouses, as well as friends and professors who played an important role in the students’ seminary experiences. Dr. Leopoldo Sanchez, Director of CHS, opened the event with congratulatory words and prayer. Seminary President Dr. Dale Meyer offered his congratulations to the students, as well as a message of admiration and praise for the women of the LWML. Dr. Meyer applauded LWML as a quiet but powerful force in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, sharing that as the demographics in the United States rapidly change, the LWML “gets it and responds.” CHS Professor Marcos Kempff offered closing remarks and the final prayer at the end of the reception.

“The LWML is here to support you in your ministry,” LWML President Janice Wendorf assured the graduates. President Wendorf expressed the pride LWML has for the graduates who have been active in lay ministries and now take on their new roles as pastors and deaconesses in the congregations that have called them. Highlighting mite giving, the Heart-to-Heart Sisters program, and the services that Lutheran Women in Mission offers to those in need throughout the world, President Wendorf assured the graduates that the LWML has many helpful resources available.

LWML Vice President of Gospel Outreach Marilyn McClure, who has been actively involved in Hispanic ministry during the past 41 years, served as translator for President Wendorf. McClure also took time to showcase the variety of Spanish materials available through the LWML.

“The LWML hopes to make this reception an annual event,” shared President Wendorf. Two graduates with LWML connections are Marta Luna, a 2009 Heart to Heart Sister, and Perla Rodriguez, a Heart to Heart District Leader trainee for the LWML Peoria Convention in June 2011. The graduates expressed delight as each received a bag filled with LWML resources and Spanish materials.

Please remember LWML in your estate plan.

Our legal name is:“Lutheran Women's Missionary League."

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) is the official women’s auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Since 1942 the LWML has focused on affirming each woman’s relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions.

Click here for a printable version of this News Release. (PDF, 168 KB)