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No Little Places
By Linda Reiser

“Father, where shall I work today?” and my love flowed warm and free. He pointed out a tiny spot and said, “Tend that Place for me.” I answered Him quickly, “Oh no! Not that! Why, no one would ever see, No matter how well my work was done; Not that little place for me!” The word He spoke, then, wasn’t stern; He answered me tenderly; “Nazareth was a little place, and so was Galilee.”

Ray Stedman
[From www.bible.org. Used by permission.]

Women came from communities large and small. Women came from all regions of their districts. And come they did! Thousands of women attended the forty LWML district conventions during 2006.

Lutheran Women in Mission do not represent little things when it comes to their hearts of service to love and to help. In fact, BIG things happened when thousands of women brought gifts from the heart, participated in servant activities, heard mission speakers, voted on mission grants, elected new officers, worshipped, prayed, and lifted their hearts and voices in song as they celebrated together the mission of LWML.

Even if you were not able to attend your district convention, the little things you do make a difference in the BIG things we have done together as women of mission. When you are daily in the Word and in prayer, your little piece of LWML makes a HUGE
impact on the whole of Lutheran Women in Mission.

• Your daily dedication to the mission endeavors of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League continues to impact the lives of children, women, and men through the grants you pray for and support.
• Your daily dedication to being involved in LWML at the local level impacts your church, your community, and your life as a child of God.

Listen to the report of your convention delegate. Consider starting a young mother’s or Friends Into Serving Him (Teen LWML) group in your congregation. Ask your delegate to share what she learned, heard, experienced at the district convention and continue to impact your little place with His love!

There are no little places in LWML — each local group and each member is significant! Each little thing you do is important! Each little gift you give has made a difference.

Consider this your invitation to join thousands of others coming from many little places to make a BIG impact in witness and mission in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, June 2007!