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TREASURED NEWS NOVEMBER 2012
Issue #3
MITE UPDATE The October mite offering from districts and other sources was $63,694.56 bringing the total for this biennium to $1,270,415.52. We are thankful for these donations; however, we are behind budget by $174,376.21. Now for the next five months, an average of $110,916.89 is needed to meet our mission goal of $1.825 million that was adopted at the Peoria Convention. Why do we have to panic each biennium and wonder if we’ll meet our goal? Why wait until the last months of the biennium to “give it all we have” in the hope that we raise the funds to pay our grants? Can we change this pattern? Picture the children in Detroit who need our help, the blind waiting to read the Word of God in Braille, the youth in Central/South America, and the children in the Dominican Republic. There are eleven grants that have been partially paid and one that has received no funds at all. So what can you do? Wrap all you do for the Lord’s work in prayer. Sponsor an event that will spark a connection between those who have a mission heart to those who need our assistance, both physically and spiritually. January is a good month to hold such events as the winter is long and people might enjoy coming together for the good of others. God has promised to bless the work of our hands; nothing we do in His name is ever in vain. BULLETIN BYTES --- USE FOR YOUR CHURCH’S BULLETIN OR DECEMBER NEWSLETTER A $100,000 LWML grant will provide funding to expand the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, which is home to 1,000 students from 145 federally-funded tribes from over 40 states. LIGHT (Lutheran Indians Gathering and Helping Together) Ministry evangelizes, recruits, and trains Native American students who will one day return to their communities as witnesses to the power of the Gospel. This grant provides resources for additional staff, a new multi-purpose facility, travel expenses for teams to serve in Native communities, and the development of a curriculum to train “Reaching Back Teams.” This curriculum will teach Lutheran theology in the context of Native culture, in order to train Native American teams to share the Gospel effectively, reaching back to their communities.
November 2012
Page 2
MITE REPORT BY DISTRICT - OCTOBER 2012 DISTRICT
CURRENT
ATLANTIC
TOTAL
DISTRICT
CURRENT
TOTAL
10,927.59
NEBRASKA NORTH
1,178.39
20,226.86
NEBRASKA SOUTH
1,704.28
29,317.00
NEW ENGLAND
615.17
9,606.63
CAL-NEV-HAWAII
2,672.56
33,202.29
CAROLINAS
1,460.40
8,728.83
CENTRAL ILLINOIS
1,087.18
29,592.82
NEW JERSEY
210.78
3,335.90
CHESAPEAKE
16,675.67
NORTH DAKOTA
663.78
20,153.20
EASTERN
11,118.44
NORTH WISCONSIN
3,132.00
24,160.00
9,105.27
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
1,203.41
32,155.55
OHIO
1,431.95
31,623.22
OKLAHOMA
4,661.66
32,120.84
ENGLISH
629.82
FLORIDA-GEORGIA GULF STATES
24,689.21 476.78
8,695.17
INDIANA
24,360.83
OREGON
IOWA EAST
20,032.24
PACIFIC SW
37,791.07
KANSAS LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI
IOWA WEST
5,278.72
13,110.24 2,471.86
43,489.22
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
940.48
29,584.29
23,597.79
SELC
497.32
2,443.86
11,715.74
SOUTH DAKOTA
730.78
16,308.55
MICHIGAN
2,106.82
54,455.83
SOUTH WISCONSIN
MID-SOUTH
1,033.47
22,085.53
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
2,525.55
16,646.56
MINNESOTA NORTH
1,879.73
27,345.24
TEXAS
3,933.55
53,466.65
MINNESOTA SOUTH
1,816.88
42,179.91
UTAH-IDAHO
303.95
8,367.54
MISSOURI
3,129.57
61,134.91
WASH-ALASKA
4,190.44
25,171.57
459.76
11,310.19
WYOMING
660.53
8,432.26
53,087.57
944,205.47
MONTANA
TOTAL
35,740.96
MITES FROM OTHER SOURCES Mite Donations
9,602.83
Conv. Offering #1 Children’s Miss Adv Mite Walk Golf Tournament
388.16
85,606.38
Annual Appeal
51,150.79
GoodSearch
10,290.14
Thrivent Simply Giving
75.00
1,505.00
60,385.67
Thrivent Choice Dollars
216.00
43,153.00
7,332.06
OTHER MITE TOTAL
10,606.99
326,210.05
GRAND TOTAL
63,694.56 1,270,415.52
All totals are unconfirmed pending verification from the accounting office.
325.00
64,279.10 2,507.91
Page 3
November 2012
Another Way to Donate to LWML - GoodSearch The LWML is up and running on GoodSearch! This is a search engine like Google that you can use to generate some mite money for LWML. It is estimated that each search generates one penny for the designated organization. Thus if 1,000 women would search twice a day and designate LWML as the organization to support, we could potentially receive $7,300/year. Make GoodSearch your search engine and support LWML missions. You will need to select the organization you support the first time you use it. Once you select LWML and verify, that name will appear in the corner each time you do a search. Searches have raised over $9,000 for LWML missions since the program began in January 2006 . The more it’s used, the greater the benefit to our grant recipients. The annual deposit will be made in November. Last year we received $2,507.91, so look in the next newsletter to see if we raised the bar! Then let’s try to increase it even more in the coming year. Many people around the world are counting on our support. Visit www.goodsearch.com and type LWML under “I’m supporting” to participate in the program. Happy searching and remember that each of these pennies has the potential to carry the message of Jesus Christ to those who are lost and searching! Excerpts taken from the Carolinas District Newsletter Thank you!
BURNED YOUR TURKEY TO A CRISP? DON’T DESPAIR Craig Boldman and Pete Matthews, authors of Every Excuse in the Book (Mjf Books), offer reasons to be thankful for a blackened bird: You’ll get a good upper-body workout from carving the bird. No one will get food poisoning from undercooked poultry. You can move straight to dessert. You won’t have to deal with weeks of leftovers. Pets won’t pester you for scraps. It was time to test your smoke alarm anyway.
Please pass the Treasured News on to your zone treasurers and ask them to send on to each society treasurer. By sharing this news, each group will be informed and we’ll keep the communication line going strong.
Please share your ideas for news, and I’ll publish in future newsletters. Contact me at: [email protected] (208) 733-6599
November 2012
Page 4
NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:18 The Bible contains 138 passages of thanksgiving and some of them are powerful. The one quoted above is one of these along with this one: And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him (Colossians 3:17). However, few hymns are totally devoted to thanking God. The German Christians sing this hymn like American believers sing the “Doxology.” A Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart, from Eilenberg, Saxony, wrote this hymn in 1636. He began his ministry just as the Thirty Years’ War was raging in Germany. Refugees flooded into Eilenberg during these desperate times. Inside the city there was nothing but plague, famine, and fear while the Swedish army encompassed the city gates. Many homes were destroyed and people died in numbers.
The pastors used all their strength to preach the Gospel, care for the sick, and bury the dead. Soon the pastors themselves became ill and died, all except for Martin Rinkart. Some days he conducted fifty funerals. Because of Martin’s demonstration of courage and faith as he negotiated with the enemy, the hostilities concluded and the period of suffering ended. He knew there would be no healing without thanksgiving; he then wrote this hymn for the survivors of Eilenberg. Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, In whom this world rejoices; Who from our mother’s arms, Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. —Taken from Then Sings My Soul By Robert J. Morgan (Thomas Nelson Publishers 2003)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES GIVE THANKS WITH A GRATEFUL HEART As preacher and author W.T. Purkiser noted, “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
Issue #3
MITE UPDATE The October mite offering from districts and other sources was $63,694.56 bringing the total for this biennium to $1,270,415.52. We are thankful for these donations; however, we are behind budget by $174,376.21. Now for the next five months, an average of $110,916.89 is needed to meet our mission goal of $1.825 million that was adopted at the Peoria Convention. Why do we have to panic each biennium and wonder if we’ll meet our goal? Why wait until the last months of the biennium to “give it all we have” in the hope that we raise the funds to pay our grants? Can we change this pattern? Picture the children in Detroit who need our help, the blind waiting to read the Word of God in Braille, the youth in Central/South America, and the children in the Dominican Republic. There are eleven grants that have been partially paid and one that has received no funds at all. So what can you do? Wrap all you do for the Lord’s work in prayer. Sponsor an event that will spark a connection between those who have a mission heart to those who need our assistance, both physically and spiritually. January is a good month to hold such events as the winter is long and people might enjoy coming together for the good of others. God has promised to bless the work of our hands; nothing we do in His name is ever in vain. BULLETIN BYTES --- USE FOR YOUR CHURCH’S BULLETIN OR DECEMBER NEWSLETTER A $100,000 LWML grant will provide funding to expand the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, which is home to 1,000 students from 145 federally-funded tribes from over 40 states. LIGHT (Lutheran Indians Gathering and Helping Together) Ministry evangelizes, recruits, and trains Native American students who will one day return to their communities as witnesses to the power of the Gospel. This grant provides resources for additional staff, a new multi-purpose facility, travel expenses for teams to serve in Native communities, and the development of a curriculum to train “Reaching Back Teams.” This curriculum will teach Lutheran theology in the context of Native culture, in order to train Native American teams to share the Gospel effectively, reaching back to their communities.
November 2012
Page 2
MITE REPORT BY DISTRICT - OCTOBER 2012 DISTRICT
CURRENT
ATLANTIC
TOTAL
DISTRICT
CURRENT
TOTAL
10,927.59
NEBRASKA NORTH
1,178.39
20,226.86
NEBRASKA SOUTH
1,704.28
29,317.00
NEW ENGLAND
615.17
9,606.63
CAL-NEV-HAWAII
2,672.56
33,202.29
CAROLINAS
1,460.40
8,728.83
CENTRAL ILLINOIS
1,087.18
29,592.82
NEW JERSEY
210.78
3,335.90
CHESAPEAKE
16,675.67
NORTH DAKOTA
663.78
20,153.20
EASTERN
11,118.44
NORTH WISCONSIN
3,132.00
24,160.00
9,105.27
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
1,203.41
32,155.55
OHIO
1,431.95
31,623.22
OKLAHOMA
4,661.66
32,120.84
ENGLISH
629.82
FLORIDA-GEORGIA GULF STATES
24,689.21 476.78
8,695.17
INDIANA
24,360.83
OREGON
IOWA EAST
20,032.24
PACIFIC SW
37,791.07
KANSAS LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI
IOWA WEST
5,278.72
13,110.24 2,471.86
43,489.22
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
940.48
29,584.29
23,597.79
SELC
497.32
2,443.86
11,715.74
SOUTH DAKOTA
730.78
16,308.55
MICHIGAN
2,106.82
54,455.83
SOUTH WISCONSIN
MID-SOUTH
1,033.47
22,085.53
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
2,525.55
16,646.56
MINNESOTA NORTH
1,879.73
27,345.24
TEXAS
3,933.55
53,466.65
MINNESOTA SOUTH
1,816.88
42,179.91
UTAH-IDAHO
303.95
8,367.54
MISSOURI
3,129.57
61,134.91
WASH-ALASKA
4,190.44
25,171.57
459.76
11,310.19
WYOMING
660.53
8,432.26
53,087.57
944,205.47
MONTANA
TOTAL
35,740.96
MITES FROM OTHER SOURCES Mite Donations
9,602.83
Conv. Offering #1 Children’s Miss Adv Mite Walk Golf Tournament
388.16
85,606.38
Annual Appeal
51,150.79
GoodSearch
10,290.14
Thrivent Simply Giving
75.00
1,505.00
60,385.67
Thrivent Choice Dollars
216.00
43,153.00
7,332.06
OTHER MITE TOTAL
10,606.99
326,210.05
GRAND TOTAL
63,694.56 1,270,415.52
All totals are unconfirmed pending verification from the accounting office.
325.00
64,279.10 2,507.91
Page 3
November 2012
Another Way to Donate to LWML - GoodSearch The LWML is up and running on GoodSearch! This is a search engine like Google that you can use to generate some mite money for LWML. It is estimated that each search generates one penny for the designated organization. Thus if 1,000 women would search twice a day and designate LWML as the organization to support, we could potentially receive $7,300/year. Make GoodSearch your search engine and support LWML missions. You will need to select the organization you support the first time you use it. Once you select LWML and verify, that name will appear in the corner each time you do a search. Searches have raised over $9,000 for LWML missions since the program began in January 2006 . The more it’s used, the greater the benefit to our grant recipients. The annual deposit will be made in November. Last year we received $2,507.91, so look in the next newsletter to see if we raised the bar! Then let’s try to increase it even more in the coming year. Many people around the world are counting on our support. Visit www.goodsearch.com and type LWML under “I’m supporting” to participate in the program. Happy searching and remember that each of these pennies has the potential to carry the message of Jesus Christ to those who are lost and searching! Excerpts taken from the Carolinas District Newsletter Thank you!
BURNED YOUR TURKEY TO A CRISP? DON’T DESPAIR Craig Boldman and Pete Matthews, authors of Every Excuse in the Book (Mjf Books), offer reasons to be thankful for a blackened bird: You’ll get a good upper-body workout from carving the bird. No one will get food poisoning from undercooked poultry. You can move straight to dessert. You won’t have to deal with weeks of leftovers. Pets won’t pester you for scraps. It was time to test your smoke alarm anyway.
Please pass the Treasured News on to your zone treasurers and ask them to send on to each society treasurer. By sharing this news, each group will be informed and we’ll keep the communication line going strong.
Please share your ideas for news, and I’ll publish in future newsletters. Contact me at: [email protected] (208) 733-6599
November 2012
Page 4
NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:18 The Bible contains 138 passages of thanksgiving and some of them are powerful. The one quoted above is one of these along with this one: And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him (Colossians 3:17). However, few hymns are totally devoted to thanking God. The German Christians sing this hymn like American believers sing the “Doxology.” A Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart, from Eilenberg, Saxony, wrote this hymn in 1636. He began his ministry just as the Thirty Years’ War was raging in Germany. Refugees flooded into Eilenberg during these desperate times. Inside the city there was nothing but plague, famine, and fear while the Swedish army encompassed the city gates. Many homes were destroyed and people died in numbers.
The pastors used all their strength to preach the Gospel, care for the sick, and bury the dead. Soon the pastors themselves became ill and died, all except for Martin Rinkart. Some days he conducted fifty funerals. Because of Martin’s demonstration of courage and faith as he negotiated with the enemy, the hostilities concluded and the period of suffering ended. He knew there would be no healing without thanksgiving; he then wrote this hymn for the survivors of Eilenberg. Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, In whom this world rejoices; Who from our mother’s arms, Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. —Taken from Then Sings My Soul By Robert J. Morgan (Thomas Nelson Publishers 2003)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES GIVE THANKS WITH A GRATEFUL HEART As preacher and author W.T. Purkiser noted, “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
