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$88,000
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LWML Mission Grants
2009–2011 Biennium $1.825 Million Goal
A tent church in Tanzania
Ten Chapels, Transportation, and Pastoral Training in Tanzania $88,000 Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world with an average income is $210 per year. The church in Tanzania is growing and in need of places to worship, motorcycles and bicycles for the local pastors and evangelists, and training for those seeking to bring the good news of all sins forgiven in Jesus. An $88,000 grant supplies roofs for church buildings, motorcycles and bicycles for pastors and evangelists, and training for those seeking to serve the Lord’s people as pastors.
PAID
1. Defray Cost of Shipping Quilts by Lutheran World Relief
$80,000
2. Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Food Bank Relocation
$50,000
$50,000
3. The Carpenter’s Hands — Youth Refurbish Homes – Florida
$26,000
$26,000
4. PTanzanian salm 69:14 Project — Emergency Disaster Aid in Texas, pastor ministers to the congregation Pastor uses a bicycle to travel from Oklahoma, and Louisiana $26,000 village$50,000 to village 5. Digitalized Classes for Specific Ministry Pastor Program – Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne
$36,000
$36,000
6. Ten Chapels, Transportation and Pastoral Training in Tanzania
$88,000
$25,000
2009 - 2011
7. Body and Soul Care for Children in India To purchase 10 8. LCMS Prison Ministry Provides Devotional Materials $50,000 P s a l m 6 9 : 1 4 P r o jecWord t– chapel roofs, “Father God, Your 9. Lutheran Braille Workers Provide English War in the$50,000 Braille Bibles – Africa $100,000 motorcycles Em ergencyforDis 1a0. Ksyrgyzstan terLocals AiTrained d ifornEvangelism Texasbrings ,neighboring Ofreedom. kla$100,000 h omofa$50,000 , countries pastors, and Tanzania has$90,000 brought an $20,000 11. The Hope Center for Refugees and Immigrants – Ohio a n d L o u isianWea influx of war refugees. bicycles for 12. Human Care and Pastoral Ministries Developed are excited $87,500 about the $43,750 Latvia121:1-2 and Lithuania (NIV) I lift my eyes to evangelists, and to 13. MinPsalm $ 5 0,00toChinese 0 the hills—where my help Disabled come ission Support todoes Dominican Children expanded opportunity $50,000 from? My help comes from the LORD, prepare five men 14. NativetheLeadership take the Good News of Scholarships for Students Enrolled Maker of heaven and earth. in Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) freedom in $100,000 Christ to the $30,000 for pastoral ministry 15. HIsaiah 52:7 (NIV) How beautiful on the uman Care are Outreach Sukuma tribe $90,000 of 8 million.$45,000 mountains the feetinofKazakhstan those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, in Tanzania. May You bless the work, as 16. International Student Ministry Provides Bibles and who bring good tidings, who proclaim
we salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God 17. Earthquake Reliefreigns!” Aid and Church Plants in Peru Christ-Centered Resources
In Texas, an elderly Hurricane
PsalmIke69:14 survivor Project gets a hug — Emergency Disaster Aid in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana $50,000
$30,000 $15,000 give all honor and praise to You.$100,000 Amen.”
18. Light of Christ Chinese Lutheran Mission – St. Louis
$75,000
19. Humanitarian Aid Opens Mission Field in North Korea
$82,482
cial aid and the comfort of the Gospel. Lutheran congregations in the area can provide financial helpthis to couple’s cover shelter, In Southeast Texas, home was seriously damaged by needs hurricane medicine, and other critical not winds storm surge covered by otherand resources. A grant of $50,000 helps LSSS to prowww.lwml.org/missions/ vide one-time hardship grants, averaging $300, to those in the mire of disaster.
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“Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink” are the words from Psalm Light of Christ Chinese 69 that inspire the work of Lutheran Lutheran Mission – St. Louis Social Services of the South. $75,000 Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, Over 50,000 Asians live in the St. Louis and other disasters leave families, area, many not knowing Jesus and His especially in the south, in the mire love for them. The Light of Christ Mission of poverty, sickness, and affliction. serves over 140 Asians on a typical Sunday LSSS has been there to give finanand dozens more through parenting and
To provide emergency aid to impoverished and needy people affected by disasters, with aid taking the LUTHERAN WOMAN’S QUARTERLY form of one-time hardship grants,
We pray $50,000 together:
$75,000
A hurricane survivor thanks one of the volunteers who worked to repair his home in Southeast Texas
citizenship classes, fairs, to and other Bringinghealth the Gospel Sixty-fiv Asians living in the St. Louis area bridges to the Chinese Mini Wecommunity. pray together: Sixty-five individuals were baptized in China an past years. Fifteen of those baptized have returned to China and areGod, now witnesses “Faithful You are for our Lord in a country always nearthat to severely us. Personal restricts missionary work. recovery from A grant of $75,000 enables Lightseveral of Christ Chinese Mission to continue natural disasters toin the proclaim Jesus.
Psalm 121:1-2 – page(NIV) 12 – I lift my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
To enable Light of South Central U.S. seems Christ Mission to slow, and available continue sharing resources are dwindling. FALL 2010
Many people will receive