2017-2019 LWML Mission Grant
Lutheran Children’s Books for Families Worldwide, Lutheran Heritage Foundation
$100,000

As a little girl, one of the first Christian books I received was a set of comic books covering the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. It was an easy read, with illustrations, and I delighted in reading the Bible stories as well as many of Jesus’ parables. A 2017-2019 LWML Mission Grant, Lutheran Children’s Books for Families Worldwide, Lutheran Heritage Foundation, provided the same thing: Bible story books for children. These children live in many countries around the world; the books were written in their own language and introduced them to Jesus.

Your mite offerings made publishing books possible in these languages:

•  Bahasa (Indonesia)
•  Farsi, Western (Iran/Germany)
•  Jingpho, Kachin (Burma)       
•  Russian (Russia)
•  Spanish (Americas)
•  Chinese (China)
•  Swahili (Kenya/Tanzania)
•  Kusaal, Komba, Bimoba, Akan (Ghana)
•  Somali (Somalia)
•  Thai, Bahasa, Vietnamese, Hill Tribe Dialects (Southeast Asia)

On Giving Tuesday, December 3, your donation will be matched. Please donate at www.lwml.org/givingtuesday; your support is needed. Continue to pray for all mission grant recipients.

Marie Chow

Vice President of Organizational Resources
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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2019–2021 Mission Grant — Hope and Healing Hub of Downtown Lincoln — University Lutheran Chapel — $50,000

What really matters to you? Chances are, it’s your home, job, church, family, friends, and, most important, your relationship with our Savior. But what if someone doesn’t know Jesus?

With God working through the funds we collect in our Mite Boxes, people can learn about Jesus’ saving power. The University Lutheran Chapel in Lincoln, Nebraska, the recipient of our 2019–2021 LWML Mission Grant #14, Hope & Healing Hub of Downtown Lincoln ($50,000), serves the area through worship, Bible study, and service opportunities.

Many young adults struggle with loneliness, anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide. As Lutheran parents, we raised our children in the faith through God’s Word and Sacraments. Others, however, were not brought up in Christian homes and have never heard the hope of the Gospel. I became acutely aware of this situation through family members who have personal connections with them.

The University Chapel will use grant funds to renovate their building, making it more inviting as they offer Christian counseling services through GracePoint Institute for Relational Health. Your mites and prayers can make a difference in the lives of young adults as they are provided hope through Jesus Christ. Give generously this Giving Tuesday, December 3.

Karla Koehler

Treasurer
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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2015–2017 Mission Grant #11 — Opportunities in Uganda — Women of the Pearl and Seminary Completion — $100,000

It is rare you hear that something is your fault in the LWML world of love between sisters and brothers in Christ. LWML women greet each other with smiles and hugs, we build each other up with positive reinforcement and love. So who would dare tell LWML women that something was their fault?

If you attended the LWML Mobile Convention this past summer you would have heard mission speaker, Lynn Corker. Lynn, as a lay missionary, has been involved in developing women’s ministry in Uganda. Women of the Pearl provide education in literacy, nutrition, personal hygiene, business and agriculture to women so they may be equipped to serve God and help support pastors, congregations and communities through teaching of the scripture.

How does this have anything to do with anyone being at fault? As Lynn Corker told everyone, through your mite dollars YOU have changed the lives of women by allowing them to learn and love Jesus and it’s your fault! It’s your fault that an entire nation will be changed for generations to come — your mite offerings have helped to break ground on a seminary and build a library. The seminary will double the number of pastors who will preach God’s word in Uganda and it’s your fault! Lynn stated that we have a God who takes something so simple as coins in a box and changes the lives of so many and He does it all through you.

On Giving Tuesday, December 3, remember that your mite donation will change someone's life forever, and yes, it will be your fault!

Ginger Starrett

Recording Secretary
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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2019-2021 Mission Grant #12 — Women’s Witness and Mercy in Asia — Mission Central — $100,000

With each coin or bill I put in one of my Mite Boxes scattered around the house I pray for a particular mission grant. Today, the Holy Spirit brought to my mind the 2019-2021 LWML Mission Grant #12, Women’s Witness and Mercy in Asia. Our missionaries throughout Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia serve God in a very secular environment. These women teach English as a second language, build relationships and share the reason for their hope and acts of mercy … Jesus, our Savior and Lord.

Your donations on Giving Tuesday, December 3, 2019 will help support Mission Grant #12, Women’s Witness and Mercy in Asia and will provide assurance that Mission Central can keep our missionaries in an area where they are able to share Jesus and His mercy with those who are hungry to hear the Gospel

Debbie Larson

President
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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LWML Mission Grant 2015–2017 Mission Grant: Disaster Response Trailers — LCMS Disaster Response, $80,000 

“Blessed to be a blessing” … a simple but powerful phrase that cannot adequately describe the joy expressed when a Disaster Response Trailer shows up in time of need. This Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) Mission Grant of $80,000 paid for one third of the costs per trailer for requesting congregations in each of 21 districts. The congregation/district and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Disaster Response paid the remaining two thirds. Since receiving the $80,000 grant money from the LWML, the LCMS was able to fund 26 Disaster Response Trailers.

It multiplied into nearly $270,000 which was used to purchase equipment for the trailers, enabling Disaster Response volunteers to be better prepared when offering relief and comfort to people who suffer after a disaster. LCMS Disaster Response continues to provide a ministry of presence before, during, and after a disaster, giving the volunteers more opportunities to speak the comforting truths of the Gospel to the affected individuals and families. LWML has been part of this amazing outreach. Indeed, God has blessed us to be a blessing! Thank you for being a blessing this Giving Tuesday, December 3.

Char Kroemer

Vice President of Communication
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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2017–2019 Mission Grant — Mercy House for Women and Children — $100,000

Being assigned my deaconess internship at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Flint, Michigan, was an eye-opening experience. My home in rural northwest Missouri was very different from this city of 200,000 where auto manufacturing and its related industries employed the majority of the population. Yet homelessness, unemployment, and poverty crept into the landscape of the city as the auto industry experienced a downturn during the 1970s.

The challenges of living in Flint were compounded four decades later with the Flint water crisis. Lead-tainted water had been allowed to flow through the drinking water pipes, causing additional hardships for the residents. The social problems that arose seemed insurmountable.

People at the Franklin Avenue Mission in Flint sought to shine God’s light into the community by meeting the needs of their poverty-stricken neighbors. They established Mercy House, a safe place for homeless, pregnant and/or abused women and their children. The facility seeks to break the cycle of poverty and decrease the potential for abuse by housing women and children in a safe, caring, Christian environment, where parenting and relationship building can be modeled. The long-term transitional housing facility received a $100,000 LWML Mission Grant at the 2017 Albuquerque convention to be used to renovate and furnish the residence.

Our Mite Box contributions have helped Franklin Avenue Mission and the Mercy House positively impact the lives of those receiving care through their programs. Thank you for giving generously this Giving Tuesday, December 3.

Deaconess Betty Knapp

Vice President of Special Focus Ministries
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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Our country celebrates Thanksgiving Day in November. We have much for which to be thankful! Our highest thanksgiving comes from the gift of Jesus, our Savior. God has given us everything in Christ; and, therefore, we thank and praise Him, serve and obey Him, and devote ourselves to His service.

Recent storms and disasters have challenged us and may make us wonder and question God. At those moments let us go the Psalms and other passages in God’s Holy Word for comfort and assurance.

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17–18).

Heavenly Father, grant that we follow Your Word and thank our dear Lord for His holy precious blood, which He so freely offered for us on the cross. In His name we pray. Amen.

Angelina Jauregui

Vice President of Gospel Outreach
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League

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