ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, AND UTAH
Short-Term Mission Goal Accomplished!

The Short-Term Mission Team spent one week at the International Friendship House in Tempe, AZ. 

This organization was the recipient of one of our Mission Grants in the amount of $9,950.00. 

For this trip our project was to share some of our skills and extend our friendship, while spreading the gospel of Christ. 

We started by making Easter baskets from white paper bags adding a sheet of scrapbooking paper to the outside.

he team also shared baking and cooking skills around the theme of Easter. 

The goal here was the sharing of American custom.
Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Volunteer Mission Trip

Meeting the challenge! This was the first trip for the Pacific Southwest District as acceptance to the challenge given by LWML National President Janice Wendorf, for each LWML District to plan and implement two (2) Volunteer Mission Trips by the summer of 2010.

Plans included presentation of special interest sessions during the morning Summer School program of the Navajo Lutheran Mission School.  Team members led sessions for each grade level for the four day program.  Classes included first aid, button sewing, quilting, crochet, art, music, poetry, story telling, puppetry, exercise, and math games.

Members of Calvary Lutheran Church, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, and Zion Lutheran Church provided health items, healthy snacks, and sewing kits to give to each child.  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans gave the team a Care in Regions Grant of $1300 for the week long trip. 
 
What a blessing for the entire mission team to be able to share the love of Jesus with our Navajo friends in Christ.  It was a wonderful challenge and an immense pleasure to step out of our comfort zones and follow Jesus’ great commission. 

For more information please contact or to request a presentation of the mission trip:  JoAnn Bradley, jbmp@verizon.net
Note: News and Information about contributing your stories about Mission related projects see Press Release from National LWML below to get information. 
Authors of New LWML Book on Mission Grants Seek Stories


Are you a missionary who has seen or experienced the benefits of an LWML grant in Africa, Europe, or Asia? Have you ever visited a country on these continents and personally observed the results of one or more national LWML grants? Do you know of a former missionary who has a story to tell?

If your answer is yes, then your help is needed. Authors Janice Brauer, Lauren Beale, and Marlys Taege are collaborating on a new LWML book that will share how the Lord has blessed our mission grants on those continents. These authors know what was done with the mission grant money, but they need stories — stories of people who benefited and changes that took place in lives or communities because of those mission grants. If you have a story or special memory, please e-mail them as follows:

  • European grants – Janice Brauer - brauer83@comcast.net
  • African grants – Lauren Beale - mlbeale@milwpc.com
  • Asian grants (including India, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines and New Guinea) – Marlys Taege - marlyst@sbcglobal.net

Your help will be deeply appreciated and appropriately acknowledged. If you know of someone who has a story to tell but who does not have e-mail, please ask them to call 414-357-6672 for a mailing address where they can send the story.

NEW MISSION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN:
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