Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML)
The
Lutheran Women's Missionary League(LWML) also known as the Lutheran
Women in Mission, has a membership of more than 200,000 and is the
official women's auxiliary of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
For more than 50 years, the LWML has been encouraging and equipping
women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries
and to financially support global mission projects.
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and
watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many
rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in
two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth,
this poor widow has put in more into the treasury than all the
others. They all gave out of their wealth, but she, out of her
poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on"
(Mark 12:41-43).
The LWML uses
Mite Boxes to collect
funds. Those contributions have supported
Christian outreach in 42 countries on five continents. They have
provided chapels and mission headquarters, hospitals and medicine,
Bibles and magazines, schools and equipment, jeeps and radio
transceivers, missionary vacation homes and Bible translation
centers, airplanes and videos, and the list
could go on and
on. By 2005, international LWML mission grants (including money for
mission in-reach to women) totaled more than $18,500,000. Adding the
75% in district grants and over $2,000,000 distributed from bequests
and anniversary thank offerings brings LWML gifts for the Lord's
service to more than $76,000,000. If interested, pick up your Mite
box in the Narthex.
Blessings
The blessing of the LWML goes far beyond the millions raised for
missions. Its benefits can be seen in faith deepened through Bible
studies, in confidence built through leadership training, in the
befriending of career missionaries, in blankets and clothing
gathered for the impoverished, in food shared with the hungry and,
above all, in the friendships nurtured and the lives changed by
sharing the love of Jesus Christ
Interested women at Faith 'Viera' Lutheran Church are encouraged to
join and become involved. For more information, please contact one
of the LWML officers:
Sheri Snapp President
Jean Baldini Treasurer