LUTHERAN WOMEN IN MISSION The Lutheran Women's Missionary League
is the official women's auxiliary of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. For over 65 years, the LWML has focused on affirming
each woman's relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission
ministries and to support global missions. The purpose of the LWML is to develop and maintain a greater mission consciousness
among the women of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod through Mission Education, Mission Inspiration, and Mission Service,
and to gather funds for mission grants. The national body
meets in convention in odd-numbered years. For information, visit their web site at http://www.lwml.org. LWML Districts initiate programs and projects as well as implement those of the national body. We are affiliated
with the Florida-Georgia District LWML. For information, visit their web site at http://www.flgalwml.com A zone is a group of societies and individual members in the same geographic area united to promote the objectives
of the LWML. The East Central Georgia Zone is comprised of the LWML units at Our Redeemer, Augusta;
Hope, Milledgeville; Trinity, Savannah; St. Paul's, Statesboro; and Mt. Calvary, Warner Robins. Our Zone President,
Karen Bowers, is a member of Our Redeemer, Augusta. She can be reached at karen-bowers@hotmail.com. Societies/units are the foundation upon which the LWML is built. The entire LWML begins with society
members at the congregational level. Membership is available to any woman who is a communicant member of a Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod congregation. Our Redeemer LWML's mission is to assist each woman of the congregation to affirm
her relationship with the triune God so that she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the people of Augusta and the
world. We serve the Lord with Gladness, foster Christian fellowship and participate in the ministry of our congregation.
We provide the official publication of the national LWML, "Lutheran Women's Quarterly" to our members.
Extra copies are available for those who are interested. The FL/GA District's ‘Evangel' newsletter is now published
in electronic format (e-Evangel) Sign
up to receive the e-Evangel by contacting: flgaevangel@yahoo.com with your name, church, zone and email. Our unit holds regular meetings with
an LWML emphasis and the in-gathering of mites. We have a love offering to help meet our local expenses and a love offering
to help support our local mission project - the Downtown Cooperative Church Ministries (DCCM).
SOCIETY OFFICERS
President:
Marsha Bohannon (2011-2013) bobook78@gmail.com Vice-President: Marlene Weddell (2011-2013)kenmar413@comcast.net Secretary: Ruth
Ann Nolde (2010-2012) ranolde@bellsouth.net Treasurer: Diane James (2011-2013) purdue6264@comcast.net Past Presidents: LaVon Dunker, Linda Waid STANDING COMMITTEES We have devotions at each Unit meeting led by the Spiritual Growth committee.The Vice-President, as program chair,
provides Christian programs and/or skits. We encourage prayer every Monday at noon for LWML mission projects along with other LWMLers across the nation. We encourage members to attend Zone rallies, District
retreats and conventions, and National conventions when possible. The unit members work together to fulfill our mission goals.
MITES Money collected
regularly in our mite boxes - is sent to the District office where 75% is kept for District mission grants and programs and
25% is sent to the National LWML for their mission grants and programs. These mites are collected with prayers for the
mission grants and a devotion by the Mission Service committee. You can go to the national and district web sites for
updates on the grants and descriptions of the agencies receiving the grants. Karen Bowers coordinates the collection
and distribution of Mites and provides members with a Mites devotional at every meeting.
Local Mission Project: The Downtown Cooperative Church
Ministries - Feeding the hungry in our community. This non-profit organization purchases canned goods from Golden Harvest Food Bank and distributes bags to about 200
families a week. In addition to financial support, we encourage our women to volunteer at the site. Ruth Ann Nolde coordinates
our sponsorship and volunteers. Our
Card Ministry: We send cards to women for birthdays, illness, and other life-events; to military personnel;
to singles; to college students; and to shut-ins. We encourage all our members to send cards to the congregation's shut-ins.
LaVon Dunker sends the military cards, Judy Diebold sends the birthday cards to members, and Bonnie McClain sends cards to
singles and shut-ins. Annual
Rummage Sale: The money we make from the annual rummage sale assists us with all our
mission outreach projects and supplements our expenses to the rallies, conventions, and retreats. Other
Group Projects: We provide refreshments for the Sunday fellowship hours, Lenten and Advent lunches, make banners for confirmands,
gather food and assemble Thanksgiving baskets, purchase kitchen equipment, clean the church and contribute to an in-gathering
of gifts (Gifts from the Heart) at Zone, District and National meetings. Throughout 2009-2011 we have supported John Ninke, son-in-law of ORLC members,
Joe & Dot Dromsky, through gifts from our annual rummage sale receipts. John began his vicarage at Trinity Lutheran
Church, Scottsdale, Alabama, this summer. DATES TO REMEMBER: Board meetings (after 2nd service): Oct 23, Dec 11, Feb 19, Apr 22 Unit meetings (after 2nd service): Sep 18, Nov 13, Jan 15, Mar 18, May
20 Rummage sale: September
10 FL-GA District Retreat: Sept 30-Oct 2, 2011 Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center, Leesburg, FL East Central Georgia
Zone Fall Rally: October 15, Trinity Lutheran, Savannah, GA FL-GA District Convention: Sept 28-Sept 30, 2012, Orlando
Airport Marriot Hotel, Orlando, FL National Convention: June 27-30, 2013, Pittsburg, PA National Convention: June 25-28, 2015, Des
Moines, IA
National Convention: June 22-25, 2017, Salt Lake City, UT
FL-GA
DISTRICT LWML MISSION GRANTS
Listed below are
the mission grants and scholarships being funded through the 2012 biennium. With the mites that are received
from units and zones. Grants are funded as the project requests monies
and funds become available. $127,399.73 BUDGETED AMOUNT TO FUND
ALL GRANTS:
| |
|
| Mission Grant |
| Funded Thru Feb. 1, 2011 | | Scholarships for Pastoral Students |
| | 15,000.00 |
| | | Scholarships for Church Worker Students |
| 15,000.00
| | | | Financial
Assistance for Concordia Theological Seminary |
| | | | |
Ft Wayne, IN Food and Clothing Coop for Food
| 15,000.00 |
|
| | Operation Barnabas (LCMS Chaplains)
| | | 8,000.00
| | | | Trinity/HOPE
(lunches for church-school in Haiti) |
| 5,000.00 |
| 2,500.00
| | Lutheran Blind Mission Outreach Center,
Tampa | | 5,000.00 | | 5,000.00
| | Solar Lighting Project. Lutheran Mission
Project | | |
| | | | of Guinaudee/Haiti
| |
| | 9,992.06 |
| 5,900.00 | |
Resolution for Lutheran Bible Translators |
| 10,000.00
| | 5,000.00 | | Hands
of Mercy, Sudan, Special Needs Classroom | 8,000.00
| | | | Brevard
Rescue Mission - Casa Carol |
| | 12,000.00 |
| 6,000.00 | |
District Peer Ministry Training |
|
| |
| | | | and Leadership
Development, Gainesville, FL | |
| 15,000.00
| | | | Give
the World a Jesus Hug |
| |
| |
| | | | Open Arms Child
Development, Gainesville, FL | 4,703.84
| | | | Constructing
Houses in Nicaragua |
| 4,703.83 |
| |
| | | | | |
| 127,399.73
| | 24,400.00 | |
|
|
| | |
NATIONAL LWML
MISSION GRANTS
2011-2013 Biennium
Mission
Goal: $1,825,000.00 | |
Disbursed | Balance
| | 1. |
Support for Lutheran Orphanages - Haiti | $0 | $70,000
| | 2. | Lutheran Braille Workers
Plate Embossing Device | $0 | $100,000 |
| 3. | Lutheran Bible Translators
(LBT) Spread God's Word Through Print and Audio | $0 | $97,344
| | 4. | Outreach to At-Risk
Children - Detroit, Michigan | $0 | $55,000
| | 5. | Cancer Care Package Ministry
| $0 | $100,000 | |
6. | Crow Indian Ministry - Montana | $0
| $69,999.64 | | 7. |
Exodus 2:6 Project: Spiritual Care in Disasters - Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma |
$0 | $50,000 | | 8.
| Children's Nutrition and Care - Vietnam | $0 |
$72,255 | | 9. | Grace Place for LCMS International Missionaries | $0 |
$75,000 | | 10. | Pregnancy Center: Newborn Protection - Malaysia, Southeast Asia | $0
| $54,500 | | 11. |
The Lutheran Malaria Initiative - Kenya, East Africa | $0
| $100,000 | | 12. |
Two Graduate Scholarships for International/Minority Students - Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
Missouri | $0 | $50,000 |
| 13. | Project JOEL - Outreach to Youth - Central/South
America | $0 | $75,000 |
| 14. | Children's Developmental Disabilities Group
Home and Rehabilitation Center - Dominican Republic | $0 | $100,000
| | 15. | Missionary Family
Care and Education | $0 | $100,000 |
| 16. | Gospel Outreach Through Open Arms
Child Care | $0 | $65,000 |
| 17. | Haskell Indian Nations University Lutheran
Campus Ministry Expansion - Lawrence, Kansas | $0 | $100,000
| | 18. | Financial Support
for LCMS Prison and Jail Ministry Conference | $0 | $27,500
| | 19. | Physical and Spiritual
Nourishment for the Impoverished - United States/Mexico Border (partially funded) |
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