Mission Awareness
Dates for the MOST/LWML Mission
Trips for 2008
1. MOST/LWML
Mission Trip to Honduras with Eyeglasses and Women's
Ministry will take place August 1 - 9, 2008. Sandy Hardies,
Team Leader.
2. MOST/LWML
Mission Trip to Cambodia with Eyeglasses will take place
November 3 - 16, 2008.
Contact Dee Veitengruber, MOST/LWML
Liaison, at
webmaster@mi-lwml.org for more information or to register.
Does you Mite
box get hungry – a lot?
The Mission Outreach Committee is always
on the lookout for new and exciting ways to remind us to feed our
mite containers. Yes, we do sometimes need to have catchy ways to
interest others in giving to mites.
One of the best ways
I have found of filling Mite boxes is DISCIPLINE. This discipline
is seen through generations of families who have followed the
example (Luke 11: 7) of the older generations prayerfully placing
coins into a box for use in God’s church.
According to Hebrews
5: 10-12, how are we to be in our discipline? It is this kind of
discipline that helped meet the national mite goal – one that seemed
impossible to meet. We have witnessed that, with God’s help, as we
focus on His will, anything can be accomplished.
Using the traveling Mite Can is a very
handy way of feeding my mites more regularly.
How is
your “Neighbor” connectedness?
For those who have to stay closer to home, our service to the Lord
in evangelism is right under our noses. Think back on a time where
you had an opportunity to share something from your spiritual
journey with another, but failed to act. Read the parable of the
Good Samaritan in Luke 25: 30-37. What might you be able to do when
your next opportunity presents itself? Are you always so busy that
you do not have time to show needed love and concern for your fellow
man? Do you fail to act out of fear? What does Matthew 10: 28 warn
against?
This same Jesus who
forgives us for times when we have failed to help our neighbor is
the Savior of all people. By taking action you may some day be God’s
voice to tell the good news of salvation that will make an eternal
difference in someone’s life.
Click here for a Mite
Box Devotion!
For information on Michigan
Missionaries:
For regular updates on some of the
missionaries from World
Missions, go to their website at
www.lcmsworldmission.org
For Information About Our Mission Grants
and those at the National Level:
Look at
Mission Grants on this site for
Michigan mission grants and link to the national
level Mission Grants or that level’s grants.
The Mission Outreach Vice President, Sharron
Sheridan keeps Michigan District’s grants
updated as to our funding progress.
Many societies are still using the baby
booties/socks to put a dime into on a regular
schedule to try to get them filled by a given
time. We will try to get that particular activity
written up for you as it was quite well received
and brought in a lot in mite money.
Our goal is to supply you with as many ideas as
possible so that our mite giving will meet our goals
to pay the mission grants voted in at our
convention and that of the national ones too. We need to be more
committed to our efforts at giving what we can
out of what God blesses us with on a daily basis.
