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Energize Membership
The VERY, VERY BEST METHOD to
encourage LWML membership is to: Personally care
about each woman in the congregation
as Jesus cares for her. Get to know her, be interested
in her, share with her, be
enthusiastic about LWML, encourage her to become involved
in some aspect of LWML with you.
YOUR POSITIVE WORDS AND ATTITUDES ABOUT LWML ENERGIZES OTHERS!!!
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Ideas to Energize Membership
New Brides—Have a recipe shower
at a meeting. Visit the new bride and give her the
recipes and a copy of Marriage Matters and/or She Said...He Said,
from the LWML Catalog.
Mothers of New Babies—Present mothers with Lead Me, Lord,
through...Motherhood.
Present the new baby with an LWML bear.
Small
Bible Study Groups— Care and Share around the Word
Confirmand Parents Study for parents during time of students
confirmation class
Young Mothers Provide babysitter for a morning out study
Working Women 1/2 hour study at NOON—provide drinks
Prayer and Praise 7:00-7:30 a.m. for working women
Visitors Packet—Packet
of LWML materials given to welcome each visitor at an LWML
meeting. Packet could be: File Folder – Decorated Manila Envelope –
Zip
Lock Bag Contents: LWML Brochure, Mustard Seed, Society ProgramBooklet,
List of national and district mission grants, Lutheran Woman's Quarterly,
District Publication, Handwritten note of thanks for being a guest,
Small
LWML memento (Examples—LWML Magnet, Window Cling, Pen, Pencil,
Candy, Post-it Notes)
REMEMBER—Each
woman in the congregation will not be involved in every aspect of
the Lutheran Woman's Missionary League. Accept her where she is—but
continue to challenge and share with her
the various areas of
LWML BE ALL YOU CAN BE—AN ENERGIZED LWML MEMBER, SERVING THE LORD
WITH GLADNESS (Energize
Membership, is updated from the Energizer Kit, previously published
by the LWML)
Fellowship is Fun - Want to add a little spice to your
meetings? Suggest that everyone bring the same object to the
meeting. For example, everyone could bring a cross, a teacup, a hat.
Then each woman explains her item, where it came from, what special
significance it has...etc. Have everyone bring ten
pennies. At the beginning of the meeting explain that a certain word
(can’t, won’t, no) is forbidden during the meeting. If someone is
caught using the word, she must forfeit a penny to the person who
caught her. At the end of the meeting, the one with the most pennies
gets a small prize and all the pennies go to mites!
Michigan
District LWML Mission Statement
The mission of the Lutheran Women's
Missionary League is to assist each woman of The Lutheran
Church--Missouri Synod in affirming her relationship with the Triune
God so that she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the
people of the world.
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8/30/07
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