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Michigan District
Lutheran Women's Missionary League Guide for Local Society and Church Leaders
Excerpts from the Michigan District LWML
Leaders Guide
"God
bless you with joy as you serve Him and the women of your congregation
as society or congregational women’s leader. This is an exciting
opportunity to make an eternal difference in the lives of people who
will be affected by the ministries your women offer to people in the
church, your community and throughout the world. The purpose of
this Guide is to assist you as you serve as leader of God’s people. It
seeks to answer questions that often come up in the workings of a
society or church affiliated with the Lutheran Women's Missionary
League. With that in mind, let’s begin to explore some procedures you
may need to know to be an effective leader for the good of the women
and the glory of God."
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 Program
Booklet,
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!
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