It is NOT Too Late For YOU to Join the FL-GA LWML TEAM Going to Nicaragua!!! Hurry....the deadline has been extended!!! We are so excited!! You don't want to miss out on this fantastic opportunity to Serve the Lord with Gladness in Nicaragua.
Lois, Carol, Julie, Karen, Kathi, Kristen, Michelle, Miriam, Ruth, and Shelby are part of the team of women who would like to use their gifts to serve our Lord in Nicaragua. WE WOULD LIKE LEAST TWO MORE.
Our date is JUNE 25 – July 3, 2010. A group of ladies from our district will travel to Nicaragua where we will hold a Women’s retreat and a VBS style workshop for their children. Continued on "Mission Trip to Nicaragua" page....click here
UPDATE - LWML GRANT "THE CARPENTER'S HANDS - YOUTH REFURBISH HOMES IN FLORIDA"
The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) voted at the Portland LWML Convention in June 2009 to grant $26,000 to provide a used van outfitted with tools that are needed for the work of “The Carpenter’s Hands.” Eighty grant requests had been received and 28 were chosen to be on the ballot. This project received the third highest number of votes at the Convention. Teens from Grace Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg, FL who want to make life better for those in their community are involved in this group under the direction of Youth Director Carl Schleede and adult volunteers. They repair the inside and outside of homes of elderly people who, because of physical or financial difficulties, cannot do it themselves.
November 22, 2009 was a day for celebration as LWML President Jan Wendorf presented a check to Rev. Kevin Loughran, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in payment of this grant, during the 11:00 AM worship service. She quoted James 1:22, But be doers of the Word and not hearers only. She commended the group for their work in helping those in need in the St. Petersburg area. FL-GA District President Marilyn Treanor and others were also in attendance and at the reception following.
Top Left: LWML President Jan Wendorf presenting check to Rev. Loughran
Top Right: LWML President Jan Wendorf and Rev. Kevin Loughran
Lower Left: Linda Peters, LWML President Jan Wendorf, Fran Smoot, Lori Lachowicz, Atlanta North Zone President Laura Moore O'Connell, Janet Kraus, St. Petersburg Zone President Lillian Liston, FL-GA President Marilyn H. Treanor
Lower Right: St. Petersburg Zone President Lillian Liston, FL-GA President Marilyn H. Treanor, LWML President Jan Wendorf, Linda Peters
After the grant check presentation, Director Schleede shared a letter from one of the recipients: “My dad died. Then I was involved in a major accident … suffered six broken ribs, a broken sternum, shattered the right knee, tore the left shoulder, had several herniated discs and suffered a severe head injury. It took five months to learn to walk and nine months to make my mouth say what my mind was thinking. I had short-term memory loss. I could not work and my husband was working two jobs to make ends meet. My faith became weak and I wondered about my God.” The recipient concludes: “Then you, Carl, knocked at our door. Through your act of service and the team that you have brought in to help my family, our hope is being restored, a new foundation is being built, the coldness of my heart is melting away, and again I am finding the way … in the small and large things the group is doing for me, my husband and three children … I am slowly seeing that God is real … God does hear me and is concerned for me … Thank you from the very depths of my heart, a place that I haven’t visited in a long time!”
