WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE

2007 -2008 Projects

NAM (North American Missions): Project funds will be divided in two ways
$3,000 to fund assessments and leadership training for potential church developers.
$1,700 to fund 2007 Youth Convention Seminars for issues relevant to our youth. The convention will be held Estes Park, Colorado in August, 2007.

Training Mission (Seminary): Project funds will be divided in three ways.
$3,000 to fund Seminary Scholarships for women, especially those pursuing careers in missions.
$1,000 to fund a portion of the Seminary Women’s Retreat (SWEET) in the fall of 2007.
$700 to fund child care for the children of women enrolled or auditing classes in Seminary.

International Mission (World Missions):
$4,700  to fund Kathy Wile’s ongoing and vital ministry to missionary women in Africa and Asia. Beginning this year, 2007, Kathy and John will be going to our Africa field twice each year since the African missionaries are much more isolated.

Hillcrest Lutheran Academy:
$1,000 to implement a devotional series by Bob Tissot called Purity and Holiness. This would include curriculum and training for the girl’s dorm staff and provide a book for each girl in the dorm.

NWMT Special Project:
$5,000 to fund the completion of the first year of Leadership Training Conferences in each district and to develop and implement a second year of district workshops. We believe that raising up and training new leaders, as well as equipping existing leaders is essential to our vision for a renewal of women's ministries in the CLB.

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H.E.L.P.:  Household Equipment Linen Project (formerly Linen Fund)
Provides funds to alleviate the cost of missionary family needs when going overseas or returning for furlough, as well as aiding retiring missionaries to help set up their households upon returning to the homeland.
Please send funds to:
Martha Overgaard, 511 East St. Charles Avenue, Fergus Falls, MN 56537 or Joy Mathiesen, 1421 Highway Terrace, Fergus Falls MN 56537

Box-Top and Campbell Soup Label Contest:
Each District is competing to gather the greatest number of labels (including box-tops) for the “Labels for Education” Project. Please continue to send labels and box-tops to:
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, Ruth Juliot, 610 Hillcrest Dr., Fergus Falls, MN 56537
Be certain to identify your district for contest credit. Send by April 30^th each year.

Digital StoryBook:
A Digital StoryBook will be kept to preserve an account of our times for the future. The National and District Teams are encouraged to send photo CD’s of special events. With the CD, please include a description of the event and a caption for each picture, including names of the people in the picture. Local Women’s Mnistries groups are welcome to participate. Send CD’s to:

Barbara Egge, 22166 River Oaks Dr., Fergus Falls, MN 56537 jb@egges.net

WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE

2006-2007 

HOME MISSIONS

$3500 to provide potential church planting couples with assessments. These assessments provide tools to help them assess the challenges they will face in a church planting setting, gain an understanding of their role on a church planting team, and help us to walk alongside them with training and coaching

YOUTH MINISTRIES

$3500 for continued support of Liz Barton during her first year of full-time salary and benefits. This support will continue to encourage Liz and make the continuation of her work possible within the CLB. Liz serves as a program coordinator for Youth Convention and an instructor for Servant Teams. She also helps coordinate the overall LBYM work in the office.

WORLD MISSIONS

$3500 to provide our pastoral care for our Missionaries in Africa. Our pastoral care team, John and Kathy Wile, will visit our missionaries in Africa this summer as a part of our pastoral care ministry. This support will help fund Kathy’s on-going ministry, including the trip to interact face to face with these women serving the church in Africa. Pastoral care is a crucial part of supporting our staff as they labor in a cross-cultural setting.

LUTHERAN BRETHREN SCHOOLS

$3500 to fund grants for women preparing for ministry in the CLB. Two women will enroll in the seminary programs with this ministry goal in mind. Our hope is that more women will be called by God to ministry and that we will have an opportunity to equip them.

HILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMY

$1000 will be given towards a new computer in the girls’ dorm. The students use computers for research on the internet and also other “homework” needs. We will continue to support Hillcrest with the Campbell Labels and Box-Top projects.

NWMT (National Women's Ministry Team) PROJECT

$5000 will provide NWMT Leadership Training Conferences to be carried out under the management of the Leadership Training Task Force. This task force needs funds for curriculum development, materials for the conferences, and transportation.

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H.E.L.P

Household Equipment Linen Project (formerly Linen Fund)
Provides funds to alleviate the cost of missionary family needs when going overseas or returning for furlough, as well as aiding retiring missionaries to help set up their households upon returning to the homeland.
Please send funds to:
Martha Overgaard, 511 East St. Charles Avenue, Fergus Falls, MN 56537
or Joy Mathiesen, 1421 Highway Terrace, Fergus Falls MN 56537

HISTORIAN ASSIGNMENT

Each local congregation Women’s Ministries as well as districts and national teams are asked to take photos of special events, meetings, Bible studies, retreats, etc. to fill a 12X12 scrapbook page. A donation of $10 for supplies is invited.
You are welcome to send all photos from the year 2006, no later than January 15, 2007 to:
Alice Lunde, 719 Two Rivers Road, Fergus Falls, MN 56537-4007

BOX-TOP AND CAMPBELL LABEL PROJECT

WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE

2005-2006

HOME MISSIONS

$3500 will go toward the support of Jeff and Heather Olsen as they move to Florida to start planting a new church.

YOUTH MINISTRIES

$3500 will go to support Liz Barton, as she moves back to Fergus Falls and goes full time with Youth Ministries.

WORLD MISSIONS

$3500 will go toward pastoral care for our Missionaries in Asia. Our pastoral care team, John and Kathy Wile, will be visiting our missionaries in Asia as a part of the pastoral care ministry. This support will help fund Kathy’s on-going ministry including the trip(s) to interact face to face with these women serving the church in Asia

LUTHERAN BRETHREN SCHOOLS

$3500 will be given to fund another "S.W.E.E.T. Retreat" for seminary wives
(Seminary Wives Encouraging, Equipping, and Training)

HILLCREST LUTHERAN ACADEMY

$1000 will be given toward new gym locker room benches

NWMT PROJECT

$5000 will provide for training and encouragement to Lutheran Brethren Pastors’ wives at a retreat setting in three other districts.

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H.E.L.P.

Household Equipment Linen Project (formerly Linen Fund)

Provides funds to alleviate the cost of missionary family needs when going overseas or returning for furlough, as well as aiding retiring missionaries to help set up their households upon returning to the homeland.

Please send funds to:

Martha Overgaard, 511 East St. Charles Avenue, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

or Alice Spidahl, 1010 Meadow Hill Lane, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

HISTORIAN ASSIGNMENT

Each local congregation Women’s Ministries is asked to take photos of special events, meetings, Bible studies, retreats, etc. to fill a 12X12 scrapbook page. Please send the photos no later than February 1^st to Alice Lunde, 719 Two Rivers Road, Fergus Falls, MN 57537, who will mount and assemble them for display at the annual convention.

A donation of $10 for supplies is invited. Each district and the national team are asked to do likewise.

BOX-TOP AND CAMPBELL LABEL PROJECT

Each District is competing to gather the greatest number of labels (including box tops) for the “Labels for Education” Project. Please continue to send labels and box-tops to Hillcrest Lutheran Academy and be certain to identify your district for contest credit.

WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE

2004-2005 

WMCLB SPECIAL PROJECTS

$5,000 will provide for training and encouragement of Lutheran Brethren Pastor’s wives in each district at a

retreat setting.

$1,000 will be spent from funds already collected to continue Project S.W.E.E.T. (Seminary Wives’ Encouraging, Equipping and Training). The purpose of the project is to train, encourage and support the Lutheran Brethren Seminary wives. This year we will continue the mentoring relationships between pastor’s wives and seminary wives by holding a Spring, 2005 Brunch and treating them again to a S.W.E.E.T. gift certificate!

HOME MISSIONS

$3,500 will go toward the printing of a Home Missions devotional book to be distributed to churches and individuals within the CLB. The book will consist of testimonies and the church planting stories behind many of the churches that have been started within our denomination.

LUTHERAN BRETHREN SCHOOLS

$3,500 will be used for educating women at the Seminary via Childcare funds for seminary wives who would like to audit courses with their husbands, and Scholarships for women who desire to further their education to be of service to women in the CLB.

WORLD MISSIONS

$3,500 will be given to Potifar Souina, a pastor from our sister Church in Chad, to be used when he continues his studies at an evangelical seminary in the Central African Republic. This money will allow his wife Odile and his family to join him there and will allow Odile to also take some classes.

YOUTH MINISTRIES

$3,500 will be given to support Elizabeth Barton, now a part-time employee of LBYM. Liz will complete her Bachelors Degree at the end of the school year in 2005. Raising support for her salary gives her a wonderful opportunity to communicate the importance of her work to many of her friends, her family and her home congregation. 

LINEN CLOSET

Monetary donations are needed for Missionaries’ household needs. 

Please send them to:

Martha Overgaard, 511 East St. Charles Avenue, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

or Alice Spidahl, 1010 Meadow Hill Lane, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

HISTORIAN ASSIGNMENT

Each local congregation Women’s Ministry is asked to take photos of special events, meetings, Bible studies, retreats, etc. to fill a 12”x12” scrapbook page.

Please send the photos no later than April 15 to:

Alice Lunde, 719 Two Rivers Road, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

She will mount and assemble them for display at the annual convention. A donation of $10 for supplies is invited. Each district and the national team are asked to do likewise.

CAMPBELL SOUP LABEL PROJECT

Please continue to send labels to:

Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, JoAnn Levang, Project Coordinator,

610 Hillcrest Drive, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

Be certain to identify your district for contest credit.