WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
$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
Training
$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
$4,700 to fund Kathy Wile’s ongoing and vital
ministry to missionary women in
$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,
Box-Top and
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:
Be certain to identify your district for
contest credit. Send by April 30th 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
WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
2006-2007
$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
$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.
$3500 to provide our pastoral
care for our Missionaries in
$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.
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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,
or Joy Mathiesen, 1421
Highway Terrace,
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
WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
2005-2006
$3500 will go toward the support of Jeff and Heather Olsen as they move to
$3500 will go to support Liz Barton, as she moves back to Fergus Falls and goes
full time with Youth Ministries.
$3500 will go toward pastoral care for our Missionaries in
$3500 will be given to fund another "S.W.E.E.T. Retreat" for seminary
wives
(Seminary Wives Encouraging, Equipping, and
Training)
$1000 will be given toward new gym locker room benches
$5000 will provide for training and encouragement to
Lutheran Brethren Pastors’ wives at a retreat setting in three other districts.
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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,
or Alice Spidahl,
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 1st
to
A donation of $10 for supplies is invited. Each district and
the national team are asked to do likewise.
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
WMCLB PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
2004-2005
$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!
$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.
$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.
$3,500 will be given to Potifar
Souina, a pastor from our sister Church in
$3,500 will be given to support
Monetary
donations are needed for Missionaries’ household needs.
Please
send them to:
Martha
Overgaard,
or Alice
Spidahl,
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,
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.
Please
continue to send labels to:
Be certain to identify your district for contest credit.