The women of the seventies continued to increase their budget to meet more needs. Concerned with helping the financial needs of the synod, a “pie-shaped” budget was adopted.  Thus WMF began using the same percentages as the synod did for World Missions, Home Missions, Lutheran Brethren Schools, Lutheran Brethren Homes, Publications, and the Synodical offices.  Some of the projects included transportation costs for Pastor Kosukegawa from Japan, and Pastor Manikasset from Africa to attend the World Congress on Evangelism in Lausanne, Switzerland, help for the costs of printing the Fulani Bible, a smoke alarm system for Hillcrest, a vehicle for LBS gospel teams to travel, and continuing support for “Mission to America” ministry.

Women of the seventies gave so generously that many years the budget was met in May, and there were “overages” of money by convention time.  What fun it was to decide where to give those extra thousands of dollars!

For several years during the annual convention, as many as twenty groups presented a fifty-minute workshop for women to choose from, to learn the variety of mission projects and programs that their sisters in Christ used in their churches.

WMF’s Silver Anniversary was celebrated at “The Charlemagne,” near Tuscarora Inn, Pennsylvania, and a commemorative booklet was written by Historian, Estelle Rangen.