# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S173
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OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS
LWML women continue to actively bring mission awareness to their congregations along with their acts of service. Bible
studies and devotions produced through the LWML include
daily emailed devotions, DVD Bible studies, yearly prayer services, and special services to recognize and promote the work of
the organization on LWML Sunday. Bible studies and devotions
give women experience in writing.
The LWML has a long history of supporting both monetarily and through prayer and gifts our church workers, seminarians, and pastors. Our grants, both national and district, support seminary and deaconess programs in our partner churches
as well. October 2018, we moved our offices from Concordia
Publishing House to the Concordia Seminary campus in Loeber
Hall.
Our women also are urged to be out in their communities
engaging with the local population giving them opportunities to
witness about Christ while serving His people. In 2016 we partnered with Synod to hold “Every One His Witness” workshops
as the program got started.
Our special outreach ministries to engage with multicultural women, young women, teens, church workers, and added this
year, the deaf women in our congregations continue to bring

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these special women into participation and leadership roles in
our organization.
Since last report of 2016 we have held a strategic planning
conference and also an Assembly of Leaders event involving
women from all 40 of our districts. We have also had 40 district
conventions in 2016 and again in 2018.
We continue our media presence through our website,
Facebook and Twitter conversations, Pinterest and eNews mailings. Our publication, Lutheran Woman’s Quarterly, published
quarterly, is the highest circulated women’s magazine in the
LCMS. Our editor and staff are part of our volunteer force. At
the 2017 convention, we adopted a new logo using a new icon
and reinstating the original gold and purple colors along with
using LWML—Lutheran Women in Mission.
Our 2019 convention will have taken place in Mobile, Alabama, June 20–23. The convention in 2021 will be in Lexington,
Kentucky. We invite everyone to join in this celebration.
Supporting our church for 76 years, LWML—Lutheran
Women in Mission have had as their motto, “Serve the Lord
with Gladness.” We have always been “Joy:fully Lutheran.”
Patti Ross, President

2019 Convention Workbook