# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S43
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the LWML money and allowing the committee members to serve from
their homes.
Our Lord has blessed the LWML with mite offerings of over $100 million given to grant recipients around the world in the past 70 years.
In January 2011, the first LWML DVD Bible study, Your Strong Suit,
was produced with Donna Pyle and Artesian Ministries.
In 2012, the 40 LWML districts held conventions with over 10,700
in attendance. The districts voted over $5.7 million in support for the
mission outreach and focus of the LWML.
In March 2012, three members of the LWML Executive Committee
traveled to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to resume our face-to-face
fellowship with LWML—Canada. This meeting was reciprocated by
three members of the LWML—Canada’s General Council, including
President Iris Barta, attending meetings in Saint Louis, Missouri, in
October 2012.
Our Internet communications have been expanded, offering an eQuarterly and daily electronic Mustard Seed Devotions.
In October 2012, just over 200 women, representing every district,
gathered for the Inspiration 2012, PING (Prepare, Inspire, Nourish,
Go) training event in Saint Louis, Missouri.

In January 2013, the LMWL Board of Directors adopted the following three targets and goals for the 2013–15 biennium:

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Grace Place for LCMS International Missionaries

$75,000

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Pregnancy Center: Newborn Protection—Malaysia,
Southeast Asia

$54,500

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The Lutheran Malaria Initiative—Kenya, East
Africa
Two Graduate Scholarships for International/
Minority Students—Concordia Seminary, St.
Louis, Missouri
Project JOE—Outreach to Youth—Central/South
America

$100,000

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Children’s Development Disabilities Group Home
and Rehabilitation Center—Dominican Republic

$100,000

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Missionary Family Care and Education

$100,000

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Gospel Outreach through Open Arms Child Care

$65,000

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Haskell Indian Nations University Lutheran
Campus Ministry Expansion—Lawrence, Kansas

$100,000

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Financial Support for LCMS Prison and Jail
Ministry Conference

$27,500

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Physical and Spiritual Nourishment for the
Impoverished—United States/Mexico Border

$27,970.36

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Primary Target: NURTURING FAITH IN CHRIST

$50,000
$75,000

Kay A. Kreklau, President

We are committed to helping every woman find personal opportunities in her daily life and in her congregation to be nurtured in faith in
Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to discover her unique
gifts and value in God’s family.
Primary Target: SHARING ENCOURAGEMENT

We believe that women value the friendship, support, and encouragement from other women and strive to offer warm, welcoming
opportunities for women to grow in faith and relationships as sisters in Christ.
Primary Target: MAKING OUR MISSION MEANINGFUL

We challenge and equip women of all ages, stages, ethnicities, and
experiences to make a meaningful difference in the lives of hurting,
helpless, and unbelieving people at home and throughout the world.
The LWML met in convention June 27–30, 2013, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, to celebrate under the theme Quenched! by the Water,
based on John 4:14. New mission grants were selected for the 2013–
15 biennium, past grant recipients shared their stories, and attendees
had opportunities to worship, encounter Him in His Word, and live
boldly as His children. New officers were elected to serve the organization 2013–17.
As the women’s auxiliary of the LCMS, we are blessed to be
“Baptized for the Moment.”
2011–13 Mission Grants
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Support for Lutheran Orphanages—Haiti

$70,000

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Lutheran Braille Workers Plate Embossing Device

$100,000

3

Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT) Spread God’s
Word through Print and Audio

$97,344

4

Outreach to At-Risk Children—Detroit, Michigan

$55,000

5

Cancer Care Package Ministry

$100,000

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Crow Indian Ministry—Montana

$69,999.64

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Exodus 2:6 Project: Spiritual Care in Disasters—
Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma

$50,000

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Children’s Nutrition and Care—Vietnam

$72,255

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International Lutheran Laymen’s League
(Lutheran Hour Ministries)
Introduction
The International Lutheran Laymen’s League (Int’l LLL) serves
as a grassroots auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
and Lutheran Church—Canada by focusing its energies on a mission
of Bringing Christ to the Nations—and the Nations to the Church.
Because of God’s great blessings and the success He has granted
through The Lutheran Hour radio program, the Int’l LLL captured
the essence of our ministry in 1992 when it adopted the title Lutheran
Hour Ministries (LHM) to better describe our outreach ministries.
Thus, the International Lutheran Laymen’s League is the corporate
name under which we do business; Lutheran Hour Ministries is the
public identity under which we conduct worldwide Gospel outreach
on a daily basis.
Lutheran Hour Ministries serves as a catalyst in connecting the
unchurched and dechurched with congregations of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod and Lutheran Church—Canada (as well
as partner congregations worldwide). The ministry carries out its mission by developing culturally relevant programs and projects that
proclaim the Gospel to the unchurched, encouraging those people
who are reached through these ministry efforts to respond by contacting staff or volunteers. Relationships are then cultivated with those
who have responded, ultimately to facilitate a relationship between
them and a congregation, thus helping to grow the kingdom of God.
Lutheran Hour Ministries’ ultimate goal is to see people transformed through the Holy Spirit into the creation God intended.
Therefore, Lutheran Hour Ministries is on the frontiers of communicating the Good News of Jesus to the hurting and lost, facilitating
eternal relationships. The ministry is actively engaged, alongside
ministry partners, in connecting the hurting and lost to the church
community, resulting in change and hope in our world.

2013 Convention Workbook