LWMS Grab bag
"LWMS is women dedicated to serving Jesus by increasing awareness of, interest in, and support of the mission outreach of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)."
What is the LWMS Mission Statement?
The Pastor serving as Heritage Circuit's new BAM Home Missionary.
Who is Pastor John Ehlers?
BAM mission field assignment for the Heritage Circuit
What is WELS Hmong Asian Mission: Hanoi, Vietnam?
This LWMS circuit encompasses one individual member and 17 congregations from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.
What is the Heritage Circuit?
A virtual event that was originally planned for Sharonville Ohio.
What is the 2021 LWMS International Convention?
Brat Fest in October and other community service events.
What are outreach and community projects in which the members of Cross of Glory - Vistana Campus are involved?
The purpose WELS collected a special offering of $2 million in 2019.
What is, to continue the ministry of Pastor Bounkeo Lor to train the leaders of the Hmong Fellowship Church, purchase land, build a training center, and cover the initial two years of operational costs for the theological education center in Hanoi?
The former Heritage Circuit SEND ONE SISTER grant recipient(s) who have attended LWMS International Conventions for the FIRST time.
Who are Beth Prellwitz, Catherine Lum and Cynthia Leudtke?
The last full weekend in June
When is the International LWMS Convention held annually?
Our BAM home mission is a new branch of a multi-site campus congregation located in what area that is projected to grow by 52,000 people in a 5-mile radius and could include 15,000 children.
What is Peoria AZ - Cross of Glory - Vistancia Campus?
The pastor commissioned at the Taste and See Event in summer of 2020.
Who is Pastor Joel Nitz? Pastor is anticipating going to Hanoi, Vietnam in 2021.
What is Heritage Circuit Facebook Page link?
- Please "like" and follow for mission info!
Local, Circuit, and International
What are the three levels LWMS is divided into?
- LOCAL- Member congregations and individual with a "reporter": CIRCUIT- Several congregations in an area, choose mission projects and hold spring or fall rallies: INTERNATIONAL - collect membership dues, ensure mission money supports our mission projects, Holds international conventions.
Good Shepherd Lutheran in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
What is the new call location for our newly assigned (and quickly transferred) BAM Pastor, Pastor Aaron Goetzinger?
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
- by Anne Fadiman
What is the Book Pastor Nitz recommends to us to learn about the Hmong people?
The number of BAM pastors the Heritage Circuit was originally assigned in 2021.
What is three? Pastor Ehlers, Nitz, and Goetzinger. Pastor Goetzinger was called to our home mission congregation of Redemption Lutheran Church, Watertown, NY, but accepted another call shortly after this assignment.
1960
What is the year LWMS was initiated by women who began supporting missions together?
Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings.
What are all Michigan teams that Pastor Ehlers likes?
Bonus point - Can you name the type of team for the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings?
8,464 miles
What is the distance from Winston-Salem NC to Hanoi Vietnam. Pastor Nitz, his wife Kathryn, and daughter Talitha will be very far from home, family, familiar language, culture and surroundings. Please pray for them!
The name of your church's LWMS reporter?
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