Giving Through Lutheran World Relief

Martin Luther Church is just one of over 3,000 congregations that carefully made or packed 2,000 TONS of gifts - quilts, clothing, school and health kits, layettes and soap - for Lutheran World Relief recipients worldwide.

(l to r) Denise Eggers, Cody Baack, Madelyn Harrifeld, Ben and Ryan Bohling, and Ginny Baack sort through the items which go into the individual school bags.

School Kits are a project of the Tabitha Circle.  Members of Martin Luther Church donate items including notebooks, rulers, scissors,  pencils, pencil sharpeners, crayons, erasers & construction paper which will be placed into a bag that can be carried to school.


High School helpers, Cody Baack and Ashley Andersen



Tabitha Circle specifically enlists the help of the High School Sunday School class to help to assemble the kits.   This year they were able to put together and send 66 kits onto Lutheran World Relief who will then get them into the hands of children like this: 

                                                               

The Faith-Hope/Naomi-Ruth Circle collects and puts together Health Kits for Lutheran World Relief.  Members of Martin Luther Church donate items such as hand towels, washcloths, toothbrushes, nail files, combs, bar soap and band aids which the Faith-Hope/Naomi-Ruth Circle assemble into Health Kits for Lutheran World Relief.

Health Kits are being assembled here by (l to r) Norma Speckmann, Joan Bohling, and Marcille Bohling

Lutheran World Relief delivers Health Kits to places like refugee camps, places of disaster (Health Kits arrived in Haiti just two weeks after the devastating earthquake last January),
or to orphanages, like this:

The Faith-Hope/Naomi-Ruth Circle put together 40 Health Kits for LWR.

Tangible giving such as the School and Health Kits aren't the only way that Martin Luther Church gives through Lutheran World Relief.  For years, there's been a group of ladies that gather on Mondays in the fall, winter and spring months to put their careful and loving stitches into hand-tied quilts that will be shipped via Lutheran World Relief worldwide to persons in need.  Take a look at the picture taken from the LWR website (below) and you can about imagine a group of "sewing ladies" somewhere in one of those 3000 congregations working together to put together a quilt such as this:

MLC sent 98 quilts to persons in need through the Lutheran World Relief effort. 

This was a large portion of the 110 quilts that were made during the past sewing season. 

One blanket was given to David Oestmann

and seven of the blankets were sold to MLC members. 

Martin Luther Church also collects soap for Lutheran World Relief

and gathered 45 bars for the LWR shipment.