LWML

The mission of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League is to assist each woman of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in affirming her relationship with the Triune God so that she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the people of the world.

Local objectives are to carry out the program of the district and national organization which is dedicated to Missionary Education, Missionary Inspiration and Missionary Service. Local objectives are more specifically set forth as follows:

Originally organized February 20, 1926, as the Ladies Aid. Later revised with name changes. Circle plan initiated May 1964. Membership statistics are:

Executive Board Members for Fiscal Year 7-1-07 to 6-30-08 are left to right (seated) Melva Burmaster, Christian Growth; Marian Frederking, Treasurer; Janis Hamman, Hannah Chair; Pat Schempp, Priscilla Chair; Nellie Quade, President (standing) Phyllis Von Fange, Secretary and Martha Chair; Kathrine Young, Priscilla Co-Chair; Jeanie Hemmy, Vice President. Not pictured: Arlene Gerhardt and Dorothy Timm, Mission Service Directors; Margaret Bosch & Sharon Cross, Rebecca Co-chairs.

Trinity's LWML has four circles with special emphases. The 2007-2008 year info is as follows:

Hannah Circle ... concentrates on taking care of the church cancel and altar duties throughout the year. Besides preparations made with regard to when communion is served, weekly duties also include dusting the chancil, checking out the candles, and setting out the flowers, as well as the various banners to be put on display. The assignments for the 2005-2006 fiscal year as shown further below. Meeting time 7:00 p.m. -- 2nd Thursday Contact Jan Hamman 827-9656.

Martha Circle ... functions as kitchen and foods committee, making necessary arrangements for the serving of food functions for various church events, including funeral luncheons and/or anniversary celebrations when asked to help, serving as purchasing agent when something new is needed, and providing necessary information concerning proper use of automatic dishwasher, gas stove, convection oven, and all other kitchen equipment. Meeting time 2:00 p.m. -- 2nd Thursday . .Contact Phyllis Von Fange 827-3184, Eleanor Rindt 827-8026, Elaine Lyon 825-4531, Arlene Gerhardt 825-4971, or Judy Neuschafer 785-227-3201..

Priscilla Circle ... promotes concern with missions and collects used Christian materials to provide as giveaways at the LLL booth at the State Fair. The former project of sending these materials to overseas missionaries is no longer viable due to the high cost of shipping (postage). Materials needed for this project can be brought to the church at any time and include devotion books, such as Portals of Prayer & My Devotions, Happy Times, any kind of bible study guides, Bibles, new Testaments, concordances, catechisms, Bible story pictures, VBS materials, Arch books, Christian novels/stories/CD's and casette tapes. Meeting time 7:00 p.m. -- 1st Monday . .Contact Pat Schempp 823-7346.

Rebecca Circle ... promotes concern with ministry needs such as Bethesda Lutheran Homes Cheer Fund, collects Campbell soup labels for Christian schools, cancelled stamps for benefit of charitable organizations, and fronts of used greeting cards for St. Judes, plus visiting and sending cards to Trinity's homebound church members. Meeting time 7:00 p.m. --1st Thursday . . Contact Margaret Bosch 827-6339 or Sharon Cross 823-8949.

Trinity LWML has been blessed to have two dedicated co-directors of Mission Service (Arlene Gerhardt and Dorothy Timm) who ably organize and inspire several dozen volunteers to help with its annual donations to Lutheran World Relief. The recent LWR pickup at Trinity on 10-11-07 showed we loaded 14,582# in donations from area Kansas Lutheran churches. Next year's pick-up date will be Oct 9. Trinity's contribution included 50 school kits, 53 health kits, 33 layettes, 26 sewing kits, and 107 quilts of our 162 quilts (30 were previously given to Haskell Indian Institute, 2 to Camp Tomah Shinga quilt auction, 16 to DVACK, 1 to the national convention ingathering, and 6 reserved for our adopted Christmas families). Leftover clothing from our recent rummage sale was delivered as follows: 20 bags to the Orphan Grain Train Distribution Center at Herington (picked up by Riebhoffs), 5 bags to a thrift store in KC (the Lutheran Mission of Good Shepherd there no longer accepts clothing) and then 6 bags and 8 boxes of miscellaneous items to the local Good Will Store.

	Every second Tuesday each Month is LWML Blanket Workday
Dotty Timm, Emmaline Cummings, Meta Pistora		Wavy Schneider, Arlene Gerhardt and Dee Farris work on tying a pieced quilt.

Eleanor Cunningham and Phyllis Von Fange work at cutting out quilt blocks. Goal is to make 200 quilts for Lutheran World Relief each fiscal year.

9th & Crawford -- Phone 785-823-7151

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