Service: A Central Part of Our Gatherings!
Dear Friends,
“Service” is becoming a central part of our gatherings!
This year for our Called 2 Serve youth event, which takes place July 19-22 at Grand View University in Des Moines, one of the service projects is again working with Meals from the Heartland.
In order to reach our goal, we need about $10,000 to have 140 young people package meals for two hours, which would amount to about 50,000 meals.
At our Annual Gathering this year, we are working with Lutheran World Relief (LWR), one of the most efficient and effective relief agencies in the world.
Our goal is to have Annual Gathering participants (we normally get between 750 -1,100 people in attendance) assemble 10,000 personal care kits. To make this happen, we need to receive about $50,000 in special offerings from the congregations of LCMC. The people with LWR believe that we can easily assemble that many kits in Denver!
The people of our congregations have been extremely generous for these projects in the past, and I am hoping we can be once again.
If your church would like to participate, please send checks, made payable to to LCMC and earmarked for "Meals from the Heartland" or "Lutheran World Relief" to the LCMC office at:
LCMC
7000 N Sheldon Road
Canton, MI 48187
You can also make a donation online by clicking one (or both!) of the following links:
- Meals from the Heartland Service Project - Called 2 Serve
- Lutheran World Relief Service Project - Annual Gathering
All funds need to be received by July 1, 2016 so we can purchase needed supplies.
Sincerely In Christ,
Mark Vander Tuig
LCMC Service Coordinator
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Mark Vander Tuig doesn’t sit still for very long, needs coffee, loves humor, and is passionate about Jesus. He is a resource to congregational leaders, pastors, and anyone else who calls; hoping to help them to catch the vision of the Great Commission. Growing up, Mark was expelled from his youth group and decided then that there had to be a better way to do “church”. For the future, he would like to see the people of LCMC strengthen the churches we have and plant the ones we don’t.
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