LWML Grants Paid to Date. The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) presented a check totaling $245,482 to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) World Mission for final payment on three mission grants for the 2009-2011 biennium. To date, all mission grant recipients for the 2009-2011 biennium that have requested money have been paid. The grants paid in full include:
- Ten Chapels, Transportation, and Pastoral Training in Tanzania – $63,000. This grant will be used to purchase materials for ten chapel roofs, motorcycles for pastors, and bicycles for evangelists; and to prepare five men for pastoral ministry in Tanzania.
- Earthquake Relief Aid and Church Plants in Peru – $100,000. This grant will enable LCMS World Mission to reach out with God’s love through humanitarian aid and church planting in the forgotten, earthquake-ridden part of Peru.
- Humanitarian Aid Opens Mission Field in North Korea – $82,482. The grant will be used to begin new mission work in North Korea, so that LCMS missionaries can share the love of Christ, both physically and spiritually, with thousands of North Koreans.
LWML President Janice Wendorf expressed gratitude to Lutheran Women in Mission who have funded the grants through their mite donations. "Even in these challenging economic times, LWML women have joined together and by the grace of God have been able to fund these three mission grants. God will surely use these gifts to further His kingdom throughout the world."