To play the audio, just click the play button above at left. To download, click the "Light in the Darkness" title in yellow in the box above, which will take you to a site where you can down load it as an mp3 file. If you see no image above or the audio will not play, click here for audio.
When disaster strikes our brothers and sisters across the world, how can we respond?
When we seek to create sustainable development and relief from hunger and cycles of poverty, how can we unite to do this?
The answer is Lutheran World Relief. LWR is the way we at Muhlenberg are connected with other Lutherans around the world in making God's promises of abundant life real. This happens in tangible ways - in responding to disaster, in sustainable development, education, quilts, health kits, and other tangible support.
Listen in to this week's podcast, featuring a very special guest, Kristin Vought, program associate for external relations at LWR. She shares an overview of the ways LWR shines light and good news all over the world, and also a couple powerful personal stories of people's lives transformed! We were so glad to have Kristin join us - she was glad to bring her greetings to Muhlenberg, and remembers you all fondly as home!
Thank you for the ways you, as Muhlenberg, joining with so many others, have responded in love. An example is the recent response of Muhlenberg through LWR to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Our local emphasis this week is a little-known way we are able to provide critical relief for members of our congregation - the pastors' discretionary fund. Check out this week's Chimes newsletter for more!
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
People Helping People & the Malaria Project - A Light in the Darkness
To play the audio, just click the play button above at left. To download, click the "Light in the Darkness" title in yellow in the box above, which will take you to a site where you can down load it as an mp3 file. If you see no image above or the audio will not play, click here for audio.
Give a listen to this week's inspiring conversation, in which Jackie Wells, director of People Helping People, tells us about their ministry. She introduces us to some of our neighbors, not by name but by their situations - folks who we may not think of - but are in need right in our community.
Did you know that People Helping People helps with everything from water bills to referrals for other types of support to little but such important things as IDs and eyeglasses? Did you know that People Helping People has received about 200 people per month on average who are seeking help and listened to each one's story with care and compassion? Did you know that PHP is entirely volunteer? People Helping People does all this from a small office space right here at Muhlenberg's MAC, every Monday through Thursday, 9-11:30. Click here to check out their website and learn more - including how to help!
The other ministry we're lifting up this week is the ELCA Malaria Project. While it may seem at first that these have little in common, as the Malaria Project is working to eradicate malaria in Africa through education, community resourcing, and direct support through medicine, mosquito nets, and medical support. But these two have something in common - a ministry that seeks to provide basic health needs - People Helping People provides help with prescriptions, clinic memberships, and transportation to doctors' visits.
Here at Muhlenberg, we've supported the Malaria Campaign through the work of the social ministry team - you remember campaigns and meals to raise money for mosquito nets! Check out this brief video below, "60 Seconds" - Malaria is completely preventable and treatable - we can make a difference here! See this amazing short video below about the difference ELCA Malaria Campaign is making on the ground.
Give a listen to this week's inspiring conversation, in which Jackie Wells, director of People Helping People, tells us about their ministry. She introduces us to some of our neighbors, not by name but by their situations - folks who we may not think of - but are in need right in our community.
Did you know that People Helping People helps with everything from water bills to referrals for other types of support to little but such important things as IDs and eyeglasses? Did you know that People Helping People has received about 200 people per month on average who are seeking help and listened to each one's story with care and compassion? Did you know that PHP is entirely volunteer? People Helping People does all this from a small office space right here at Muhlenberg's MAC, every Monday through Thursday, 9-11:30. Click here to check out their website and learn more - including how to help!
The other ministry we're lifting up this week is the ELCA Malaria Project. While it may seem at first that these have little in common, as the Malaria Project is working to eradicate malaria in Africa through education, community resourcing, and direct support through medicine, mosquito nets, and medical support. But these two have something in common - a ministry that seeks to provide basic health needs - People Helping People provides help with prescriptions, clinic memberships, and transportation to doctors' visits.
Here at Muhlenberg, we've supported the Malaria Campaign through the work of the social ministry team - you remember campaigns and meals to raise money for mosquito nets! Check out this brief video below, "60 Seconds" - Malaria is completely preventable and treatable - we can make a difference here! See this amazing short video below about the difference ELCA Malaria Campaign is making on the ground.
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