Nice cool breeze this morning, and it reminded me that Fall is here. One reminder was the LWML Fall Rally here at our church. What a wonderful organization, this Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. Its beginnings came when some folks got together and asked, “What can we do?” Their answer was partly to do the work at home, in their own churches and places, and then they invented the Mite box. This was to raise funds for more work.
I can remember seeing these boxes on kitchen window sills where the ladies placed mites, pennies, nickels, dimes saved and scrounged out of budgets already pretty bare. These mites grew into a mighty stream, and that is being used today for all kinds of mission effort. A mission starts somewhere, often the LWML steps in to buy needed furnishings for the altar and for the church, hymnals, prayer books, devotional materials. The list goes on, heartening to hear about, and blessed of God.
The fellowship you find in such rallies is heartwarming. Women from different churches and encouraging one another in their different places. Praying for, encouraging, a struggling mission in many parts of this globe. Supporting their Church in ways often not even noticed. Yet ever blessed by God.
The Rally was well attended, and ended with a bit of luncheon. And just as this neared its end and women were starting to leave, it rained. A nice, sunny, warm Fall day, and then it rained, but it doesn’t last, so a five minute wait was all that was needed. And ladies left to go home, encouraged and strengthened to the work. And that is part of what makes the work of God grow, isn’t it, under God’s blessing and direction.
And for me, the interesting thing is that the international President of this LWML is a lady from Grafton, Wisconsin, just some 10 miles from the Church I grew up in. Well, lots of good things come from Wisconsin.
GPD 10/8/07
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