Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute

TRAINING WORKERS TO MULTIPLY HEALTHY HISPANIC MINISTRIES

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Issue: # 24

March 2012

Top Ten Lists!
Our mutual commitment to mission!
 

TEN THINGS WE CAN DO FOR YOU!

10. Our website contains lessons in Spanish you can download.

  9. Our website contains Worship Services for special occasions you can downoad.

  8. OUr website contains Worship Services in Spanish following the current Series B.

  7. Our website contains a manual for starting Hispanic Missions in your church.

  6. One of our classes is in English and is called Hispanic Mission Basics.

  5. Our classes allow our students to enroll at the Center for Hispanic Studies for Level 2.

  4. Our classes allow a student to complete Level 1 at the Center for Hispanic Studies.

  3. Our classes can be taken real-time worldwide over the Internet.

  2. Our classes can be taken in a residential study program in El Paso, TX.

  1. We can pray for you, submit your request online with link at the bottom of this page.

 

TEN THINGS YOU CAN DO FOR US!

10. You can lobby your Districts, Synod, LWML Chapters, and the LLL for grants to support our Institute.

  9. You can support us Individually, go to our website to send a donation.

  8. You can ask your Missions Committee to add the Institute to your monthly budget.

  7. You can tell your friends and colleagues about our ministry and resources.

  6. You can ask us to consult with you to start Hispanic Missions in your area.

  5. You can take our class on Hispanic Missions Basics to learn more about Hispanic ministry.

  4. You can sponsor group Internet classes in your church.

   3. You can recruit your Hispanic friends and congregants to be students at the Institute.

  2. You can pray for the success of the Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute.

  1. You can pray with us that the Lord of the Harvest woud send Labourers into His fields!

Matching Funds Challenge - $6,150.00!

The Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute has received many requests to make its courses available in a self-study, internet based, format, in English as well as in Spanish. Until now, funds have not been available to create this online coursework.

 

The Board of Directors for LHMI, at their November meeting, received a very generous offer of gifts for this purpose. Working together, the Board of Directors have established a matching gifts challenge of $6,150.00.

 

If you will help us match this challenge, $12,300.00 will be available to produce the lessons. The first class to go self-study online will be in English and will be our newest class offering, "Hispanic Mission Basics". This class presents ideas, methods, and models for Hispanic ministry for churches and individuals wanting to share the Gospel with Spanish-speaking people.

 

Please help us reach this matching gifts goal. Gifts may be mailed to the Institute or given online through our website. Funds identified for this purpose will be placed in a temporarily restricted fund and used as the classes are produced and distributed.

 

Thanks, Paige

Let us Pray with You!

LHMI Prayer Initiative ...

 

The Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institue has launched a Prayer Initiative. This unique opportunity allows you to post a Prayer, a Prayer Request or Praise. We will pray for your concerns.

You will also have the opportunity to join our Prayer Team. If you do so, you will received a simple email informing you of new information on the website.

To participate in this Prayer Initiative, please go to our Prayer Website by clicking on the following link:

LHMI Prayer Website

 

 
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Grant Opportunity

LHMI has received a Grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation. This Grant allows LHMI to take you and some of your friends to dinner to talk about Spanish Outreach. For more information contact R. Paige Mathews, Director of Development.


 

303.378.5363

pmathews@missionaryinstitute.org

Thrivent Choice Dollars Deadline!

 
     Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has now introduced Choice Dollars as a part of their new Thrivent Choice Program that lets members help determine how Thrivent Financial distributes its charitable funds.
     If you are a Thrivent Member, you should have received a letter from Thrivent indicating how to pick the organization you want to receive your Choice Dollars. LHMI is a qualifying organization for these funds. For more information go to Thrivent Choice.
     The deadline for directing your 2011 Choice Dollars is March 31, 2012!

 

For additional information regarding the contents of this newsletter and/or the work of the Institute, please feel free to contact me:

Sincerely,
R Paige Mathews, Director of Development
915.790.2300