Shepherd of the Valley supports a number of ministry programs each year through our budgeted benevolence program. These partners are working to further a mission and values that align with our church's.

 

We've been sharing the feedback we've recently received from a few of these amazing partners.

   

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Malaria Campaign

 

Dear Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church,  

    

Thank you for your gift to ELCA Malaria Campaign. Your faithful generosity makes a life-saving difference. Your gift is greatly appreciated.  

 

In 13 African nations, gifts like yours make it possible for malaria education programs to teach neighbors how to recognize and prevent malaria, and to seek diagnosis and treatment if the symptoms appear. In Zimbabwe, one man tells how his pastor brings the malaria educators to speak to the congregation regularly, and "everybody now knows the symptoms of malaria" and will go to the village health worker right away if symptoms appear. "It's much better now," he says, over and over again. Your support helped make it possible.

 

To neighbors yearning to be free of this preventable and treatable disease, gifts like yours bring not only help but also hope. Thank you. Your gift brings us another step closer to making malaria history.

 

As the ELCA, we do more together than any one of us could ever do alone. We are a church that believes God is calling us into the world - together. Thank you for your support.