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Cambridge Food Pantry News
 With
the holiday season just around the corner, it’s a good time to remember our
local friends that may not be able to enjoy a holiday meal. The Cambridge
Food Pantry is sponsoring the Turkey Basket-Adopt a Turkey program for
Thanksgiving. For $25.00 you can sponsor a basket containing a 12-15 lb.
turkey, fresh potatoes, celery, onion, squash, apples and oranges, canned
cranberry sauce, jar of gravy, a box of stuffing mix and a pie. I have
committed our church to adopting 20 turkeys. I would love to ‘run out of
turkeys’ and be able to request at least 10 more from the coordinator of the
pantry! The last date to sponsor a turkey will be Sunday, November 6. Please
consider helping if you are able. I will be in church each Sunday and
collect the envelopes for return to the Food Pantry. Please contact me with
questions. Barb Klemp – 608-423-4392.
Missionaries
John & Amy Lindstrom
Missionary Visit: John & Amy Lindstrom
Share Good News At East Koshkonong
December 4, 2011, at 9:00 A.M. service
Come and hear what God has been doing through your prayers and financial
partnership with the Malei people. The Malei people first heard the Good
News through German Lutheran missionaries in the 1940s. Large numbers of
Malei people responded and Lutheran churches now meet in every Malei
village. The Good News came to them in the Jabem language and since then
Malei people have been waiting to have God's Word in their own language. On
December 4, 2011 come celebrate the dedication of their New Testament which
took place last December. East Koshkonong Lutheran Church has been partners
with John and Amy Lindstrom since they first went to Papua New Guinea in
1991. John and Amy worked with Malei believers to enable them to translate
God's Word into their own language. While helping Malei people learn to use
their New Testaments, John and Amy have also begun work in two languages
related to Malei and hope to see translations started in additional
languages. John and Amy are currently on home assignment in Minnesota until
they return to Papua New Guinea in June 2012.
Letter from John & Amy Lindstrom
Dear Friends of East Koshkonong Lutheran Church,
Praise the Lord with us that in December 2010 the Malei New Testament was
dedicated in Yemli village, Papua New Guinea. There were international
guests and nearly 1,000 Malei people at the dedication. It was a great time
of celebration and thanksgiving.Thank you so much for your faithful
partnership and encouragement that allowed this great blessing to come to
the Malei people. Malei people can now hear and read God’s Word in their own
language. And we have seen God at work among the Malei people through His
Word in exciting ways.
Elisa, the Malei translator, is happy that now Malei
teachers and preachers can use God’s Word in Malei when they teach. He is
also working to encourage Malei people throughout the language group to use
this new treasure that is available to them for the first time. And since he
knows what a blessing it is for the Malei people to have God’s Word in their
language, he has now begun working as a facilitator for the neighboring
language group of Yamap so that they too can have God’s Word in their
language also.
We are currently on home assignment and located in
Burnsville, Minnesota until we return to Papua New Guinea in June 2012.
We are available to visit with and encourage you by
reporting what God has been doing through your prayers and financial
partnership among the Malei people. We would be glad to share in any context
that works best for you.
Please feel free to contact us at the above address or phone number.
In Him,
John and Amy Lindstrom
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ELCA World Hunger:
Clean Water Projects
Did you know?
Over 1 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking
water. Approximately one-third of deaths in the world are caused by
contaminated water.
Life-giving water projects funded by ELCA World Hunger repair
and build wells and water catchment systems. With each working
well, 500 families gain access to safe, clean drinking water-
meeting a basic need and ensuring a healthier future.
How can you help?
$12 provides six water jugs for transporting clean water. $150
offers a hand water pump. $1250 constructs a community rainwater
catchment system. $2500 digs and installs a well. How will you
help? Give to ELCA World Hunger to make a lasting difference
in the lives of many!
Click for ELCA World Hunger online.
Global Links
Connect to the global church through
elca.org
Refugee Family Co-Sponsorship
East Koshkonong Lutheran
Church is co-sponsoring a Bhutanese family in Madison that arrived March
11. We welcome Chhabi Lal Dangal (male, age 33), Phul maya Dangal (female,
age 31), Bhanu bakta Dangal (male, age 10, Babita Dangal (female, age 6),
and Rabita Dangal (female, age 3).
Good Samaritan Fund
As people in our congregation and community continue to suffer the impact of
our recent recession, our congregation has a unique opportunity to care for
its neighbors. If you are in need of assistance because of a recent job loss
or other financial struggles, please know that you can apply to the EKLC
Good Samaritan Fund for financial assistance. If you are a family who would
like to help out people who are struggling, but you haven't quite figured
out how, consider making a gift to the Good Samaritan Fund. You will know
that the money is being used to help people buy food and gas, cover housing
expenses, or bring relief from high medical bills and other expenses.
The
Good Samaritan Fund is currently very low on funds. We invite regular and
substantial gifts to the fund in order to continue to care for our neighbors
in need.
Potatoes for the Pantry
Members of East Koshkonong Lutheran Church teamed together to raise funds to
purchase potatoes and cranberries for the Thanksgiving Baskets that the
Cambridge Food Pantry.
Click
here to read more.
Thrivent Members
Consider directing your Thrivent Choice dollars for East
Koshkonong ministries, or ministries EKLC supports, such as Lutheran World
Relief. To direct your choice dollars call 800-847-4836 or visit www.thrivent.com/thriventchoice/.
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