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Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is mission-centered congregation. That means we make central to our faith the calling to be "God's Hands" in the world.
We seek to find mission opportunities that make use of our talents as individual members of the congregation and as a congregation together. We seek to find mission opportunities in our local community, in region and country, and internationally.
We encourage the special mission interests of our members. And we commit ourselves as a congregation to particular mission projects. We support and engage in mission projects sponsored by a wide range of organizations, including our national church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Recent Mission Activities
- Pine Ridge Reservation. (South Dakota) Gloria Dei members have traveled to Pine Ridge many times, most recently in 2007 to build and deliver home furnishings, working with the organization, Remember.
- Members traveled to Louisana and Mississipi after Hurricane Katrina in 2008.
- Members traveled to Iowa, Minnesota, and North Dakota, along with a group from our synod, to assist with clean-up and rebuilding after floods in 2009.
- Three Gloria Dei members traveled to Sibui, Romania, in 2010 to assist Pastor Joel and Susan Schlachtenhaufer in their ministry to the Lutheran community in Transalvania. They helped refurbish a former church building into a community center for environmental education.
Upcoming Mission Opportunities
- With recent tornado destruction in Mississippi, there will be opportunities to help them rebuild
- There are several groups from the area going to Haiti to help with the recovery
- Habitat for Humanity is building 13 new homes in the Fox Valley this year. They welcome all skill levels and will provide needed training.
- There will probably be an opporunity to help with environmental clean-up as a result of the oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Rev. Steven Ray is heading up an organization that coordinates teaching of English for teachers and nurses in China.
- Spring flooding in the Midwest again creats opportunities to help neighbors nearer to home.
- Gloria Dei young people are traveling to South Dakota to work with Native Americans.
If you have an interest in a particular mission interest, please contact Bryan Engstrom at bengstrom(a)new.rr.com or 722-7582.
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