MISSIONS - GLOBAL
Learn about the DHLC GLobal Mission ministry by visiting our
"Global Mission Wall" at the north entrance to the fellowship hall.
A child dies from malaria every 45 seconds.
We can now eliminate deaths from this disease for good!
HOW?
To learn more, go to:
elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Responding-to-the-World/ELCA-Malaria-Campaign. aspx
Short-Term Mission Leaders Conference
January 26-28, 2012
Casas Church, 10801 N. La Cholla, Tucson, AZ
For more information and to register, go to www.NSTMC.com
February 11 and 12, 2012
Special Speaker at all four services
and luncheon follows the 11:00 am Service on Sunday
Marina Nemat, speaker and author of Prisoner of Tehran*
Desert Hills Lutheran Church
Sunday April 15,2012
Luncheon following 11:00 am Service in Fellowship Hall
*Also wrote After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed
An Opportunity for you to Make a Difference*
What: Habitat For Humanity
When: March 24- April 1, 2012
Where: Oaxaca, Mexico
*Specific information is coming soon; you may also check the website below.
http://www.habitat.org/cd/gv/participant/participant.aspx?pid=93084601
FAIR TRADE COFFEE -
DHLC is proud of its role in working with Lutheran World Relief to help expand the market for fairly traded coffee and cocoa beans so farm families who grow the crops can be fairly compensated for their work and support their families. At times demand outstrips supply. This increasing demand worldwide, coupled with speculators moving their money from stocks and banking to commodities, is currently causing higher prices.
Global Missions Mission Statement
In keeping with the DHLC goals of "celebrating grace, making disciples, and making a difference", our Global Missions is focused on the way our congregation and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America responds to God's call to serve and to send beyond the United States. "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Matthew 28:19-20.
We pledge to educate the congregation on programs available through the ELCA Global Missions. We will accomplish this by: monthly article in Quail notes; weekly bulletin blurbs of "Did you know?"; maintain a bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall with timely photos and articles; promote an annual in-house event to raise awareness; have monthly sales of Fair Trade coffee, tea, and chocolate; advertise the ELCA Global Mission web site; keep the DHLC Global Mission web site current; promote Rally in the Valley (Phoenix area) and National Global gatherings; encourage congregational members with a passion for global missions to join the Global Missions Team; organize and promote "immersion trips" to areas we support for hands on field experience; Make a Difference!
We pledge to be a liaison for ELCA World Hunger Appeals by our prayers and giving; being advocates for all peoples in disaster and need; supporting Fair Trade Coffee and other grass roots groups; supporting Lutheran World Relief projects and Alternate Giving; Making a Difference!
We pledge to a sister Lutheran congregation south of our border where we can pray for, encourage and provide a financial stipend for pastor or lay minister; pray for and encourage the congregation; provide financial support for specific needs; act as liaison between church-wide and Mexican congregation; organize trips to help offer assistance for immediate needs; consider offering a VBS program, involving the youth of DHLC, for Mexican children; offer classes on hygiene and provide supplies; Make a Difference!
We pledge to be financially responsible with our annual budget and funds raised with special projects by continuing to support our companion synods in Senegal and Lithuania; supporting the Grow-Hanson family (Simon, Elijah, Sarah and Peter) serving as missionaries in Senegal and providing them with encouragement in the form of prayers, letters, cards, etc.; listening to, evaluating and activing accordingly to special requests in the Global Mission field presented by DHLC congregational members; fully dispersing all our funds prior to the end of the fiscal year; Making a Difference!
You can learn more about our ministry partnerships by clicking on the highlighted ministry name to visit their web sites.