July 2009

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ

Returning from LWML Convention, Portland 2009

The women of the LWML have just returned from our national convention in Portland, Oregon.  Over 3,200 women and men gathered together to do the business of our organization.  A new mission goal of $1,825,000 was set by the voting body.  Seventy percent of this amount will go toward the mssion projects selected.  You can view these projects at the LWML site.  We will post them here soon.

I am pleased that over 200 women and men from our CNH distirct attended the convention.  I had a chance to meet up with many of them and they all seemed to be soaking it all in, busy with worship, servant events, pledge walks, fellowship, and even a little "shopping".  God is good!

Our young women representatives to the convention, Annie Bosel and Mary Gunishaw, did an awesome job of representing our California-Nevada-Hawaii LWML.  They were kept very busy by the Leader Development Committee and by your president.  I thank both of them for attending on our behalf and I know that they have much to tell us about their experience.  You will be hearing from these young leaders in the near future.  What a blessing our Committee on Young Women have become.  Look for great things to come from these women in our district.

A very big thank you to our counselor, Rev. Norm Milz, who attended the convention as counselor to the CNH LWML delegation.  He too was awesome in his service to the women of the LWML. 

All of our favorite people and more were in Portland - Jan Wendorf, of course, our national president, was on hand to bring us the reminder to be Women of the Word, Women in the Word, Women Walking with Jesus.  This continues to be Jan's wish for us.  We will hear more about this in the future.

We saw and visited with Jan Struck our presenter from our 2008 Bakersfield Convention.  Jan will be with us at our Women's Conference in Sacramento on November 7, 2009.  Registration form is now available on our website.  Do not miss this opporunity to fellowship with the women of the CNH LWML and to hear the "life message" that Jan will bring to us.

Also on hand in Portland was Dina Vendetti as music director.  Dina will join us next year in San Jose at our CNH LWML Convention as our music director and our choir director.  What a joy it will to be with her again.

And I am pleased that Peggy Turnipseed will indeed be able to join us as our Inspirational speaker in San Jose in 2010.  Peggy is from Texas, has a wonderful smile, a twinkle in her eye, and a heart almost as big as Texas.  She brings a special joy to me every time I am with her.  I know that she has a message for you all.

As LWML'ers, we remain Women in Mission in our congregations, societies, zones, and district serving Him every day spreading the Word with Love throughout our district, our nation, and the world.  Personally, I have never been so busy! I pray this is so for you also.  God expects us to be at work every day, even when in the "vacation" mode, in the Word, spreading the Good News!

GOAL 2008 - 2010

Our goal this biennium is to raise up new and renewed societies all around our California-Nevada-Hawaii District.  Can you just see a society in every church?  Halleluia, is that not an awsome vision. Should Lutheran women not all be in mission?  And in the Word, Walking with Jesus as examples to all? How can you help?  Keep your sisters in prayer, invite the women in your congregations to join us in our mission, speak well of the work of the LWML and lift up the leaders of our organization daily, and participate when ever and where ever you can.   Please partner with us in this effort.

LWML NEWS:

LWML Mite Update

We are still working on Grant #11 for $10,000 for the Hispanic Ministries at Good Shephered Lutheran Church in Hayward.  We will know soon if we have met our goal of funding this project.  Do not miss sending in your donations this summer.  We as His servants to not take the summer off!

I was pleased to present Grant #10 in the amount of $5,500 to St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Rocklin (formerly located in Roseville).    This grant will be used for outreach into the community.

Please see our list of grants below my message for those projects yet to be funded. 

As the economy tightens, remember to put a little extra in your Mite Box.   And send your mites in every month!

The Quarterly

New Quarterly, new opportunity to minister to the women in our congregatiosn and beyond.  What an awsome gift this magazine is for all women.  See that all women in your congregation get a copy.  Up your subscription quantity today.

Quarterly subscription money is past due.   Notices have been going out.   When subscriptions are not paid by the local society, the money for the society's subscription is paid out of Mites. In the future, unpaid subscriptions will be cancelled.  Do not let your subscription be cancelled: remit today; call Karen about any difficutlties or hardships.  Every single nickel or dime that goes to pay for society subscriptions from our Mites, is money that does not go into the mission field.  Let's get this changed today!

CNH LWML District Retreat September 18-20, 2009 Santa Cruz, CA

Registration Package available on the website and in the spring newsletter.  Our Vice President of Christian Life, Barbara Carr, and her committee are working to bring you a wonderful retreat.  

Women's Conference 2009, Region II - Zones 4, 6, 19, Jan Struck Brings us "Be Joyful in Hope" November 7, 2009

Registration form now on our website and in the next Joyful Servant.  CNH LWML is holding this third Women's Conference in Sacramento, CA, at Town & Country Lutheran Church (Zone 4).  Our wonderful inspirational speaker and humorist, Jan Struck, is returning to California as our presenter.   Come join us!

2010 CNH LWML Convention - "Know the Hope - Jesus Christ" - April 30 - May 2, 2010

Our convention is being held in Region III, at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, CA.   We pray for our convention chairmen and all committee members who are working on this convention.  Look for monthly convention updates -  We are looking for many volunteers from Region III for this event (Zones 1, 2, 7, 8, 17, 18).  Your convention chairmen, Linda Bradley and Marcia Houseworth, will are asking you to join "our team

July Convention Update - Peggy Turnipseed will attend our convention as our Inspirational Speaker.  We now have all of our main presenters:  Rev. Ken Klaus of The Lutheran Hour - Bible Study Leader and more; Dina Vendetti, Music Director and Choir Director; and Peggy Turnipseed, Inspirational Speaker.  Please keep them in your prayers during the next few months.  Yes, I did say few, Convention 2010 will be here before we know it - 10 months and counting!

Remember you can hear Pastor Klaus on the radio each week and online every day with LHM Daily Devotions.  Sign up today.  Stay in the Word!

Remember to invite a friend or two to share Jesus with you through the LWML.    What a wonderful opportunity to celebrate God's many gifts and to share the Hope!

"KNOW THE HOPE - JESUS CHRIST!"   Going, Serving, Telling -  We Go, Serve, and Tell Everyone We Meet of the Hope - Jesus Christ!      

May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace- Rom 15:13

 Blessings  -   Sandra "Sandy" Haugner, President, CNH LWML

"Let's Pray, Plan, and Expect God's Best!" 

"Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!"  Ps 46:10

• CNH LWML Regional Event, Region V, Zone 10, Fall Retreat - September 11-13, 2009, Cowboy's Rest, Jiggs, Nevada (So. of Elko) Registration on our Website this month. Specail presenters: President Sandy and YWR, Mary Gunishaw
• CNH LWML District Retreat - September 18-20. 2009, Santa Cruz, CA - Registration packet on Website.
• CNH LWML Regional Event, Region II, Zones 4, 6, 19, Women's Conference, "Be Joyful in Hope", November 7, 2009, Town & Country Lutheran Church, Sacramento, CA - Jan Struck Presenting! - See poster on website -
CNH LWML 2009 Workshop/Brain Storming Event for all Young Women - November 7, 2009 following the Women's Conference in Sacramento.  A time of brain storming and planning for all Young Women.
• CNH LWML Regional Event, Region VI, Zone 11, Winter Retreat, January 22-24, 2010, Honolulu, HI - See poster on Website.  Special presenters:  President Sandy and CNH LWML Counselor, Rev Herb Burch
• CNH LWML 2010 Convention, "Know the Hope - Jesus Christ" - April 30-May 2, 2010, Hosted by Region III, Zones 1, 2, 7, 8, 17, 18 - Wyndham Hotel, San Jose, CA - Poster with convention logo this month.
• CNH LWML Regional Event, Region IV, Zone 3, 5, 9, 15, 16, Fall 2010 - In the "Idea" stage. Planning Starting!
• CNH LWML District Retreat 2011,  Living Waters Retreat Center, Chico, CA
  

MEETING DATES FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
ZONE PRESIDENTS, STANDING COMMITTEES:

February 19, 20, 2010 - CNH LWML EC Meeting & Board of Directors Meeting, Ministry Center, Livermore, CA

April 29, 2010 - CNH LWML EC Meeting, 2010 Convention Site, Wyndham Hotel, San Jose, CA

**September 2010 - EC & Standing Committees Planning Meetings - Dates and place to be determined. 

*Dates and/or location changes

**There is no planning meeting scheduled for 2009.  Now that we are on a biennium schedule, Executive Committee and Standing Committees meet in planning session once every two years.

                          CNH MISSION GRANT PROJECTS / MITE PROJECTS

MITE PROJECT REPORT - Updates by Ada Towers, VP Gospel Outreach

Send your mites every month!  Watch what they can do! 

Put them to work today in His Kingdom!

Mission Grant Report Update:  7/01/09

Our Mission Goal for 2008-2010 is $231,680. Our Mission Grant Goal is $115,840 (50% of Mission Goal).  Twenty five percent of our Mission Goal is sent to national LWML to fund LWML Grant Projects accepted at the LWML Convention in 2009 in Portland.

CNH LWML Grant Projects Paid and/or Funded to date ( 3/31/2009):  $69,340

Remember to send your mites in each month!  Don't wait.  All mites for 2008 - 2010 must be received by the Financial Secretary by March 31, 2010 to be counted toward this biennium.

NEW GRANT PROJECTS 2008-2010

Mite Project No. 1 - PAID - $6,000   - Youth Center Outreach, Zion Lutheran Church, Winnemucca, Nevada 

Mite Project No. 2 - PAID - $15,000 - Communication Education & Outreach, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Ely, Nevada

Mite Project No. 3 - PAID - $5,000 - Mail Media Outreach, Jackson Lutheran Mission, Jackson, CA 

Mite Project No. 4 - PAID - $2,340 - Christian Children's Books, First Lutheran Church, Hanford, CA

Mite Project No. 5 - PAID - $4,500 - Lutheran Blind Missions Scholarships, St. Louis, Missouri

Mite Project No. 6 - PAID - $5,500 - Morning Star Club and Mentoring Program for Native American Girls, Lamp US, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Mite Project No. 7 - PAID- $10,000 - Acts in Mission Society, St. John Lutheran Church, Bakersfield, CA -

Mite Project No. 8 - PAID - $8,000 -  Faith Family Center, Faith Lutheran Church, Yerington, Nevada 

Mite Project No. 9 - PAID- $7,500 Our Savior Lutheran Asian Ministries, Our Savior Lutheran Church, Fremont, CA

Mite Project No. 10 - PAID - $5,500 Focus on Families, St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Rocklin (formerly Roseville), CA 

Mite Project No. 11 -  Next project:  Hispanic Church Plant, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Hayward, CA - $10,000.00 

Mite Project No. 12 - Our Savior Lutheran School, Our Savior Lutheran Church, Salinas, CA - $14,000.00

Mite Project No. 13 - Missionary Lay Training Center, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Tracy, CA - $10,000.00

Mite Project No. 14 - Hindu Outreach & Church Planting, North Central India, People of the Book Lutheran Outreach, Dearborn Heights, MI - $7,500.00

Mite Project No. 15 - Jewish Outreach Scholarships, Apple of His Eye, Fenton, Missouri - $5,000.00

Mission Grant Posters 2008-2010 are now available!

See -- Young Women page
See -- Zone Activities page
REMINDER -- Use the Remittance Form to submit your mites, prorates, Steinbeck, Rubin, and Quarterly subscription payment to the district. [Form is on the Resources and Forms page.]