Mission Catalog 2011-2012

Welcome to the second edition of the St. Luke’s Mission Catalog! This catalog is designed to give you an overall picture of what the mission of St. Luke’s is outside our walls. Within these pages, you will learn more about 10 for the World, community and global partnerships, mission teams and missionaries. Our hope is that we as a community, and even as individuals, might further pursue partnership with the agencies and people we support.

We strongly believe that each one of us is a member and a missionary, and that we each have a unique calling from God. Our prayer is that you are inspired to pursue a life lived in love and to be a light in the world. There are many ways to begin that pursuit in this catalog or you can check out the L-Team Lineup online at www.stlukes-church.com.

There are organizations we support through our congregational tithe, 10 for the World. Jaye Zern, Director of Missions and Lead Pastor Chris Davis work with an advisory team to support 10 for the World which is the distribution of ten percent of the church’s total received offerings annually. The money is distributed roughly in the following categories: denominational giving, global faith building, global humanitarian work, local faith building and local humanitarian work.

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. I Peter 4:10-11

10 for the World

The word "Synod" in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod comes from the Greek words that mean "walking together."

The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod unites congregations to vigorously make known

the love of Christ by word and deed within our churches, communities,

and the world. The three tenets of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod are sola scriptura (God reveals Himself through His Word), sola gratia (we are saved completely

by grace alone) and sola fida (grace is not by our actions but received by faith).

Check us out: www.lcms.org

financial commitment: $50,000

Lutheran Braille Workers (LBW) is one of the largest providers of Christian Braille and specialized Large Print in the world. All publications by LBW are offered without charge and are made possible through the efforts of thousands of faithful volunteers. These volunteers, located in about 200 Work Centers throughout the United States and Canada, including right here at St. Luke’s, produce more than 250,000 volumes of material each year. Gifts of time and generous donations make it possible to send Christian material in more than 30 languages to visually impaired people in more than 120 countries.

Check us out: www.lbwinc.org


step up!Volunteer your time at the St. Luke’s Work Center. Contact Harry Roth at [email protected].

step up!Learn more about leadership at http://www.plinstitute.org/blog/. Pray for the training and development of pastors around the world.

The Pastoral Leadership Institute is a unique continuing education experience for pastors in The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Through a process of mentoring and networking, less experienced pastors learn from more experienced church leaders in congregational settings. In this four year learning experience, PLI pastors acquire advanced knowledge skills to lead and administer their congregations in ministry growth and outreach to their members and their communities.

Check us out: www.plinstitute.org

financial commitment: $7,000step up!Volunteer your time to meet and greet seafarers in the center or drive seafarers to a shopping center. Fill up a Christmas box with toiletry items, gum, socks, etc. Contact the Seafarer’s Center at 253-272-0716

The Tacoma Seafarers Center is a Christian non-profit organization serving seafarers who call in the port of Tacoma. We minister to seafarers’ spiritual, physical and

emotional needs. Our ministry spreads the saving gospel of Jesus Christ globally and our mission includes networking with other seafarer ministries to plant churches on ships.

www.tacomaseafarers.org

financial commitment: $250

Faith BuildingLutheran Braille WorkersLutheran Church Missouri Synod

Pastoral Leadership Institute

Tacoma Seafarer's Center

The story of Roger and Isha Hulsford in Bolivia began in 1990. The two of them began by encouraging

whoever they could to come out on the streets, reaching out to the street teenagers of the city of Santa Cruz. They began to gain the children's trust by giving them a view to see themselves come off the streets and

undergo a complete restoration in their lives, thereby assisting them to reintegrate into the society that had rejected them.Today, there is a staff of 21 that serves in the following areas: street work, a drop in center, medical post and a restoration home for boys one one for girls.


step up!Check out Roger & Isha Hulsford’s website at h t t p : / / w w w. y w a m c o n n e c t . c o m / s i t e s /hulfordsbolivia for updates, ways to give and prayer requests.

step up!Subscribe to the LBT Monthly Prayer Calendar, or consider becoming a missionary! Contact James Pindras at [email protected]

There are more than 6900 different languages spoken in the world. More than 4500 of these languages (66%) have no portion of Scripture translated. Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT) is an independent Lutheran mission organization dedicated to helping bring people to faith in Jesus Christ through missionaries and staff, who work to make the Word of God available to those who do not yet have it in the language of their hearts.

Check us out: www.lbt.org


step up!Pray that God would allow the Wukasches to continue this ministry and that those they come into contact with would see the love of Jesus in the work they do; collect vitamins, medicines, and eye glasses to send with Dave and Debbie on projects or serve on a project. Contact them at [email protected].

step up!Prayers of thanksgiving for the work done in Israel and the Congo and for the peace of all those who live in conflict. Pray for her time of learning back in the United States and raising prayer and financial support. Check out Kate’s website to follow her work and to financially support her.

Dr. Dave and Debbie Wukasch have been members at St. Luke’s for thirty years and both work in the medical field.

They make it a priority to serve with Medical Ministries International in caring for those less fortunate. They also serve with Medical Teams International in disaster relief situations. They have traveled all over

the world to provide care and show God’s love through medical ministry.

www.medicalteams.org and www.mmint.org


Kate Roberts is a member of St. Luke’s and former staff member. She obediently followed God’s call to serve long term in the mission field with YWAM – Youth With A Mission. Currently serving in Lausanne, Switzerland, Kate is pursuing biblical counseling training and has recently done outreach work in Israel and the Congo. Kate will be returning to the Seattle area and St. Luke’s during the winter months for additional training.

Check out Kate’s webpage: http://www.ywamconnect.com/sites/kateroberts


YWAM, Bolivia

Lutheran Bible Translators David & Debbie Wukasch, Missionaries

Kate Roberts, Missionary

step up!Pray that God would open the hearts and minds of the people in Macau and that her own heart and mind would be able to discern God’s direction as she serves. Pray for Serena and Elliot as they begin their new life together as husband and wife. Give to support Serena and Elliot’s work at their website.

step up!Check out how to get involved in our partnership in Swaziland (under Other Partners), participate in 30 Hour Famine, tour the visitor’s center at the US Headquarters right here in Federal Way.

Elliot and Serena (Little) Derricks serve the Lord in Macau. Serena serves as a GEO missionary through LCMS World Mission. (GEO missionaries are engaged in outreach around the world and serve for terms of 1-2 years.) Serena teaches English as a Foreign Language in small groups, one-on-one, and in larger classes at the Concordia English Center in Macau. She also helps to lead Bible studies and outreach activities. Through all of these ministries, Serena shares the Gospel with students and their families as she builds relationships with them.

Check out the website: http://www.lcms.org/ca/mission/prayercards/index-v1.5.asp


World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. Motivated by faith, they serve the poor, regardless of a person’s religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people.

Check out the websites: www.worldvision.org and www.wvi.org


Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.I Thessalonians 2:8

Eliott & Serena Derricks, Missionaries

World Vision

Humanitarian

step up!Donations of food, toiletries and women’s clothing are gladly accepted. Contact Rick Miller at [email protected] or Jaye Zern at [email protected].

New Hope Christian Fellowship, our neighbor to the south, is spiritually and physically active in the Federal Way community. They believe in becoming the living Gospel, participating in what Jesus is already doing here. They believe in love and service and sharing resources such as showers and meals with brothers and sisters who are homeless, displaced, out of work or disadvantaged.


step up!Follow Sean Petree’s ministry at http://shawnpetree.wordpress.com/.

step up!Volunteer at one of the Young Life Clubs, mentor a student or participate in a fundraiser (check out the web). Contact: Steve Vollmer at [email protected].

The name “Teleios” is a Greek word which means “adult, full grown or mature.” Teleios is founded to help men reach maturity in Christ through building bonds of friendship with other men. Small groups help men bring greater balance to their lives, positively impacting their relationship with Jesus Christ, their family, career, workplace and community.

Check us out: http://teleios.org


Young Life doesn’t start with a program. It starts with adults concerned enough about kids to go to them, on their turf and in their culture, building bridges of

authentic friendship. These relationships don’t happen overnight — they take time, patience, trust and consistency. They believe in the power of presence. Kids’ lives are

dramatically impacted when caring adults come alongside them, sharing God’s love with them. Because their leader believes in them, they begin to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose.

Check us out: www.federalway.younglife.org


New Hope Christian Fellowship

Teleios

Federal Way Young Life

Faith Building

step up!Prepare and serve dinners for a week with friends. Help the St. Luke’s crew provide meals for a week in January, 2012 (contact Doug at [email protected]). Give to the new women’s shelter (opening this winter). Contact Willa at [email protected].

step up!Volunteer to meet with clients, pray for those in need, build relationships through follow up phone calls. Email [email protected]

step up!Volunteer to serve a meal with the St. Luke’s crew, host a bocce ball tournament, tweet your support - @seattlesUGM, check out the website for a t-shirt graphic and make your own t-shirt!

Reach Out provides shelter, food, case management and other support services to homeless men in Federal Way. The desire is to move the men toward self-sufficiency. Last winter, Reach Out’s shelter was hosted by both Calvary Lutheran and Steel Lake Churches, while many other organizations and churches contributed to meal service. A women’s shelter (the first in Federal Way) will open this winter.

financial commitment: $1,000 (per shelter)

Operation Blessing serves residents of the Federal Way School District by assisting with financial support for mortgage, rent, utilities, gasoline or other miscellaneous areas. Operation Blessing is a service provided with the love of the Lord. This is fully funded by St Luke's members.


The mission of Seattle Union Gospel mission is to serve, rescue, and transform those in greatest need through the grace of Jesus Christ. The Mission has a number of programs created to do just this. Men, women and children are provided with food, shelter, residential drug and alcohol recovery, life skills training, transitional housing and spiritual development among other things.

Check us out: www.ugm.org


step up!Collect toiletries or volunteer at a community supper. Call 253.661.0505 for information.

step up!Volunteer to work on the job site or donate in-kind gifts of services or goods. Host a nail or hammer drive. Email Ann at: [email protected] to volunteer in Westway.

Federal Way Community Caregiving Network serves the community of Federal Way through emergency assistance and free community meals served at various locations.


Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to providing decent, affordable homes for those in need. St. Luke’s has a long history of serving with Habitat. We are currently a part of an Apostle’s Build, where churches come together to complete one home. Because of the state of the housing crisis, the Apostle’s Build group has put our resources toward purchasing a a foreclosed duplex in Westway (Federal Way) for renovation.

Check us out: www.seattle-habitat.org


Reach Out Men's Shelter

Operation Blessing

Seattle's Union Gospel Mission

Federal Way Community Caregiving Network (FWCCN)

Habitat for Humanity

Humanitarian

step up!Adopt a seminarian student through financial sponsorship and other support. Call 1-800-822-5287

step up!Cheer on one of sports teams, tour the school and/or send your teen to school at Mt. Rainier.

step up!Volunteer your time in the classroom or library, take a tour of the school, and/or send your child to Concordia.

Concordia Seminary serves the church and world by providing theological education and leadership centered in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for the formation of pastors, missionaries, and leaders in the name of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

Check us out: www.csl.edufinancial commitment: $2,000

Scholarships are potentially awarded to those students seeking higher education that leads to church work, whether pastoral, Christian education, or other possibilities. One scholarship was awarded this year to Todd Zern.


At Concordia we believe each child is a unique creation from God. We value each individual and strive to discover how we can best help each student succeed. We inspire, coach, challenge, accommodate, and minister in any way we can, loving each child as God loves us. We see ourselves not as a private school, but rather as a Christian school.

www.concordiatacoma.comfinancial commitment: $8,800

The mission of Mount Rainier Lutheran High School is to provide a Christ-centered and student-focused school that equips young people in their educational & spiritual journey to be servant leaders in a global society. Mt. Rainier seeks to raise the expectation of enriched academics. The school provides a primarily college preparatory program that equips students for a wide spectrum of post high school choices.

Check it out: www.mrlh.orgfinancial commitment: $4,000

Concordia Seminary, St Louis, MO

Church Worker Scholarships

Concordia School, Tacoma, WA

Mt Rainier High School

Faith Building

St. Luke’s has been sending mission teams to the remote fishing village of Hoonah, Alaska for ten years. Each summer, a team of youth and adults travel to Alaska to provide Vacation Bible School for the children, as well as provide basketball camp, adult bible studies, youth events and assistance with construction projects. Prayer requests include: spiritual and moral guidance, healing of broken families and/or chronic alcohol and substance abuse, a decline in teen pregnancy and the struggles for survival.

The Gleaners Mission is a “first-step” mission for Middle School students, where they can step outside of their own lives to serve the world in great ways. St. Luke’s has partnered with the Okanagan Gleaners Society, a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization located in Oliver, BC, Canada. For a week this summer, we help process fresh donated vegetables into dehydrated soup mixes. These soup mixes are then sent out all over the world not only to help nourish the hungry, but to help spread the love and good news of Jesus Christ.

Contact Jake Allstaedt at [email protected] more information regarding this mission trip.

The Mexico Outreach mission trip is all about partnering with a church called Nuestro Refugio, “Our Refugio” in the community of Ensenada, Mexico. This trip is primarily for high school and college age students who desire to step beyond our borders and partner with our brothers and sisters in Christ in Mexico this coming summer, for a week starting July 27.

Contact Jake Allstaedt at [email protected] for more information regarding ongoing ministry.

step up!Sponsor a child in Mahlalini for $35 a month. This supports community projects focused on clean water, food security, education, spiritual nurture, and more. V olunteer and/or donate to 30 Hour Famine (February 2012) and the Caregiver Kit build (April 2012).

step up!Volunteer to mentor a student through Communities in Schools. Send a card of encouragement or a plate of cookies to the Mirror Lake staff. Email [email protected] for more information.

This year we launched a partnership with the community of Mahlalini, Swaziland through World Vision Church Partnership. Our commitment to this community is one that will stretch over the coming years as we walk alongside the people, pray for them, care for them and support community development projects. We are excited to have this privilege of connecting and inviting the people of Mahlalini into our lives.

In Swaziland twenty-six percent of people are infected with HIV/AIDS. Forty-two percent of pregnant women are infected. One in five children is an orphan.

Our first vision/mission team is traveling to Mahlalini in October 2011 and will begin the process of building relationships and discerning how we can be a mutual blessing.

We are called to be a light in our community. God has called us to work with Mirror Lake Elementary, to be a light and an encouragement to the families there. Approximately 75% of Mirror Lake families live at or below the Federal poverty line. We want to be an encouragement to the school, families and faculty through events, mentoring and providing resources for the neediest of families.

Hoonah, AK

Okanagen Gleaners

Azuza Pacific University Mexico Outreach/Ensenada, Mexico

Mahlalini, Swaziland

Mirror Lake Elementary

The Benevolence Fund is available on a limited basis to assist members of the St. Luke's congregation during emergency hardship and financial stress. It is funded by donations from St Luke’s Church members.

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Jan Grothe, Director of Spiritual Growth at [email protected]

As a church, we want to encourage the Christian education of our children. Families considering enrolling their children in Lutheran schools are welcome to apply for a scholarship through St. Luke’s Church. This fund is supported solely through donations.

If you have questions or would like an application, please email Todd Zern, Director of Operations at [email protected]

Benevolence Fund

School Scholarships (Preschool - High School)

St. Luke's Purpose StatementTo seek out and bring people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

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