June Mission Partner: Lutheran World Relief

LWR is a non-profit organization that focuses on disaster relief/ recovery and offers many different services to the poor in 30-35 countries. Today, LWR helps communities living in extreme poverty adapt to the challenges that threaten their livelihoods and well being and responds to emergencies with a long-term view. Bethlehem has long supported this organization by volunteers sewing quilts and assembling school kits. Volunteers take the completed quilts and school kits to a LWR warehouse in South St. Paul, where they are packaged and loaded into shipping containers for Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. One of the ways a financial contribution helps LWR is for shipping costs. It costs on average about $2.25 for a quilt and $1.40 for a school kit to be shipped from the U.S. to a designated country. The total spent by LWR for shipping kits and quilts exceeds $1.3 million per year. For more information, go to lwr.org.

Make a donation here or by sending a check to the church, memo line "June Mission."