Missions We Support
Missions
Our Mission Statement:
Lutheran Church of Prayer is engaging the community
by walking with others and teaching the Word of God
through relationships and personal example.
Individually and corporately, we accomplish this goal, in part, by supporting the following other Christian ministries.
We support these ministries through prayer and our gifts of money and time.
Click on the name of the ministry for a link to their website.
Relay for Life - Praying for a Cure
We are currently sponsoring a team to represent LCoP in the Relay for Life campaign to raise funds to help find a cure to cancer. Click on the above link to learn how you can help us by buying raffle tickets for a quilt!
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, Bakersfield Chapter
In January 2012, LCoP received an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). This life saving device was donated to us by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, Bakersfield Chapter. Now it is our turn to help them help many others.
Every day, 16 more children's lives are cut short when their hearts unexpectedly stop. If these heart shocking devices were more readily available, many of those children could still be alive. By buying flowers through their current fund raiser, we can help SCAA, Bakersfield Chapter provide CPR/AED Training and Heart Screenings, and make AEDs accessible to schools and youth organizations in Bakersfield. Order soon via this link; the fund raiser ends April 27, 2012!
Navajo Lutheran Mission
Our Christ's Light Small Group ministry is sponsoring the collection of Box Tops for Education. Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona. All you need to do is collect Box Tops for Education labels from any of the 100 General Mills products (see list attached to the March 2012 newletter). Bring your labels to church and put them in the label collection container. The money raised from the donated Box Tops will go to the Navajo Lutheran Mission and the Mission Charter School for purchasing Bibles and other school supplies.
Drought in East Africa
In Fall 2011, our mission emphasis was to help the people in East Africa who are suffering from a severe drought.
Bakersfield Pregnancy Center
Offering alternative choices to abortions, the Bakersfield Pregnancy Center helps women who are in need. LCoP annually raises
funds for the Center through a Baby Bottle campaign. Several of our members volunteer at the Center; some have worked at the Center in various jobs.
Living Water International
At least 880 million people in the world do not have access to safe water; this is roughly one in eight of the world's population.
(WHO-UNICEF) 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5000 deaths
a day. (UNDP) Living Water International conducts projects to provide safe water and hygiene education to poor, rural villages around the world.
In Fall 2010, members and friends of LCoP raised funds for Living Water International which were used to construct a water well for a rural,
poor village in the mountains of Peru. Click on this link to read Living
Water International's report about that water well.
Lutheran Bible Translators
Alvina Federwitz, serving in Ghana
There are more than 6900 different languages spoken in the world. More than 4500 of these languages have no portion of Scripture
translated. More than 350 million people around the world do not have access to God's Word in their heart language . . their mother tongue. Lutheran
Bible Translators (LBT) is an independent Lutheran mission organization dedicated to helping bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. They strive to do this
through their 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. LCoP
members are actively supporting the following LBT missionaries; click on their name to access a website with photos, information, blogs, newsletter, etc.:
Ed and Wilma Rupprecht, serving in Nigeria
Jonathan and Carrie Federwitz, serving in Papua New Guinea
Operation Christmas Child
Beginning in October each year, we start a campaign to demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to needy children around
the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
- As we adopt other mission projects or have updated information for those posted above, this page will be revised periodically; so check back to learn more about what we're doing with these and other ministries. -
Last updated 03/03/2012
'...For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,
I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me,
I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you
did for me.'
Matthew 25:35-40 NIV
If you would like to partner with us in ministry to God's people, contact Us at 661-871-1289.
