Lutheran World Relief

The Lutheran World Relief, or L.W.R., is an amazing and beneficial program for all involved. Their mission is to affirm God’s love for all people through working with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice, and human suffering. First Lutheran directly supports the ministry through the creation and donation of quilts and school supply kits for children all over the world.

Lutheran Immigration
and Refugee Service

Bread for the World 

As a covenant church with this advocacy organization, First Lutheran participates each year in Bread for the World Sunday. This is an opportunity to focus our congregational attention on the most vulnerable in our society through preaching, writing letters to our representatives, and selling home-made bread to raise money for B.F.W. 

After visiting Tanzania, Africa in 1999, two First Lutheran members (at the time), Don & Joann Tolmie, learned of a great need for education and advocacy for children with physical disabilities. In partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, the Faraja School is a residential school which provides students with accredited primary education. FLC continues to support the school through prayers, financial support, and regular visits from members of the congregation.

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary 

enCircle 

The people of enCircle educate students who need additional supports, empower people with developmental disabilities through a variety of community-based services, support children in foster care and foster parents, and provide mental health counseling to children, youth, and adults. We are also part of a network of agencies that reunites unaccompanied immigrant children with family or sponsors in the United States.