Second Offering

MONTHLY SECOND OFFERINGS - 2011
January, Lutheran World Relief: $756 ($200 Thrivent Match)
February, Namibia Scholarships: $8119 ($500 Thrivent Match)
March, Haiti, Good Samaritan Home: $2192 ($500 Thrivent Match)
April, Japanese Relief $2213 ($500 Thrivent Match)
May, Community Dinner: $$358
June, Manchay, Peru: $2950
July, Dillion Valley Elementary: $1732 ($300 Thrivent Match)
August, La Puente: $1557 ($500 Thrivent Match)
September, FIRC: $1200
October, Domus Paces: $405
November: Peace Lutheran Church, Joplin, Missouri (destroyed in tornado): $1500 ($500 Thrivent match)
No Offering in December

MONTHLY SECOND OFFERINGS - 2010
January, Haiti: $42,380
February, Namibia: $6437
March, La Puente: $1631
April, LWR: $832
May, Community Dinner: $1594
June, Manchay, Peru: $1681
July, Dillion Valley Elementary: $1060
August, Haiti: $7251
September, Domus Pacis: $1745
October, Emergency Help Fund: $5473
November, Namibia: $1615
No Offering in December
Total for 2010: $72,500

Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

Below you will find a brief description of each of the
recipient organizations of our monthly "Second Offering."

To donate to one of the below causes send your check to:
LOTM
PO BOX 1059
Dillon, Colorado 80435
"note" your check for the specific cause

Thrivent Financil matches many of our Second Offerings up to $500

Dillon Valley Elementary School - Summit County, Colorado

Project Objectives - In 2009 LOTM adopted the Dillon Valley Elementary School to support their efforts in bi-lingual education to a culturally diverse population of students. Dillon Valley has a 63% minority population, creating unusual teaching challenges and a need for outside support.

Current Activities - In 2009, we provided a variety of school supplies which were given to the school to distribute according to need. LOTM volunteers have been assisting students in reading, science, homework assignments, supporting the chess club, and math games on the computer. Volunteers have also worked at home cutting patterns for art projects or bulletin boards.

In 2011 $1750 was given towards books for a take-home reading program.

More volunteers are needed.

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Project Objectives - The objective is to affirm God's love for all people by working with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice, , and human suffering. LWR acts on behalf of US Lutherans and the ELCA through international relief and development.

Current Activities - Digging wells to ensure that women and children can work and go to school, giving farmers the tools they need to grow better and more plentiful crops, responding when disasters strike: this is the essential work of Lutheran World Relief – empowering people to end poverty, hunger, disease and conflict.

LWR is presently working in Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Africa LWR is at work in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the Americas, assistance is given in the United States, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Specific projects include: Health kits for people who must flee their homes quickly, Haiti earthquake relief for rural communities to provide for food, water, temporary shelter and sanitation, as well as long-term needs that include restoring local economies, rebuilding infrastructure, getting people back to work, and providing for health and sanitation. School kits provide supplies for children returning to school after the disruption of war. Fair Trade Handcraft Project where artisans are paid fairly for their handcraft.

At LOTM, we enjoy the crafts each holiday season at our World Trade Fair and the Fair Trade Coffee Project ensures that more of the money you spend on coffee reaches the farmers who actually grow it. It can mean the difference – quite literally- between surviving and not surviving for small-scale coffee farmers. LOTM has contributed generously to Lutheran World Relief for many years. Photo: A displaced child received items including a health kit and other things in the Phillippines.

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Jeremie, Haiti - Good Samaritan Senior Center

Project Objectives - Our goal is to support the lives of the elderly poor by providing shelter, food, and care in Jeremie, Haiti. Our objectives are to refurbish The Good Samaritan Home for Seniors and provide monthly food support. In 2008 we repaired the roof of the dining room. In 2009 we partnered with Summit County Rotary and Thrivent for funding and installed a new water tank, septic system, toilets, showers and sinks. In 2010 we equipped and installed a kitchen and furnished a dining room. Over $6000 was raised.

Current Activities - Primary to all support is a monthly food allowance. Every month we send $1000 to feed the seniors and staff.

Due to the massive earthquake on January 12, 2010, refugees began surging out of Port au Prince to return to the homes of friends and relatives in the countryside villages, like Jeremie. We are seeking ways to feed the many refugees flooding the area. The LOTM second offering for Jeremie earthquake support allowed us to provide over three tons of food and medical supplies. The LDS church in Haiti donated approximately 1000 hygiene kits, 120-25 pound bags of beans, 100 water filtration bottles, 100-25 pound boxes of rice, and 2 pallets of shelf stable milk (2000 servings per pallet). Additional aid was donated by a warehouse in the Dominican Republic. Air and ground transportation for the aid was provided by our relief assistance. Additionally, 15 family sized tents have been sent to Port au Prince for emergency shelter and we continue to provide supplemental food support to children and families in Jeremie.

Feed A Senior - There are 19 senior residents at the Good Samaritan Home and 3 staff members. The cost is $40.00 per month to supply one person with rice and beans. Several friends and supporters of Jeremie Relief have pledged monthly food support on a long term basis. More pledges are needed. Photo: A resident of the senior home in Jeremie.

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La Puente Home - Alamosa, Colorado - web

Project Objectives - La Puente serves the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado, providing emergency shelter, food assistance, transitional housing and self sufficiency services, homeless prevention, community outreach service, community gardens, as well as job training and employment services for the homeless and community members in crisis. La Puente endeavors to meet immediate needs and empower people to live independently and with dignity.

In 2010, La Puente Shelter will provide 10,000 nights of emergency shelter for over 1,000 people including families, migrant farm workers and others in need. In addition, the 50 bed shelter will provide over 43,000 meals for both shelter guests and community members in need of a hot nourishing meal. In addition to offering an abundance of programs, La Puente operates a number of entrepreneurial businesses to help support their mission including the Milagro Coffee House, Sky Vue Motel, Hunt Avenue Boutique and the Rainbows End Thrift Store.

Current Activities - Lord of the Mountains formed a partnership with La Puente in the Fall of 2009 taking two separate trips to Alamosa. Our groups worked on a number of projects including painting fences around the shelter, working in the community gardens, building bunk beds for volunteer housing, preparing meals for the shelter and gleaning carrots from the fields for the food bank. In addition to volunteer hands-on activities, Lord of the Mountains purchased a much needed commercial stove for the kitchen as well as 100 sets of soups bowls and flatware.

In 2010 we have reserved space for another group of 15 scheduled for the week of June 20-26th. Due to its close proximity to Summit County, La Puente provides an excellent and affordable opportunity for LOTM members and especially youth members to participate in their first mission trip.

Photo: Children gleaning the fields around La Puente near Alamosa.

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Community Dinner - Silverthorne, Colorado

Project Objectives - The inspiration for the Community Dinner came from the LOTM Outreach Committee. Deborah Hage solicited Rotary who provided a matching grant to get the program running. The Silverthorne Elks Lodge joined as a co-partner and provides the kitchen, food storage, and dining facilities.

The objective is to provide a free weekly community dinner that welcomes everyone regardless of need. It focuses on underprivileged families with children within our community, and solicits support from organizations throughout Summit County in order to make the dinner a true community event.

Current Activities - In the first year of operation, from March 3, 2009 to March 2, 2010, over 11,727 meals have been served including 3,672 to children. In addition to LOTM, Elks and Rotary, the dinners are now supported by a broad variety of businesses and organizations: Republican Women of Summit County, SOS, The Optimists, FIRC, The Knights of Columbus, Dillon Community Church, Summit Youth Hockey, The Community Care Clinic, Colorado West Mental Health, Land Title, the Summit High School Spanish Club, and the Frisco Elementary School staff. Major donors are LOTM, The Summit Foundation, and The Rotary Club of Summit County.

Besides private donations and meals that are prepared by the volunteers, food has been donated by Gilchrist Catering, A-Basin, Zuppa’s in Breckenridge, Dillon Dam Brewery, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Café, The Keystone Lodge, Pug Ryan’s, and Food Hedz. Safeway donates bread and deserts donated weekly. Numerous chefs, notably Doug Schwartz help out as needed.

The Community Dinners serve approximately 250 to 400+ people each week. They have proved to be truly helpful to many minority families, resort personnel, and those struggling financially as well as providing a friendly gathering place for others

Photo: Mac handing out desserts at the dessert table.

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Namibia - Student Scholarships

Project Objectives - Our goal is to raise the 10th grade pass rate in one tribal area to 60%. Only 30% of the children in the tribal areas of Namibia currently pass 10th grade. 85% of the children in our tribal area are either orphans, their parents have AIDS, and/or they live on less than 25 cents a day. 11th and 12th grades are not available in the area, so they have to attend a boarding school which costs about $225 per year. Because they can't pay for 11th and 12th grades, there is little incentive to bother passing 10th grade.

The tribal areas are communal which means that any child who gets an education (and consequently a job) is obligated to fund the education of her own children and of at least one other child in his extended family. The one child we funded 16 years ago has educated 4 additional children.

Current Activities - In 2010, 32 students are receiving scholarships for 11th and 12th grades. We raised $5437 in February and Thrivent awarded an additional $1000 in matching funds.

Our first group of recipients finished 12th grade this year. Only one did not qualify for tertiary education. However, half of those who qualified are taking a remedial English course before they can begin regular course work. Therefore we are now supplying each scholarship recipient with a pocket English dictionary and an English-Oshikwanyama dictionary. We are also requiring them to write a letter each trimester in order to receive the scholarship payment for the following trimester. We plan to gradually increase the difficulty of the writing assignment.

We recently noticed that the schools in the tribal area are becoming more competitive and have begun to adopt practices of the better performing schools.

Photo: A scholoarship recipient.

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Manchay, Peru - Home Building Project

Project Objectives - Since 2004, the primary objective has been to follow whatever course is necessary to improve the human condition of impoverished lives in Manchay, Peru.

At the outset, the objective was to build a shelter for abused and battered women. Later we built a classroom for handicapped children at Virgen del Rosario elementary through secondary school. Next we built classrooms tht were desperately needed at the overcrowded school. We completed the roof of the main church.

Finally we built four houses in 2006, five in 2007, five in 2008 and three in 2009. Five more were bult in 2010. Each home costs $2500 and each member of the mission team pays there own way to Peru to work.

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Other Outreach Projects over and above the Second Offering include Operation Christmas Child

and the Lutheran World Relief Handcraft Project - Global Trade Fair.

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PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
Joplin, Missouri

Our November 2011 Second Offering is designated for Peace Lutheran Church
in Joplin, Missouri destroyed by a tornado in the severe weather outbreak of Spring 2011.
LOTM plans a work trip to Joplin in the Spring of 2012

before the tornado

after the tornado