House to Home: 40 Days of Lent: Special Lenten Offering

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Prayers are taken from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (c) 2006, ELCA. Published by Augsburg Fortress. (#22745)

This year’s special Lenten offering seeks to put a roof on the Rwamagana Lutheran School in Rwanda. The Rwamagana Lutheran School recently received its license. Bishop Mark Holmerud participated in its dedication, and Pastor Frank’s daughter, Christina, is now working there with ELCA missionary and School Head Robin Strickler, Pastor John Rutsindintwarane’s wife.

The roof will cost $10,000 to build and will cover a 10 classroom, two-story building. As we seek to follow Jesus this Lent in a deeper way, we urge you to make a special offering so St. John’s can cover the costs of this project.

Please make checks out to St. John’s and mark “Rwanda Lutheran School Project” in the memo section.

We are so happy to be supporting the Lutheran Church in Rwanda as it helps its country make strong, bold steps away from the genocide that happened there less than 20 years ago. Education, as well as faith, is at the center of the wonderful Rwandan work of reconciliation that has been the more recent mark of this country.

For more information on the Rwamagana Lutheran School in Rwanda, check out the website at www.rwandaschoolproject.org. You can also make a donation with your ATM card, credit card, or bank account using our online giving page.

NOTE: This is a different school than the one we have raised money for over the last few Christmases. Thanks to your generosity, our fundraising for the dormitories benefiting the public secondary school in Rukira, Rwanda is now completed.

Psalm 84

1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!

2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young - a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.

8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.

9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.

10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

12 O LORD Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.

(The scripture quotations contained herein are from the NRSV Bible (c) 1989, by the Div. of Christian Ed. of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

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