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Extending Christian compassion and support through benevolence and volunteer participation in local service, global outreach, advocacy, and ministry. Click here for current Social Service Announcements Ongoing Service Opportunities at TLLC
Water to Thrive provides clean water to those in rural Africa. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , founder of W2T and member of TLLC, for more information. Visit Water to Thrive ELCA World Hunger Appeal-When you shop at Randalls and join their Good Neighbor program, you can designate TLLC as your organization of choice and they will send us one percent of your purchase total. We will then send all that money to the ELCA Hunger Appeal. Visit ELCA World Hunger Hill Country Community Ministries - TLLC is designated "the peanut butter church" by HCCM. That means we've committed to keep their food pantry shelves stocked with peanut butter. Consider making it a habit to stop by the peanut butter shelf first every time you visit the grocery store, and pick up a small jar. Email Jack Stueber for more information. Visit Hill Country Community Ministries
Lutheran Social Services provides help, healing, and hope to children, elderly, and the poor. Email
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for more information. LWR Fair Trade Coffee Project supports small growers in third world countries by buying Fair Trade coffee, tea, and chocolate at TLLC's monthly sale. We work through Lutheran World Relief to sell an array of competitively priced products from the Equal Exchange fair trade company. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information. Visit LWR Fair Trade Coffee Project Meals on Wheels has many volunteer opportunities for individuals and families. The time involved can be a one-time, weekly, or daily commitment. Email Pat DiSanza for more information.Visit Meals on Wheels Missionary for a Day-TLLC provides missionary support to Mission Laredo and the Indonesian Christian Fellowship. The suggested minimum pledge for one day is $20.00. Choose a date for yourself, your family or a loved one in honor of a birth or death of a loved one, or another significant event in your life or your family's life. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to sign up. Olivewood Project-Olivewood figures crafted by artisans in the Holy Land are sold at TLLC at various times during the year. Proceeds benefit the children of Beit Sahour Lutheran school, near Bethlehem. Email Ed Schwanke or call 310.9622, for more information. TLLC's Quilting Group meets to make quilts for Lutheran World Relief to deliver to people in need throughout the world. You can participate by making the quilts and/or donating supplies. Everyone is invited. For information call Arlene at 836.2202. Visit Lutheran World Relief Parish Projects Austin Area Interreligious Ministries is an inclusive, interreligious, caring community that generates mutual respect, trust, and social justice through education, advocacy, social services, and community building. Visit Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Bread for the World-Every year during worship services and other events, such as the CROP Walk, tens of thousands of BFW members and others offer to God letters they have written to their members of Congress on legislation that is important to hungry people. Again and again, those Offerings of Letters win significant victories. Contact Jan Vardaman at 345.4733 for more information. Visit Bread for the World Crop Walk-Locally, 25 % of CROP Hunger WALK funds help in Austin and Central Texas. Email Janis Coltin for more information. |
