WELCOME!
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s ELCA Global Mission is pleased to provide this Lenten Worship Series, "Claimed by God’s Grace" as a gift to congregations for use at mid-week Lenten services or for use during the Sunday worship services in Lent. This is the first resource ELCA Global Mission has provided for web distribution only! We will be interested in hearing your evaluation through the form provided.

What is provided?
The series provides the following resources for a six part series of worship services:

1. A sermon written by an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America missionary
2. Order for worship suggestions from the collection of global mission worship materials
3. Bulletin Covers are provided for each week Each week’s bulletin will include global mission information about the ELCA’s work on that continent, how congregations and/or individual members may become more involved in global mission. These will include: (1) How to support an ELCA missionary or a specific project, (2) How to sign up for attending a Global Mission Event in the summer of 2004, (3) How to learn about serving as an ELCA missionary, and (4) How to learn more about the ELCA’s global mission work
4. Lenten Supper Suggestions If you have a Lenten Supper for mid-week services, we have included a recipe a soup each week.
5. Global Mission Educational and Stewardship Resources To assist in growth opportunities about the ELCA’s Global Mission work, we have included a weekly children’s story and video suggestions.

Click here for a downloadable bulletin insert you can use to publicize this Lenten series (in Word format, allowing you to adapt it for your use).