Global Mission Tool Kits have been distributed free of charge to all ELCA congregations since 1999. For your convenience, some of the materials from previous kits are available here for downloading. To order any of these in hard copy please see information at right.

Global Worship

• Global Devotions and Worship Helps
  A series of devotions and worship outlines on different themes is available. The paper copy (Order information at right) offers these as one piece, including the cover page  that contains useful information on the use of this material. The following are the individual components:
  • Celebrating Accompaniment as we do mission
  • Stand With Africa: A Campaign of Hope
  • Support of companions in Palestine
  • A service of Peace
  • A service of Healing
  • Uplifting international mission personnel
  • Celebrating Companion Synod relationships
  • Lutheran World Federation Sunday
  • Sources
• Global Eucharist Worship Service is a ready-to-use resource. , NOTE: legal size (8.5 X 14 inches) paper required to print this. (Teaching cassette can be ordered; see information at right)
• The Global Worship Service of Word and Prayer is a ready-made worship resource you can reproduce, suitable for Sunday, midweek, or afternoons.
• Global Liturgical Expressions contains a collection of Kyries and Alleluias from around the world, ready to be integrated into a worship service at any time during the year. (Teaching CD can be ordered; information at right)
• Global Liturgical Expressions: Sanctus, Amen, and Gloria - simple responses to include in your existing liturgy. (Order information at right)
  Click here to hear some audio excerpts from the CD that accompanies the Tool Kit.
• Prayer Around the Cross - directions, music and order of service for a meditative prayer service. (Order information at right)

Global Stewardship

• Make your own collection bank with this wrap-around label.
• Urgent appeal for Palestine: information about three Lutheran ministries that need ELCA support.
• Interactive stewardship stories on ELCA-supported ministries in Brazil, China, Latvia, Madagascar, Palestine, and Senegal

Global Education

• Mission Moments: short activities that tell the global mission story.
• Global Mission Recruitment: An Adult Education Resource.
• A copy of the Fall 1999 Mosaic (video news magazine) featuring Palestine.
• Country Packet resources.
• Celebrating Global Mission is a resource that provides everything your congregation needs to know to hold a global mission festival.
• A pamphlet on the Companion Synod Program. (Once downloaded, you may wish to photocopy it back-to-back -- pages 1 and 8 together with 2 and 7, etc. -- and collate the pages into booklet form, folded in the middle.)
• Come Home Changed provides some basic information on how you can get started on planning for travel, especially how you can be transformed this experience. NOTE: legal size (8.5 X 14 inches) paper required to print this.

Children and Youth

• Receiving the Gifts - a reproducible bulletin insert for children ages 4-7. ; 11X14 legal size recommended for printing.

Video

"What Is a Missionary?" - Four missionaries in Europe and Lynda Tidemann-Minnick answer this provocative question. They challenge you to reflect on how God's global mission has remained steadfast while the approach to doing mission has changed significantly. A good source for small-group conversation. Watch it here on-line with 
or order a free copy by calling 1-800-638-3522, ext. 2642)