Miwani for Mwanza: Maundy Thursday

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Maundy Thursday

Dear Lord, Nourish our souls as we are in need to be filled by you. Nourish our heart so to turn us from our fears. Nourish our relationships for your are the healer of all things. Nourish our bodies so that they may be fit to serve you. We instill our full confidence in you, for you are our Bread of Life.

Today is Maundy Thursday, the Christian feast or holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter.

On this day four events are commemorated: the washing of the Disciples' Feet by Jesus Christ, the institution of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, the agony of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.

“I Am the Bread of Life” is the theme for the 7:30pm Maundy Thursday Service at Atonement.

Tonight we will also have the opportunity to participate in the Bread for the World Offering of Letters. Before and after Maundy Thursday Service, stations will be available for you to write a letter (using a template) to Congress to promote change through ending hunger. Take a moment to lift up hope for bread for all.

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Miwani for Mwanza Mission

In July 2009 the “Miwani for Mwanza” mission team from Atonement Lutheran Church traveled from Overland Park to Mwanza, Tanzania. “Miwani” is the Swahili word for eye glasses.

While in Tanzania the team worked with International Health Partners to begin the construction of an eye clinic at the Nyakato Health Center. The eye clinic is critically needed to serve over 200,000 people in the Southern Lake Victoria area.

Dennis and Paula Lofstrom and IHP-TZ oversee the Nyakato Health Clinic through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.

In June of 2012 another team from Atonement will travel to Mwanza with the goal to finish the eye clinic as well as to serve in various medical roles. Several members of the M4M team are Health Care Professionals and during the trip will be providing medical & eye exams, treatments and eye surgery for the people in that area of Tanzania.

$36,000.00 US is needed to to purchase the supplies to complete the Ahlrichs Eye Clinic, and $21,000 of that has been raised already through a Golf Benefit last fall and the "Spread Some Salt" Gala & Silent Auction this past March.

Your contributions toward the final $10,000 needed to complete the Eye Clinic are greatly apprieciated by the M4M teams, IHP-TZ and the people of Mwanza. Asante Sana!

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