Help Support our Missionaries!

New "Missionary Support Charts" are up in the Narthex. Our pledged mission support is $120 each week for: Jim & Carol Sack & family and $120 for Dana Nelson & her family. We need $30.00 from 8 different persons/couples/families every week to meet our commitment.

Sign your name on the charts in as many places as you wish. You may also designate if you want it listed in memory or honor of someone. We will list this in the weekly bulletin.

Give your support on the Sunday of the week for which you have pledged (write “Missionary Support” on your check’s memo line). You can place your checks in the offering plate or give them to the receptionist in the church office.

Please remember to pray for the Sack and the Nelson families, especially during the week for which you have pledged support.

Global Mission - Current Events in Peru

Pastora Dana Nelson

Pastora Dana serves Cristo Rey (Christ the King) Church in Lima as the first ELCA missionary to Peru.

Huch ‘uy Runa

Dear Normandale Members,

We bring you greetings from your friends at Huch ‘uy Runa School in Cusco, Peru. We were privileged to visit the school during a recent trip to South America. As we entered the school, we were met with the happy sounds of children laughing and playing.

The talented, nurturing teachers there provide their 200+ children with an education, marketable skills, and spiritual guidance as well as basic needs such as food and a place to sleep if needed. They are concerned about the total welfare of each student and their families.

They were excited to hear that we were from Normandale Church and are so grateful for the prayer and financial support our church has given them. They are very thankful for our members who have visited and worked with them and would gladly welcome future visitors with open arms. They made us feel so welcome.

Please continue to pray for this wonderful school, the teachers, the students, and their families.

The Holy Spirit is indeed at work in Huch ‘uy Runa.
Debbie & Mel Henry

Global Mission - Current Events in Japan

Jim and Carol Sack

Since 1999, Normandale has supported Jim and Carol Sack in Jim's teaching at Lutheran Seminary in Tokyo and Carol's ministry to the sick and dying with a bedside harp.

Global Mission - SAYFSM

Sub-Saharan African Youth & Family Services in Minnesota

The Global Mission Committee is looking forward to celebrating the Christmas holiday with our SAYFSM friends.

As part of our celebration, we intend to give each SAYFSM family Target gift certificates, so they may purchase items most needed. We also plan to purchase bus passes to help with their transportation needs.

We request your help in this endeavor and will be accepting cash donations at the Welcome Center on November 15, 22 and 29 after both the 8:30 & 11:00 am services. You will also have an opportunity to write a personal greeting to a SAYFSM family at this time. This project will be supplemented by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

These gift certificates and bus passes will be given to each family at our annual Christmas party. The congregation is invited to attend  the party on Saturday, December 5, at Normandale in the Fellowship Hall, from 12:30-2:30 pm.  There is no cost and food is provided. 

Come join us! 

Global Mission Matrix

This matrix puts Global Mission outreach in perspective. It is organized by the two-year Sunday School schedule of emphasizing a "Foreign" ministry, but the Global Mission Committee and other groups actively support the other ministries every year.

Appropriate to Sunday School, each foreign ministry emphasizes children's welfare. Huch'uy Runa provides holistic support to street kids in the Andean tourist town of Cusco. In Ntalawanda we've built a school and provided it with electricity. Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh offers primary medical care and economic development to women and children in southern Bangladesh.

Our local partners work with immigrant families (SAYFSM, Sub-Saharan Youth & Family Services in Minnesota, specifically with African immigrants with HIV) and communities. Our missionary support is local only because the missionaries come from the Cities.

For more information on these local missionaries contact Pastor Dale Howard at Normandale 952-929-1697.

Missionary Support

Year-to-date, our congregation has given approximately $2,000 each to the Sack family in Japan and the Nelson family in Peru. Through our sponsorship covenants made with these missionaries, we seek to provide financial assistance of $7,100 and $5,000, respectively, for these families.

Please help in our commitment to spread the gospel of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, outside of our immediate community. You may sign up in the narthex or, make checks in any amount payable to Normandale Lutheran Church, with the missionary’s name on the memo line. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Global Mission Committee

Normandale is committed to proclaiming Jesus Christ outside of its immediate community through its support of missionary families in other parts of the world. In 2007 we started supporting missionaries in Central Asia who construct bridges and irrigation projects.

The Global Mission Committee of Normandale selects missionary families that are supported by Global Mission of the ELCA. The missionary's role is to spread the Good News. Our role is to support them financially and through prayer. Do you hear the call? Can you support our missionaries as they spread the Good News of our Savior, Jesus Christ?