•September 28, 2022•
Mary Hutchings and Marlene Wirth, both of Sullivan, attended the 77th Effingham/Shelby Zone Fall Rally of the LWML, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Louisville, Illinois on September 21, 2022. The theme for the day was, “Light up the Word with Christ. Reverend Stephen Rutherford of the host church led the opening service and Reverend Martin Eden, pastor from Our Redeemer Lutheran Church of Quincy, Illinois, was the keynote speaker.
In 2020, Reverend Eden began corresponding with Reverend Peter Maganda who is the Dean of the Seminary in the Eastern Deanery for the Lutheran Church of Uganda. Area mission monies have since helped with food supplies for the people of this very poor eastern African nation. Local mission monies also helped to purchase two motorcycles so the vicars can travel to remote villages. Also, money has come to them to purchase six acres of land in Uganda to build a Lutheran church and a boarding school with dormitories.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.