Where Now for the Global Missions Committee?

For many years Zion has helped sponsor the Murnyak’s Missionary Work in Tanzania. What wonderful devotion Dennis Murnyak and his family have shown in their missionary work. They have helped so many. As you may have heard the Murnyak’s contract expires in June of this year. At that time they will be moving back to the US to start the next chapter in their lives. We wish them all the best and thank them for their years of dedication.

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Lenten Self Denial Folders

Can you save .25 per day? Can your Sunday School child save .25 per day? That is what the Lenten Self Denial Folders are all about—saving for God’s work. The money saved by members and turned in during Holy Week goes to 2 causes:

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Something to Ponder from your Global Missions Committee

Webster defines hospice as “a place of shelter for travelers or a home for the sick or poor.” These words, especially the word shelter and the word home, conger up in most of us thoughts and feelings of warmth, comfort, love and security.

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Congratulations

Dennis & Kari at Zion in July 2007Dennis & Kari were married in Arusha, Tanzania on June 30th. They are pictured here when they visited Zion in July.

Dear Friends

reetings from Tanzania! With joy I want to share with you some good news. I asked Kari Hartwig to marry me on Jan.1 and she agreed. We plan to be married in Arusha on June 30th of this year. Kari teaches public health at Yale. She has many connections to Tanzania, one being that she was born here. Her parents taught at a Lutheran secondary school in Arusha. She also has done some of her research on HIV AIDS in Tanzania. Her Mom, Shoonie Hartwig, was a missionary to TZ and continues to work for the Mwangaza Center of the Lutheran Church. Christopher Hartwig, Kari’s brother, works as a medical doctor in Tanzania coordinating a hospice program for the Lutheran Church.
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