THE LHF MATCH IS BACK!
$175,000 As in previous years, a generous supporter has renewed their commitment to LHF, doubling the impact of your gifts by matching your offerings, dollar-for-dollar! Your $100 offering becomes $200! (Maximum match: $5,000)
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You can double your gift to the LHF mission
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12 MONTHS
All gifts from individuals and groups who haven’t already given to LHF in the past 12 months or more are eligible for their mission gifts to LHF to be matched. Eligible gifts are matched retroactively from Jan. 1, 2018 forward.
Your help is needed to answer the many calls LHF receives every day for good Lutheran books from around the world. With your help, LHF has translated and published more than 925 titles for Lutheran churches and missionaries.
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This year, LHF is starting work on Luther’s Small Catechism in 15 new languages! Work is underway on nearly 150 different book translations in 2018.
Questions? Contact the LHF office at (800)554-0723 or send an email to info@LHFmissions.org.
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TEACHING
For over 15 years, Sue Gross has led Mission Project (HLMP) in its many sho Haiti, where they have provided a grea for the people, including eyeglasses a an school children. Then one day, Sue had an epiphany. had been concentrating on the people reflected. “All of a sudden, I realized th their spiritual needs.” For the HLMP’s next project, Sue too and contacted LHF for Haitian-Creole l chisms. She made plans with a Haitian Isaac, to teach the catechism to Luther remote villages of northern Haiti. Then she recruited her longtime frie school teacher, Mark Lillie, to teach (pi rience proved to be more than either o “The catechism was an ideal teachin ments, and then questions about those “What does this mean? Who can bene through all of that. These Lutheran sch
TRANSLATOR SPOTLIGHT:
EX-MUSLIM
As a teen, Hesham Shehab took his prowled the streets of Lebanon by nig Christian enemies. Today, he is a Luthe translator/editor for LHF’s Arabic mate amazing story of God’s ability to transf In 1960, Rev. Shehab was born to a L Muslim family that traced their family h tribe of M founder o was high Christian whose m attacked Anger revenge young He ognizing for Islam, and lead ities, the recruited Rev. Hesham Shehab
