Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh

This Thursday, May 8 at 12-1pm in OCC Seminar Room 2.

Bring your lunch!

Welcome to Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh. For more than ten years, this clinic has functioned as a home base for ministries that heal, equip and empower the

people of southern Bangladesh.

I know we're busy this time of year. I know that organized conversations and presentations during our lunch hours are not a top priority during finals and spring. But I invite you to consider spending this Thursday afternoon learning more about this unique partnership between Minneapolis Area congregations and the hope-filled people of Dumki, Bangladesh.

Here's a sneak peak:

LHCB provides healthy and safe care to pregnant women and their newborns. This hospital has grown to include a mobile clinic and serves women, men and children in affordable ways.

There is an ESL program and a preschool on the clinic campus.

Dumki Lutheran Church knows how to party on Christmas. Christians make up .03% of the Bangladeshi population and many have found a home and vocation here at LHCB.

Women in villages near and far have been equipped to form economic savings groups, providing greater opportunities and stability in their families and communities. Many have strong economic skills and have started their own businesses. These villages are also learning about arsenic poisoning that dramatically affects their health and society. Deep tube wells continue to be installed through the support of Lutherans in the Twin Cities.

I visited Bangladesh for the first time in 1997 and most of the men in the villages were not comfortable with their wives and daughters participating in these savings groups. Today these men look on with pride, supporting the women in their lives and excited about the changes they see in the village.

Bangladesh is the size of Wisconsin, but is home to more people than Russia. It is the third largest Muslim country in the world. It is a young country, born from political strife in the 1970s. The snows from the Himalaya Mountains melt and flow into these flood planes every year causing devastation and disease, but there is hope.

Come learn about mission in Bangladesh and the wonderful things God is up to there. Sit back, eat your lunch, look at pictures and hear tales from this place. Come when you can, leave when you must. Be inspired by LHCB's story. Share their hope with your congregations and go out into the world with a passion for the beautiful nooks and crannies of God's creation.

This Thursday, May 8 at 12-1pm in OCC Seminar Room 2.

Bring your lunch!