ELCA Malaria Campaign Update

From Jessica Nipp, ELCA Malaria Campaign Coordinator:


Dear friends,


You did it! Your overwhelming generosity to the ELCA Malaria Campaign in the week after World Malaria Day exceeded our hopes and our expectations. Together, you gave over $203,000 -- enough to launch the work of the ELCA Malaria Campaign in Liberia!

The Rev. D. Jensen Seyenkulo, newly elected Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, expresses his gratitude for your gifts:

In Liberia, there is no city or village that is safe from the malaria parasite. The whole country is at risk. So the anti-malaria work of the Lutheran Church in Liberia is of utmost importance. Through your gifts to the ELCA Malaria Campaign, you have made that anti-malaria work possible.

I bring a message from your Lutheran brothers and sisters in Liberia: thank you! Thank you for walking with us as we faced civil war, disease, displacement and unemployment. Thank you for walking with us as partners in the gospel we share. And thank you for making possible the work that our church is doing to prevent, treat and educate about malaria in Liberia.

We have been working hard to get ready for these malaria programs. Our experts have studied trends and treatments of malaria. We've identified the needs in our communities and how the church, through our health care ministries, can fill them. We're ready to mobilize -- all we needed was the funding to get started. Thanks to you, our programming work can now begin. As we walk hand in hand, God will work through us to save lives.

Because of your generous gifts, Lutherans in Liberia will continue their long legacy of meeting the health care needs in their communities. We are a church that rolls up our sleeves and gets to work. You have brought us all one step closer to our goal of making malaria history. Thank you!


In Christ,

Jessica Nipp
Coordinator, ELCA Malaria Campaign

P.S. Our work in Liberia is just one example of the amazing things our church can accomplish together through the ELCA Malaria Campaign, and our work has just begun. We have a goal of raising $15 million by 2015 to support the work of our partners and companions in 12 countries in Africa. Your gifts of any size, at any time, make a difference.