The Gift Goes On!

From LifeDate - Spring 2005.

The Gift Goes On!
by Karen Frohwein, Director of Development, Lutherans For Life

I’m a music lover and there is no season to enjoy music more than the Christmas season. A favorite Christmas CD of mine has a song titled The Gift Goes On. The first verse goes like this:

The Father gave the Son, The Son gave the Spirit,
The Spirit gives us life, so we can give the gift of love, and the gift goes on.

That song had special meaning this year as I saw how the Gift of Life goes on through your gifts to Lutherans For Life and the lives that are touched by the message of the Gospel that is at the center of all we do.

The giving of gifts should always be in response to the gift we have already been given through Christ. LFL appreciates those gifts, and we have a responsibility to use them wisely to carry out our mission. Your gifts don’t just stay at the national LFL office, your gifts go on!

Your gifts go on when a family facing a terminal illness reads God’s Love in Human Suffering or a young person looks over Real Love/Real Life and realizes God has a different plan for them than what the world is promoting. Your gifts go on when a young mother, faced with the unexpected death of her husband, picks up In the Hands of God and knows God’s hands are holding her in her grief. Your gifts go on when a couple experiences a miscarriage and a pastor gives them Into His Loving Care, or a single mom turns to Not Alone for strength in the Word.

Your gifts go on when voters, faced with legislation that insults the God of Life, are educated by LFL materials and can defend the sanctity of life in the public square. Your gifts go on when LFL staff are able to speak around the country and educate and encourage others to carry the sword of Life in their daily lives. Your gifts go on when membership remittances are returned to state federations and local chapters who support caring pregnancy centers and individuals who face life issues every day. Your gifts will go on when GOD’S WORD For Life is published and placed in the hands of people hungry for the message of Life that can only be found in the Gospel.

We thank God for your gifts, and the gifts others receive because of your recognition of that one gift, the gift of Salvation through Christ. It’s the true Gift that goes on—For Life.

(Click here to e-mail Karen.)