The document announces Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry's (LPGM) 20th anniversary celebration to be held on October 10, 2015. It invites all former travelers and supporters to attend special events marking the occasion, including a worship service and reunion. Details of the events will be posted online and in the next newsletter. The document encourages attendees to share their experiences with LPGM and asks how attendees can get involved to accomplish new things through LPGM.

1. Volume 20/Number Two/Spring 2015
This year marks LPGM’s 20th
anniversary! All LPGM
friends and supporters are invited and encouraged to
join us for a special observance of thanksgiving and
hope at a 20th Anniversary Worship Service on
October 10, 2015.
We are also planning to celebrate this
milestone anniversary by inviting all
former travelers to reconnect with us and
each other. How? A reunion!
This LPGM Travelers’ Reunion will
also take place on October 10, 2015.
We are currently confirming the venue
and the timing of these special 20th
anniversary events. We will post details
on our website as soon as details are
available and print more information in the next
Newsletter, too. We hope that many of you will be able
to join us in praising God for the abundant blessings
shared with thousands of deserving people around the
globe through Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry
since 1995.
Maybe you will share pictures. Maybe you’ll swap
stories with someone you just met. Maybe you’ll
answer questions from someone who wants to know
more about LPGM. Details are forthcoming, but we
hope that you’ll mark your calendar today!
As participants on LPGM’s first mission trip to India in
1999, Melissa and I can certainly say it changed our
lives. We met our first sponsored
students, in person, on that trip – a deaf
girl and her younger sister at Siloam. And
we have heard from so many of you who
have not traveled that you, too, are
changed by your involvement in LPGM.
What is YOUR LPGM story?
Who needs to connect or reconnect
with LPGM?
What new things can we accomplish
together in Christ’s name?
Mark you calendar to join us on October 10th
!
Please note, the date is a change from previous communications.
Thanks for your partnership!
Paul Steen, LPGM Development Director
Interested in sharing your LPGM experiences?
JOIN US for a 20th Anniversary Celebration!
Page 2—Message from Executive Director;
Project Education India News; List of Special Gifts
Page 3—Thrivent Grant, Message from LPGM Board Chair
Page 4—Additions to LPGM Board of Directors
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2. special contributions received February 1, 2015 - April 30, 2015
IN MEMORY OF: Remembered by
LORENS Q. BRYNESTAD: Phyllis Brynestad and Family | ANDY CHRISTENSEN: Debra Christensen | MARY JANE HAGEN: Sandra & George Anderson
GRETHE HIFDT: Corinne & Dan Engstrand | ANNELINE OLSON: Dale & Janet Johnson
IN HONOR OF: Recognized by
JANE & DOUG KOONS: Jenny Koons | JANE KOONS: Gudrun & Geoffrey Witrak; Ruth Witrak | VERNE WINTER: Bonnie Winter
Please notify us of any errors so we may correct the oversight | donors@lutheranpartners.org
Dear Friends,
My call as Executive Director of Lutheran Partners in Global
Ministry is coming to an end.
Last August, my family and I moved to Houston, Texas, when
my wife began her call as Senior Pastor of Kinsmen Lutheran
Church. Since then I have commuted to Minneapolis at least
once a month at my own expense. I offered my resignation in
April when the LPGM Executive Committee assessed that the
long-term interests of LPGM would be best served by an
Executive Director based in the Minneapolis office.
I am and will remain committed to LPGM’s life-changing
ministry and I will work to help it achieve the strategic goals
the LPGM Board developed last year. Rest assured that LPGM
maintained its high standards of accountability and reporting
throughout this period, a fact supported by the 2014 Audit, and
will continue to do so through the coming transitions.
There isn’t enough space to name even a fraction of the many
miracles I have had the privilege
of witnessing as Executive
Director, or the many ways my
faith has grown because of my
participation in this ministry.
Sadly, there isn’t time for one
last visit to projects, sponsors,
donors or partners, so please
accept this as my thanks for the
blessings you have brought to
me and my family. The friend-
ships that developed over the
past 4 ½ years will remain close
to my heart.
Thank you for being a
partner in ministry.
Sincerely, your brother in Christ,
Rev. Mark Warpmaeker
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Sponsors of students in the Project Education India program
often wonder what has happened to the students they have
been supporting both financially and through prayer when the
student completes his/her 12th standard education.
LPGM travelers spent a few days at Siloam Girls Boarding Home
in January 2015 and we had the pleasure of meeting five
wardens (like resident assistants) who were once LPGM
sponsored students. They all had gone on to extended study
and now have the responsibility of taking care of other LPGM
sponsored students. While we were there, each of the wardens
wrote a letter to their former sponsor and we had the privilege
of delivering the letters when we returned to the U.S.
Your gift of sponsorship is truly making a difference, one
student at a time!
If you use the automatic payment option from your bank
to make donations to LPGM, please take a few moments to
make certain the bank is using our new address so your
contributions are not delayed. THANK YOU!
5200 Willson Road, Suite 280, Minneapolis MN 55424
Project Education India News
By Mary Peterson, LPGM Project Administrator
Attention PEI Sponsors … to get more stories like the one above,
send a message to sponsors@lutheranpartners.org

3. Earlier this year, Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry received a $25,000 grant from the Thrivent Financial Foundation. The grant will help
LPGM accelerate our strategic plan as we engage new congregations as well as more youth, young adults, and young families in global
mission. LPGM is thrilled to work with the Thrivent Foundation once again.
We quickly put some of these funds to work as we launched our “Friends” programs to sustain our more mature programs – English+ and
the ALC Community College in India, and Village Savings & Loan and Emmanuel Health Center in the Central African Republic.
One new element of this grant is Matching Gifts. Any new participant in one of the “Friends” programs, as well as new contributors to
LPGM’s “Green Shoots” general fund, can have their gifts matched on a 2:1 basis. For every donation of $2 by a new donor to LPGM,
Thrivent will provide $1. Now is a great time to help sustain these
life-changing programs along with our partners. Make your donation
go further – learn about Friends and Green Shoots as well as donate
online at www.lpgm.org.
Thrivent Financial Foundation:
The grant is part of the foundation’s Lutheran Grant Program. This program
is designed to assist Lutheran organizations and those they serve in achieving
economic security and sustainability. In 2014, the program distributed almost
$1 million in grants. Eligible grant applicants include: Lutheran congregations,
regional divisions of the three largest church bodies, small church bodies, high
schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, camps, campus ministries, social
ministry organizations, and other independent Lutheran organizations or LGPM Board members and Executive Director Mark Warpmaeker
institutions. receive the first installment of the Thrivent grant in February 2015
LPGM and Thrivent Foundation Announce Matching Gifts Grant
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As you read on page 2 in the note from LPGM Executive Director, Mark Warpmaeker, LPGM is amidst some significant changes.
On behalf of the LPGM Board of Directors and staff, I want to express sincere thanks to Pastor Mark for his dedicated and loyal service to
LPGM since he joined the staff in October 2010. Mark’s position was technically a brand new venture for the organization. He swiftly eased
into the role, next to founders Betty and Gordon Olson, and has worked tirelessly to continue the mission of LPGM. At this juncture, Mark
continues to be dedicated to the greater good of the organization by offering to work through a transition time, and again we are thankful.
The transition, however, is not a known commodity as this is going to publication. Mark is working with the Executive Committee to
determine a reasonable time frame for which his leadership will move through the process of handing the reins to a new Executive
Director; however, we are keenly aware that there may, in fact, be no physical overlap between Mark and the next person in the position.
We are assembling a search committee that will manage the process of seeking potential candidates
for the position of Executive Director. The search committee will make its recommendation to the Board
of Directors. The Board of Directors holds the ultimate hiring authority.
LPGM staff members are committed to keep the organization functioning by taking on extra duties until
a new Executive Director is in place. Mark will continue to be a part of these collaborations for as long
as appropriate and jointly determined.
Aware that we are not the first organization to go through such a challenge, we take some comfort in
knowing we are not alone in this endeavor. We call upon you, our loyal friends and partners, to offer
prayerful support for the situation. If you have expertise in, or know of someone who works in interim
situations, please contact me via email: office@lutheranpartners.org, about the possibility of being
involved in the LPGM transition process. We all hope and pray that LPGM will survive through this
unknown time and emerge an even stronger and more vibrant organization promoting global outreach.
A word about LPGM Leadership … from Board Chair, Rev. Mark Holman

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Rob Johnson received a
BA from the College of
Wooster.
Rob is a teacher at Breck
School. He teaches Religion
in the Upper School, and in
the Lower School he
teaches Project Adventure,
a high ropes-based, team-
building curriculum. He also is the Sunday School
Coordinator and Confirmation Coordinator at Trinity
Episcopal Church.
Rob tries to spend time with his brilliant wife,
Wendy, when she’s not busy with her own full plate.
He also occasionally gets to see his kids: Luke when
he comes home from college, Josh in the halls of the
school as a Breck student, and Rebekah on the figure
skating rink. When not at Breck, he spends time with
the international students living with their family,
and great neighbors.
Kyle Rudser grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, and went
on to St. Olaf College where he competed for the Swimming
and Diving team and earned a BA in Chemistry and
Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics in 2002. He
went to graduate school in biostatistics at the University of
Washington for an MS in 2005 and PhD in 2007. After
graduation he stayed in Seattle as a Post-doctoral Senior
Fellow with the Data Coordinating Center at the University
of Washington supporting the Resuscitation Outcomes
Consortium, an international network supported primarily
by the National Institutes of Health to study resuscitation
from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.
In 2008 he joined the faculty in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of
Minnesota with an additional appointment in the Clinical and Translational
Science Institute at the U of M. He is active with several national and international
professional organizations and has participated on numerous Data and Safety
Monitoring Boards for clinical trials. He has traveled internationally numerous
times, some for pleasure and others for a site visit or conference.
He lives in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and is a member of Roseville Lutheran
Church with his wife Annalisa and two sons.
At the April 24, 2015, Board of Directors meeting, we thanked Dave Dynneson and Rev. Joel Quie for their service as LPGM Board mem-
bers as their terms came to an end. Two new board members were elected at that same meeting ...