Commissionon SpecialMinistries

WELS Special Ministries will help

youreach your community with the

Gospel

Your church has somethingto offer your community

that no one else is doing for them

WELS Special Ministries materials

are great for outreach!

Have your church’s website meet criteria for the blind with internet readers

Advertise that your church can provide large print worship resources.

Offer to bring a blind person to church, do errands for them or come with them to a social event

Help a visually impaired neighbor obtain the free braille and large print materials from WELS

Offer to email your church’s worship folder’s digital file to the blind to convert to Braille

Invite visually impaired people to church and sit with them to explain what they can’t see

Outreach to people who are visually impaired:

Does your church’s website plainly say whether your church is “looped,” has assistive listening devices or interpreted services?

Provide printed sermons or Bible study material or captioned videos on your website

Obtain an interpreter whenever you know a deaf person will attend a wedding, funeral or Sunday worship

Outreach to people who are deaf or hard of hearing

NEW: Through “Video Remote Interpreting”

(VRI) even isolated WELS

congregations can serve a deaf worshiper who signs.

Start a Jesus Cares Ministries Bible class and invite local group homes to bring their residents

Have your teens start a New Friends group and invite community teens with intellectual / developmental disabilities to come

Start a Special Needs Family Network to support parents whose children have special needs

Start a social group for young men and women with higher functioning Autism (Aspergers) to get together

Offer respite care on a regular basis to a neighbor

Outreach to people with an intellectual or developmental disability

Have a group from your church do visitation and devotions for people who will never come to your church!

Adopt a homebound neighbor! Offer respite care or a support

group for caregivers! Parish nurses within your

congregation can offer neighborhood outreach through community health fairs

Outreach to homebound and nursing homes

Send a Spiritual Deployment Kit to someone in service

Befriend a neighbor whose spouse is deployed

Outreach to military families

Train a group to bring the Word to your local jail

Become a Christian penpal or Bible course quiz corrector for prisoners

Outreach to prisoners

WELS Special Ministries equips lay people for

community outreach throughJail Ministry Team

Training

Support his desire to get Chaplain Certification and serve the community as chaplain for the local police, fire, or health care facility.

Keep him and his family encouraged by using Care Committee for Called Worker materials

Tune up your pastor for outreach

Start a Christian support group!

Outreach to people who struggle and seek help

NEW: Addressing Internet porn temptation and addiction

“It teaches us to say, “No!’ to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled…lives.”

-Titus 2:12

Conquerors through Christ offers a Lutheran, Biblical,

Christ-centered path of hope

“Confess your sins to one another and pray for each other in order that you may be healed.”

-James 5:16

A new website:www.conquerorsthroughchrist.net

Commissionon SpecialMinistries