For all Lutherans For Frontline Volunteers!
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – April 14, 2025
During this LFL Frontline Call, the Life Team at Trinity Lutheran Church in Auburn, Illinois—Marlene Rahe – Life Team Leader—will share details about their special project called 1-2-3 Cards. It’s as easy as 1-2-3! 1. Pick up a card. 2. Write a little note. 3. Drop it in the mail. That’s it! Easy peasy! Come learn how you can start this card ministry in your own congregation.
Dave Probst, LFL’s Director of Development, will share information about our upcoming 2025 Step Up 4 Life fundraising campaign and give an update on our growing ministry efforts at Lutherans For Life. Learn how you can affirm the value of all human life while participating in our Step Up 4 Life campaign from May 11-June 24. Once again, there are a variety of ways to participate. You may host a congregational 4 Life Day, plan a Frontline Step Up 4 Life Event, get a team together to Step Up 4 Life, or make a direct donation to LFL. Dave will highlight vital resources and materials that you can use to successfully Step Up 4 Life and support the incredible ministry endeavors of LFL in 2025.
Virginia Flo, LFL’s Director of Volunteer Relations, will give us an update on their activities and future plans.
Pastor Michael Salemink, Executive Director of Lutherans For Life, will share an opening devotion and a closing prayer.
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – February 10, 2025
During this LFL Frontline Zoom Call, members of the Yellowstone Valley LFL Chapter #331, in Billings, Montana, will share how they have taken diaper drives to the next level. The diaper project started in 2016 when LaVie Health (the local crisis pregnancy center) referred “Rachel” to the Life Chapter. From this first gift of diapers to one mom has come their current program of providing diapers to three families for a three-year period. They also provide a packet of wipes, a frozen meal, and a children’s book to each family each month. Watch this Zoom call recording and get the details for this marvelous project. More details are also available on pages 17-18 of the January-February 2025 edition of “Directions.”
Lowell Highby, Director of Communications for Lutherans For Life, will highlight LFL’s newest printed resources, of which there are many, and point out some that seem to be the most impactful with the Frontline based on their demand. Besides these resources on many life issues, we have LifeDate, Directions, Life Quotes, Life Notes, and other publications to help you in your life ministries. Lowell will show you where to find these, and if you are not receiving them already, you will now know how to do so! Finally, he will walk you through our varied online communication platforms where you will find the latest and the greatest that LFL has to offer.
Virginia Flo, Director of Volunteer Relations, will give updates on their activities.
Pastor Michael Salemink, Executive Director of Lutherans For Life, will share an opening devotion and a closing prayer.
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – October 14, 2023
Dottie Kuerschner, President of the Fond du Lac Life Chapter # 304 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, will share some novel ideas for celebrating a Life Sunday. Tune in to hear what they did that immediately attracted more people to their table for meaningful conversation and the chance to distribute their life-affirming materials. Since the Volunteer Relations Team is always looking to expand the Life vision, one of us suggested some additional “props”. Please join us to hear some new ideas. And please plan on contributing your Life Sunday ideas as well.
Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life, will give us a preview of our 2025 Life Week. A tremendous number of hours are invested each year doing research, planning and writing the devotions, the activity sheets and fact sheets, and confirming presenters with expertise on a variety of life topics. Tune in as Michelle walks us through the resources that will allow us to involve our congregations in these wonderful educational opportunities. Learn to navigate the Life Week webpages so we can use these materials any time in the coming year to deepen and expand the life ministry in our congregations.
Life Team Training has been updated, streamlined, and computerized! Virginia Flo, Director of Volunteer Relations, will review what the new training program looks like and how to use it. This new online training will be available for those wanting to start a new Life Team at their church as well as for those who are already a trained and certified Life Team who wish to review the training materials or train new team members. The new online system will be populated with the most up-to-date information and resources which will benefit Life Teams, Life Advocates and Life Chapters alike. It will also provide easy access to new training and interactive programs that will be provided by the Volunteer Relations Team. Join the Frontline Call to learn more about this new valuable resource.
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – July 8, 2024
Carol Thompson, the Life Team Leader at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado, will discuss the Life Team-sponsored movie night they held at their church. They showed the movie Lifemark, an incredible movie supporting the blessing of adoption. They provided pizza, drinks, dessert, and free babysitting. Sixty-five people attended and shared in learning about an important life topic.
Erika Peterson, the Lutherans For Life Events Coordinator, will preview the three LFL Regional Conferences to be held this fall. This is important information for all of us. She will also discuss Spotlight on Life, our LFL Speakers program.
Virginia Flo, Director of Volunteer Relations, will give us an update on the Frontline Playbook—Belonging. This wonderful booklet, written in a step-by-step format, has now been mailed to our Frontline. We pray that it will aid the Frontline in using our abundant life-affirming resources for life events in their own churches.
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – April 8, 2024
Frontline Call – Do you know what you may be missing?
These calls are to keep you informed of happenings at Lutherans For Life that may impact you and your life ministry. Also, project ideas are shared by other Frontline members, and you can ask them directly to relate how they implemented their special project. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending this online event designed especially for you. We hope to see you there!
During this Frontline Call, recorded on April 8, 2024, Dave Probst, LFL’s Director of Development, will share the details about our upcoming 2024 Step Up 4 Life fundraising campaign. Learn how you can witness to and affirm the value of human life by participating in our Step Up 4 Life campaign from May 12 through June 24. There are a variety of ways to participate: You may host a congregational 4 Life Day, plan a Frontline Step Up 4 Life Event, or make a direct donation to LFL. Dave will highlight vital resources and materials that you can use to successfully Step Up 4 Life and support the mission of LFL at the same time.
Robert Wegner, the President of the Peoria (Illinois) Area LFL #268, will share with us a great new twist on their diaper drive project. Besides collecting diapers for their regional pregnancy resource centers, they collect packages of adult protective underwear, such as the Depend® brand, to donate to local nursing homes. Disposable paper bed pads and wipes are also received throughout the year and donated. Dr. Geistfeld will also discuss a related project that provides adult bibs for seniors. National Senior Citizens Day is on August 21, 2024, but you may honor and minster to your seniors any day you wish!
Virginia Flo, LFL’s Director of Volunteer Relations, will give us an update on the Frontline Playbook Project. These playbooks will help the Frontline plan For Life events using both new and refurbished LFL resources with a reenergized promotional approach.
If you have projects you would like to share or questions to be answered, email info@lutheransforlife.org or call the LFL national office at 888.364.LIFE (5433) or 515.382.2077.
LFL Frontline Zoom Call – January 8, 2024
Topics in this LFL Frontline Zoom Call:
Infant Mourning Garden: Kay Schultz and Debbie Schuette, members of Zion Lutheran Wayside, Greenleaf, Wisconsin, will describe how they planned, built, and now use their Infant Mourning Garden to reach others with hope and healing. Families who have lost a child for any reason may find peace and solace there as they sit quietly in the garden, knowing their Heavenly Father is present.
Preparing for Life Week 2024: Michelle Bauman, Director of Y4Life and chair of the Life Week team, will share this year’s theme, resources, and opportunities available to you and your team as you prepare to celebrate and uphold life January 14-20, 2024.
If you have projects you would like to share or questions to be answered, email info@lutheransforlife.org or call the LFL national office at 888.364.LIFE (5433) or 515.382.2077.
LFL Frontline Call – July 10, 2023
Life Ministry Playbook
Rev. Jeff Duncan, former Assistant Director of Volunteer Relations, leads a session titled “The Life Ministry Playbook.” Lutherans For Life produces great resources. Are you using them all or many or any? This simple playbook format will outline ways that your life ministry can engage your congregation, your membership, and your community to equip and support the life issues you face. We will be looking at the end-of-life issues that confront us all and give examples that can be duplicated for most other life issues as well.
(Note 11/3/23 | The Frontline Playbook concept provided in this video has been updated. Read more: The Frontline Playbook)
Life Sunday
Beth Kraegel, President of the Dupage County LFL #083 shares how their group equipped congregations and pastors for a Life Sunday commemoration. Their encouragement and efforts resulted in several dozen churches using LFL Life Sunday materials. Learn how an LFL Life Chapter or Life Team can be an effective For Life witness while also providing material support.
If you have projects you would like to share or questions to be answered, email info@lutheransforlife.org or call the LFL national office at 888.364.LIFE (5433) or 515.382.2077.
LFL Frontline Call – April 10, 2023
We invite you to watch this important session as we have good news to share that affects you directly.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we are providing unique opportunities for your Life Chapter, Life Team, or Life Advocate to engage your congregations in both recognizing this event and help LFL further our ministry provided for you.
Along with regular LFL updates, we will share some exciting developments in volunteer relations that will enhance your For Life work and engage new life ministries in churches across the country. We ask you to help multiply those efforts which are vital parts of a healthy life ministry.
May the Lord bless your life-affirming efforts as you strive to share God’s love For Life to a world in need of hearing it!
LFL Frontline Call – January 9, 2023
Life Week 2023 runs from January 15-21, 2023, and four Zoom gatherings on specific life issue topics will be offered. Everyone in Frontline Life Chapters and Life Teams will benefit from knowing how to use these and prior Zoom events. All are appropriate for actively engaging your congregations and community throughout 2023! Join this one hour Zoom Frontline Conference Call and you’ll take home plenty of ideas to keep your group engaged in 2023 and beyond!
LFL Frontline Call – October 10, 2022
Life Team members from Trinity Lutheran Church, Auburn, Illinois, describe their Son Shine project—a ministry to shut-ins and the recently bereaved.
Rev. Jeff Duncan also leads Life Team Training – Facet #6 | Resourced – As a trusted, multi-faceted, consistent, unified, Gospel-motivated ministry of your local congregation, the Life Team ought to be “resourced” by that congregation. No mission group operates in our world without being funded. Resourced Life Teams don’t worry about the support of financial or other assets because they know their work of equipping the members and their neighbors in all areas of the life arena are part of how the Lord of the Church brings the Gospel of forgiveness, hope, and restoration to those in need!
Download: Life Team Training 6 – Resourced PowerPoint
LFL Frontline Call – July 11, 2022
Virginia Flo, Director of Volunteer Relations for Lutherans For Life, will lead a session titled, “How Can I Support My Local Pregnancy Resource Center?”
As of June 24, 2022, we live in a “Post-Roe World.” Thanks be to God, the SCOTUS decision ended an era of federal regulations on abortion. Once again, the decision has moved to the local and state level. That is also where abortion vulnerable women need Godly and appropriate support, information, and, most especially, the hope found only in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus who is the author of all life! You are encouraged to support life by supporting those who seek out your local pregnancy resource center (PRC). But how do you know this is the proper center to support? What questions might be asked to assure your support goes to centers that are biblically-based and do not refer clients to abortion facilities? What education programs guide women (and men) beyond the pregnancy? What are ways you can become active to volunteer and help? Learn basic skills to interview and support your local PRC and thus become a greater ‘Gospel-motivated voice for Life’ in your community!
Download PowerPoint: How to Support Your Local Pregnancy Center
Pastor Jeff Duncan, Assistant Director of Volunteer Relations for LFL, will present Life Team Training on “Facet #5 – Trusted.”
In Facet #5 of Life Team training, we discover why all Life Teams seek to be Trusted by their church leadership, members, and community. Reliability, confidence, and dependability are important aspects of an effective and believable Life Team. How will you bring this assurance to the church leadership and community you serve even as you seek to be that Gospel-motivated voice of truth For Life?
LFL Frontline Call – April 11, 2022
LFL Frontline Call – January 10, 2022
LFL Frontline Call – July 12, 2021
Speakers:
A presentation on website effectiveness and usage for Life Teams/Chapters with Roni Grad, Catalina Lutheran Church Life Team. He will discuss website effectiveness for Life Teams/Life Chapters and how to organize/implement a Team/Chapter page for information equipping.
Pastor Jeff Duncan will lead a Life Team training session on one of the 9-Facets of Life Teams. This month: Gospel-motivated. LFL wants to promote these opportunities for learning and encouragement of your Life Team/Life Chapter, especially now in these difficult times.
The last two minutes of each presentation are for Q & A from listeners.
Frontline Call – January 11, 2021 – Life Week 2021