Actions Mightier Than Boastings

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ACTIONS MIGHTIER THAN BOASTINGS tells the story of the Lutheran Ladies Aid in rural Iowa-Minnesota, 1930-1959. “I don’t believe young women of the church today appreciate what hard work it was once,” says Gwen. “But we used to have such a lot fun! Hard work, that’s how we made our fun.” The Aid organized their congregation’s social life, raised their monies, and carried out a ministry to the wider community. From fundraising to cooking to providing janitorial products and services-no matter what work a congregation needed to accomplish-the Ladies Aid planned, ordered, and executed. In so doing they became repositories for the traditions of their Lutheran faith. Each and every living Ladies Aid member knows two things: one, that her Ladies Aid-the Lutheran Aid predating the mega-mergers in the second one half of the 20th Century-is right away liable for today’s Lutheran church; and two, that the way to preserve the church is to ensure today’s generation knows the story.

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