How to Use Your Retirement Account to Make Gifts to Charity
A Guide to Qualified Charitable Distributions from Your IRA
The Story Behind the Smile
Follow one girl's journey to our partner's safe house, and learn how it's now helping raise TWO empowered, educated girls.
Empowering Minds, Sustaining Earth: The Surprising Link Between Climate Change and Educating Girls
Education has long been heralded as a catalyst for societal progress, but its role in the fight against climate change is often overlooked. When we invest in the education of girls in low-income nations, we empower them with knowledge, skills, and confidence.
LPGM continues to meet accountability standards of Charities Review Council
LPGM meets all the accountability standards prescribed by the Charities Review Council. That's an accomplishment we are eager to share with you!
What We Need to Learn from HBO's "Savior Complex"
As the White, male executive director of another Christian nonprofit focusing on low- to middle-income countries, I watched this documentary in part to learn how organizations like LPGM can better walk alongside our partners and their programs. Here are some of my takeaways.
Students Find Success After Graduation
More and more of our sponsored students are qualifying for and choosing to pursue higher education following graduation. Thanks to LPGM's Extended Study Scholarship Fund, higher education is possible!
Library Refresh
Highlights from library refreshes, as we launch the third year of a three-year campaign to restock library shelves in India.
A Reflection from Guatemala...
A re-published blogpost written by Ashley Andersen, whose family traveled with a group from Our Savior's Lutheran Church (Faribault, Minn.) to Guatemala with LPGM.
LPGM Celebrates the Churches in Cameroon and Central Africa
On July 8 & 9, 2023, Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry was part of a two-day celebration to remember the individuals who were eager to share the gospel 100 years ago
Your unrestricted gifts help us respond to unexpected challenges and opportunities
The need for safe housing for girls has been even greater in Tanzania since the pandemic, as the rates of child marriage have skyrocketed globally. When Esuvat told us Fofana’s story, it broke my heart.
Behind the Scenes - LPGM Board of Directors holds Annual Meeting and Strategic Planning Retreat
Highlights 22-23
Enjoy a few highlights from our partners' six boarding homes, where sponsors like you support nearly 1,300 students.
Celebrating International Women's Day
In March, LPGM’s global partners celebrated International Women’s Day in a variety of ways.
A "Team" Approach to Sponsorship
Three friends from the Chatfield, Minnesota area have together sponsored girls through Project Education India since 2007.
Sponsorship Rates Increasing in 2023
We're making additional investments to better support students
Your Year-End Gift will Help Keep Girls Safe and in School
We are so grateful that the Nelson siblings have committed a lead gift of $40,500 toward this important goal. They have been a part of LPGM since the start, and joyfully give this gift in memory of their mother. They invite you to join them in providing access to quality education to people on the margins – especially women and girls.
WALC Session 1: A Letter from Rob Cahill, CCFC Co-founder
Rob Cahill shares an update on WALC Session 1, 2022, the first in-person WALC since 2019.
Dinesh's New Lease on Life
Dinesh is an example of how Timothy Center for Women & Children's Empowerment - with support from LPGM donors - is helping children find hope and chart a future.
"Home in the Heart of God"
Pastor Paul Pettersen and his spouse Lisa led a group of teens from Mount Calvary Lutheran Church (Excelsior, Minn.) to India the summer of 2001. Here, he shares excerpts from his journal.
21 Years Later, India Travelers Unite
Travelers from LPGM's first youth trip to India gathered for a 21st anniversary weekend.
Travelers Reflect on their Time in Guatemala
In the summer of 2022, LPGM hosted two trips to visit our partner, Community Cloud Forest Conservation in Guatemala. Here, a few travelers share their reflections and some favorite pictures.
Travelers See Power of Safe House in Tanzania Firsthand
My congregation is a sponsor of the Safe House program—Eripoto (“Security” in Maa)—in Tanzania, but I don’t think any of us really understood the need. That’s why I joined a group of six women who traveled to Tanzania with LPGM in September to see the programs firsthand.
You Open Doors Through English+
With 22 official languages, and 30 languages with more than 1 million speakers across India, English has become the unifying language of government and commerce across the diverse nation. Thanks to your support of English+, students in 50 primary schools of the Arcot Lutheran Church are given more access to English education.
