St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lititz, PA 17543
Our Mission: As Christ’s church, we gather to worship, to grow in faith and to serve our community and our world.
St. Paul Missionaries
Missionary Relationship
- Stephen Deal and Marta Giron are our new missionaries to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Konde Diocese Companion Relationship (Tanzania)
- In 1996 St. Paul Congregational Church
Council approved a Konde Diocese companion partner relationship with the
Lower Susquehanna Synod and the Konde Diocese in Tanzania.
- In late 1996 the Lower Susquehanna Synod
assigned Kanga Lutheran Church to St. Paul as a companion partner
relationship.
- January 1997 Pastor Gene Stuckey at St.
Paul started correspondence with Pastor John Mwaswalo at Kanga Lutheran
Church.
- March 1997 Pastor John Mwaswalo sent a
reply correspondence to St. Paul from Kanga Lutheran Church.
- Remainder of 1997 through late 2000 with
the pastoral leadership changes at St. Paul and in the Konde Diocese no
more correspondence was sent or received till fall of 2000.
- September 2000 Linda Van Til attended the
Lower Susquehanna Synod Companion Congregation Day in York.
- October 2000 with the Konde Diocese
restructing into five districts from the original seven, Pastor Samson
Mwakisu replaced Pastor John Mwaswalo at Kanga Lutheran Church for
pastoral leadership.
- September 2002 Mark Mueller and Ron Van
Til attended the Lower Susquehanna Synod Companion Congregation Day in
York.
- Again with changes at St. Paul in
leadership no correspondence was sent to Kanga Lutheran until March 2003.
- March 2003 St. Paul Youth Group made cards
with their photos attached for Kanga Lutheran Church.
- July 2003 Pastor Linda Hanus and Linda Van
Til attended the Lower Susquehanna Synod Companion Congregation Day in
York.
- July 2003 correspondence along with Youth
Group letters & photos, Nursery Sunday School class letter & photo and
letter & photo from Men in Mission at St. Paul was sent to Kanga Lutheran
Church.
- August 2003 information with photos on
Companion Congregation Day in York was created in a bulletin board
display.
- September 2003 correspondence was sent to
Pastor Samson Mwakisu along with several disposable cameras from St. Paul
to continue the correspondence ties.
- October 2003 one camera was brought back
from Kanga Lutheran Church with the Lower Susquehanna Synod returning
contingent from their Konde Diocese visit.
- October 2003 a bulletin board display was
placed in the narthex of photos from Kanga Lutheran Church brought back by
the LSS returning contingent.
- November 2003 a letter was received
explaining the photos developed in October from Pastor Mesron Simon
Mwakalambile who replaced Pastor Samson Mwakisu at Kanga Lutheran Church.
- December 2003 Christmas Giving Tree items
of pens, markers, highlighters, colors, writing tablets, coloring books,
toiletries and many types of books were collected for Kanga Lutheran
Church.
- March 2004 Linda Van Til attended the
Konde Diocese information meeting for persons interested in attending a
contingent visit to the Konde Diocese from the Lower Susquehanna Synod.
- May 2004 correspondence and two disposable
cameras were sent with Martin Mwakaje, teacher attending Millersville
University when he returned home for a short visit to Tanzania for Kanga
Lutheran Church along with sports equipment for Manow Lutheran Seminary.
- June 2004 Christmas Giving Tree items were
packaged and mailed to Kanga Lutheran Church with correspondence sent to
Pastor Mezron Simon Mwakalambile.
- August 2004 correspondence was received
from Pastor Evangelist Emmanuel Mwakyeja at Kanga Lutheran Church.
- September 2004 correspondence received
from Manow Lutheran Seminary thanking St. Paul for the sports equipment we
donated to the school.
- September 2004 Linda Van Til attended the
Lower Susquehanna Synod Companion Congregation Day in Lancaster.
- October 2004 corresondence was sent along
with the Lower Susquehanna Synod contingent on their visit to the Konde
Diocese.
- December 2004 Letter, Photos & Christmas
Cards sent to Kanga Lutheran Church from St. Paul for Christmas.
- December 2004 Kanga Lutheran letters
received from past several months printed in Epistle.
- January 2005 correspondence from November
30, 2004 received from Evangelist Emmual Mwakjeya at Kanga Lutheran
explaining purchase made from last donation sent from St. Paul.
- February 2005 Epistle article printed
letter received from Kanga.
- March 2005 Correspondence sent to Kanga
Lutheran along with Nave dedication Worship booklet used in October,
pictures of banners and different seasons of the year pulpit and altar
hangings.
- April 2005 Epistle article printed for
letters received in January from Kanga.