About the Guyana Mission Network
The Guyana Mission Network is a program of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 700 Snelling Ave S, St. Paul, Minnesota 55116 USA. GMN provides financial support for pastors and other church workers and seminarians and projects of congregations and the wider church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana. We invite persons to make contributions to the Guyana Mission Network. Contributions are tax deductible.
We invite you to send contributions payable to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church with a note in the Memo line saying "Guyana," and send it in U.S. dollars to Guyana Mission Network, 1079 Goodrich Ave., Saint Paul, MN 55105-3135. If contributions are sent from outside the U.S. they may be drawn on an international bank provided they are in U.S. dollars.
We also provide news and information about the work of the church in Guyana, about individual laypersons or church workers, and news about significant matters that are happening in Guyana. If we have your email address you will receive periodic newsletters. If you do not have email, we will send some newsletters by postal mail. Send us your email address please! Look to this website for up-to-the date information about the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana.
What contributions support
We also receive funds to support projects and/or ministries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana which donors designate. Examples of this support include:
- Parsonage and Church renovation
- Support of community outreach work of some of the parishes
- Theological and biblical study resources for those studying for the diaconate in Guyana.
- Supplementing of ELCG Pastors' salaries
- Sending Bibles for the Christian education department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
- Youth camp support
The Service Book and Hymnal: We were also responsible for the editing and publishing of the Lutheran Service Book and Hymnal that is being used in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana since 1993. We have recently taken on repair of a few of the hymnals. They take significant wear in the tropical Guyana climate.
Leading our efforts
GMN Coordinators:
The Rev. Paul Tidemann, former pastor of Redeemer, Campbellville and retired ELCA Lutheran pastor having served for 25 years as pastor of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Rev. Dr. Winston Persaud, also former pastor of Redeemer, Campbellville, who is a professor at Wartburg Lutheran Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa.
GMN Advisors:
Dr. Brian Rajendra Beekie, professor and insurance consultant in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ms. Marilyn Harder, Nurse Anaesthetist, St. John's Hospital, Maplewood, Minnesota
The Rev. Dr. Hemchand Gossai, professor, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
The Rev. Karen Hofstad, Pastor, Augustana Lutheran Church, Cumberland, Wisconsin
The Rev. Dr. Lynne Lorenzen, Professor, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Rev. Dr. Randy Nelson, Professofr (retired), Luther Theological Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Rev. Chaitram Prashad, pastor, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Des Moines, Iowa
Mr. Herman Sealey, Civil Engineer, California Dept. of Transportation, Antioch, California
Links
Click on these links to find out about the mission of the Lutheran church in Guyana, about other resources on global mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana and with Guyanese in North America:
http://www.elcguyana.org/home.htm - the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
http://archive.elca.org/globalmission - Global Mission in the ELCA
http://ministryamongguyanese.org/index.html - Ministry Among Guyanese in New York Lutheran Synod
http://www.lutheransonline.com/HTLCEO - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, East Orange, New Jersey
http://www.guyana.org - Guyana News & Information including links to Guyana newspapers