• Sherman Park Gathering Place is a ministry to senior adults in our area.
  
  
• Seminary Internship Ministry was resumed in 2004-05 with LSTC. CDLC gives supervision by the pastor and support from a lay committee to third year seminarians. Through this ministry the congregation is serving the larger Church in its preparation of rostered church leaders. Maggie Cumings is the intern for 2007-08. Prior to seminary she served as a LVC staff at Faith Lutheran. Following that year, she organized the community night program at St. Paul’s Lutheran on Wisconsin Avenue.
  
  
• The Third World Handcrafts Shoppe is a global mission effort of CDLC. For nineteen it has been marketing fair-trade goods from around the world and returns its profits to global mission projects. Thirty volunteers from area churches tend the shop and to take the store on the road for off-site educational and sales events. Each year TWHS contributes $20,000-25,000 to global mission projects. Its annual sales of $75,000-$80,000 support for a year 75-80 families of four living in developing countries.
  
  
• Quilting Ministry produces at least 150 quilts each year for Lutheran World Relief. Women of the congregation also prepare over 100 activity kits and boxes of bar soap that are shipped for use by refugees.
  
  
• Partnering with Divine Word Lutheran, CDLC sponsored through LSS a Somali-Bantu refugees, assisting a family of six with housing, financial support, education, child care, general guidance, and transportation for a year.
  
  
• Congregation sent five volunteers to Mississippi in February 2006. They worked for a week in housing restoration in the areas wrecked by Katrina.
  
  
• Congregation supported the service of Pastor Lowell Timm for two weeks in September 2005 when he served on a Mental Health Team in the shelters in Houma and Thibodaux, Louisiana.
  
  
• CDLC has maintained a connection with the Lutheran Seminary in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pastor Timm taught there during his sabbatical in 1999.

• Sherman Park Gathering Place is a ministry to senior adults in our area.
  
  
• Seminary Internship Ministry was resumed in 2004-05 with LSTC. CDLC gives supervision by the pastor and support from a lay committee to third year seminarians. Through this ministry the congregation is serving the larger Church in its preparation of rostered church leaders. Maggie Cumings is the intern for 2007-08. Prior to seminary she served as a LVC staff at Faith Lutheran. Following that year, she organized the community night program at St. Paul’s Lutheran on Wisconsin Avenue.
  
  
• The Third World Handcrafts Shoppe is a global mission effort of CDLC. For nineteen it has been marketing fair-trade goods from around the world and returns its profits to global mission projects. Thirty volunteers from area churches tend the shop and to take the store on the road for off-site educational and sales events. Each year TWHS contributes $20,000-25,000 to global mission projects. Its annual sales of $75,000-$80,000 support for a year 75-80 families of four living in developing countries.
  
  
• Quilting Ministry produces at least 150 quilts each year for Lutheran World Relief. Women of the congregation also prepare over 100 activity kits and boxes of bar soap that are shipped for use by refugees.
  
  
• Partnering with Divine Word Lutheran, CDLC sponsored through LSS a Somali-Bantu refugees, assisting a family of six with housing, financial support, education, child care, general guidance, and transportation for a year.
  
  
• Congregation sent five volunteers to Mississippi in February 2006. They worked for a week in housing restoration in the areas wrecked by Katrina.
  
  
• Congregation supported the service of Pastor Lowell Timm for two weeks in September 2005 when he served on a Mental Health Team in the shelters in Houma and Thibodaux, Louisiana.
  
  
• CDLC has maintained a connection with the Lutheran Seminary in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pastor Timm taught there during his sabbatical in 1999.