LWML Ohio District - Stamps For Mission

The LWML Ohio District Human Care Committee is promoting a new project of collecting used/canceled postage stamps from your incoming mail. We ask for your participation in this project unless your zone/society is already using this method of stamp collecting for missions.

SIMPLE DIRECTIONS: Cut the stamps from envelopes allowing � inch margin or more around the stamp. The stamp may not be damaged and the perforations around the stamp must be perfect. You need not trim the stamp; we have someone who trims and sorts the stamps for the stamp collector.

Do NOT remove stamps from envelopes, albums, older postcards and envelopes. An �OLD� postcard is usually from 1930 or before.

MOST VALUABLE STAMPS �are commemorative, foreign, and stamps of denominations larger than 39 cents.

IT ONLY MAKES SENSE �that you purchase and use commemorative stamps for your personal mailing. When purchasing stamps, ask the postal staff for commemorative stamps. Colorful and large stamps are desirable.

ONE MORE STEP: Please take your stamps to zone events and give them to your zone president. She will bring them to district board of directors meetings and give them to the Vice President of Human Care Lois Rosebrock. They will be trimmed and given to Vice President of Gospel Outreach Janet Vollmer who will deliver them to a stamp collector in Fort Wayne. (Janet likes to shop in Fort Wayne.) The funds received will be applied to a mission project.

GET HELP! Involve your congregation! Have a box for stamps located in your church and publicize this in your bulletins and news letters. Following are suggestions for publication:

THERE IS A BOX �for �Stamps for Missions� in the narthex near (fill in location). Clipping and saving canceled commemorative and foreign postage stamps is an easy way to participate in a mission project sponsored by the Lutheran Women�s Missionary League (LWML). The membership of our congregation is encouraged to assist in this project. FIRST, buy commemorative stamps for your personal mailing so that the recipients may clip the stamps on the mail you send. SECONDLY, cut the stamps from your incoming mail, leaving at least � inch margin or more and place them in the �stamps for missions� box. The stamps are sold to a collector and the funds used for missions.

WASTEBASKET VS. CLIPPING AND SAVING � That�s your choice to make on first class mail coming into your home and business. The canceled stamps on incoming mail can be sold to stamp collectors and funds realized from this project sponsored by the Lutheran Women�s Missionary League Ohio District (LWML) are used for missions. Cut the canceled postage stamps leaving at least a � inch margin or more. Deposit them in the box located (fill in). Commemorative, foreign and stamps of higher than 39 cents value are desirable. Thank you for considering helping the LWML in this mission project.