LWQ Winter 2010

Winter 2010 21st Century Family

As a teen, I was a voracious reader — not of books but magazines. Ironically, I never knew the very magazine you hold in your hand existed until I visited a neighboring church for twice-monthly youth group meetings.

Although my childhood church had two active LWML groups (daytime and evening), and we celebrated LWML Sunday each year, copies of the Quarterly were invisible to the rest of the congregation. My best guess is that only “members” of the LWML societies were permitted to read the magazine; it went from their LWML meeting into someone’s purse and then was hidden away at home.

It took a visit to another LCMS congregation for me to discover copies of the Lutheran Woman’s Quarterly on a sharing rack. “Wow, a magazine for Lutheran women! When did that happen?” I grabbed a copy and started reading it during breaks in my youth group meeting until, after encouragement from the church’s secretary, I took copies home with me instead of replacing them on the racks.

Years passed. My high school youth group morphed into a college/career young adults group, and I continued to devour those “giveaway” copies of the LWQ, watching the photos of the LWML Presidents change over the years … until I married and moved away to a new life in a new place with another congregation — but one without an LWML.

Easy fix: start talking with other women, pull together a steering committee, get an LWML group going, and … order copies of the Quarterly. “Ah, finally I’ll have my own official copy!”

And at last, the Quarterlies arrived in the mail.

Magazine now in hand! Can you guess what page I jumped to read?

[Click to see the back inside cover PDF for the rest of the story.]

Nancy Graf Peters
Editor-in-Chief
editor@lwml.org

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