Lutheran AIDS Network

What are Lutherans doing to observe World AIDS Day this year? LANET has assembled this sample of events and resources that you may find useful.

Please send other events and materials to list here to: info@lutheranaids.net or submit them through the "Contact Us" link at the left.

Event: California Lutheran University
Center for Equality & Justice and The Lily of The Valley Endeavor
Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
The CEJ will host a panel of HIV-positive speakers with a Q&A session and then a presentation by the local organization who funds AIDS orphanages in Africa, the Lily of The Valley Endeavor (LoVE).
More information:
http://www.callutheran.edu/cej/vccsj/calendar/event_detail.php?event_id=95

Event: Hollywood Lutheran Church
Hollywood, CA, USA
The Hollywood Community will gather to commemorate World AIDS Day with a multimedia musical event.
More information:
http://www.topix.net/content/prweb/2008/11/hollywood-community-marks-200...

Event: Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
The annual Service of Holy Communion and Litany of Healing to mark World AIDS Day will be held Saturday, Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church, Mt. Airy, PA.
More information:
http://www.ministrylink.org/article/world-aids-day-service-nov-29/

Appeal: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)'s Global Hunger and Development Appeal (GHDA) has issued an appeal to help support HIV/AIDS prevention work.
Material: Bulletin insert example
www.elcic.ca/GHDA/documents/WorldAIDSDay.pdf

Materials and resources: ELCA HIV/AIDS web site
Ideas for your congregation:
http://archive.elca.org/aids/december1/

Worship resources, including prayers, songs, hymns, and liturgical materials:
http://archive.elca.org/aids/worship/

Prayers:
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Justice/Poverty-Ministries/HIV-a...

Information and ideas: Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
http://www.e-alliance.ch/en/s/hivaids/world-aids-day/

Worship service: "Leadership: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise"
United Methodists Committee on Relief
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/media/pdf%20files/wadworshipservice08.pdf

Bulletin/Service Materials: "For the Healing of AIDS: 52-Week Church Bulletin Mediation"
The Balm in Gilead
http://www.balmingilead.org/programs/weekofprayer2008/FortheHealingofAID...

Prayers: General Board of Discipleship - The United Methodist Church
http://www.gbod.org/ready/worldaidsworshipsauls.html

Posters and brochures: World AIDS Campaign - Youth Materials
http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/en/Key-events/World-AIDS-Day/World-AIDS...

Web resource: AIDS Clock and World AIDS Map
Watch a clock count up the number of persons living with HIV. Watch a map of the world resize countries relative to the number of people with HIV living in each one.
http://www.unfpa.org/aids_clock/