Lutheran World Relief Resources
Videos
Please reserve one month in advance with an alternate reservation date. Your only cost is to share the video with others and then send it back to LWR Resources.
To order: Call 1-800-LWR-LWR-2 (800-597-5972).
Latest videos
Ordinary to Extraordinary
Travel with LWR to Mali, West Africa, on a journey of extraordinary love as quilts, layettes, kits and soap are distributed to school children, orphans, people living with HIV/AIDS and others in need. Learn how these tools for better health and education offer gifts of new hope and dignity to thousands of families around the world each year. From your home to theirs, these ordinary items make possible a ministry of extraordinary love.
Running time: 12 minutes
Available in VHS or DVD
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Stand With Africa: Banish Hunger
Lutheran World Relief through the Stand With Africa campaign just released a new video entitled “Stand With Africa: Banish Hunger.” This 23-minute video visits four communities in East Africa where many struggle with the challenges of hunger. The video demonstrates how Stand With Africa works with local organizations to improve peoples’ lives. Click here for additional Stand With Africa Parish Resources.
Braving Aids: Senegal's Way
What would you do if your neighbor and nation were at serious risk from the virus that causes AIDS? Senegal is stopping AIDS more effectively than almost any country in Africa. An LWR partnership plays a key role in this success. See this story that's linked to you as a Lutheran, then debate the answers to the question above. Discussion guide included. Material in the video is suitable for audiences over the age of 14. (23 minutes) Click here for additional Stand With Africa Parish Resources.
Grounds for Hope
What's in the cup of coffee we drink each day? Follow Mr. Bean back to the small farmers who grow them and see the difference fair trade makes. (22 minutes)
Classic videos:
Capable Women
In West Africa, women are earning, learning and riding their way to a better life with small loans, literacy classes and motorbikes. See an LWR partnership that strengthens families, communities and the women in them against poverty and domestic violence. Filmed in cooperation with a woman film-maker from Burkina Faso. Includes discussion guide. (See also children's version Turtle Tales: W.T. in West Africa). (22 minutes)
Silent Plea: Inside North Korea's Famine
In a country of 24 million, the daily ration for many is only a handful of food. Yet behind mostly closed doors, outside help is saving lives. Award winning. Includes question and answer study guide. Sadly, this 1997 story is still urgent. (10 minutes)
Kosovo Thank You
Revisit the crisis that moved so many of us to help. See how the people of Kosovo are putting their lives back together, with hope and with our help. Hear their heartfelt "Thank You" and a challenge, as well: Can we see Christ amid such chaos? Includes discussion guide. (17 minutes)
Hurricane Heroes
An isolated village in southern Honduras offers viewers a microcosm of life after Hurricane Mitch. Skills, confidence and faith are clearly intact among the villagers even after that great storm. Includes discussion guide. (13 minutes)
Song of the Refugee
Follow an exiled singer home to his native Uganda. He travels via Liberia and Rwanda to meet other African refugees. In song and story he challenges the often one-dimensional image we have of refugees, and of Africa. The Rwanda segment visits Lutheran World Federation programs. (57 minutes)
Yudit's Choice
Meet Louisa, a migrant who survived a grim fate in the city, and Esperanza, a community pioneer in the Amazon. Will Yudit, a young highland girl, have a future like theirs? See the difference LWR makes to all three. Includes discussion guide. (16 & 14 minute parts)
Ours to Answer: 50 Years of LWR
Historian John W. Bachman and his newsman son take viewers through five decades and across four continents with Lutheran World Relief. Includes discussion guide. Also on this cassette: Samaritans from Seattle. (16 minutes)
Windows of Hope I & II
See how LWR brings hope to those trapped by poverty, enabling them to meet basic needs and participate in their communities with dignity. Featuring sustainable development projects in India, Niger, Burkina Faso, Honduras, Kenya and Peru. (six 5-minute segments on each video)
Your Channel of Hope
Concise overview of Lutheran World Relief serves as a great introduction to the agency. (10 minutes)
Journey of Hope
LWR helps the Aymara Indians of Peru liberate themselves from centuries of exploitation and poverty. With new farming techniques they are becoming more self-sufficient. (23 minutes)
Filipino Dream
The yearnings of the poor in the Philippines and how LWR links with partner agencies to help them achieve their dreams. (28 minutes)
Partners in Hope
Summarizes the worldwide work of LWR. Partnership includes overseas agencies, people in need, supporters of LCMS World Relief and the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Includes discussion guide. (13 minutes)
When the Harvest Comes
How LWR helps African farmers build reinforced wells, producing food on a year-round basis, even when the rain does not come. Narrated by Robert Guillaume. Award winning. (27 minutes)
Angola's Piecemakers: The Quilt
Travel from a Minnesota country church to Angola, Africa. Learn about the devastation of antipersonnel landmines and see LWR quilts in action. Award winning. Includes discussion guide. (28 minutes)
Please reserve one month in advance with an alternate reservation date. Your only cost is to share the video with others and then send it back to LWR Resources.
To order: Call 1-800-LWR-LWR-2 (800-597-5972).
