Title: 'Mosaic' Fall 2000 Edition Focuses on ELCA Ministries in Bangladesh
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

August 18, 2000

'MOSAIC' FALL 2000 EDITION FOCUSES ON ELCA MINISTRIES IN BANGLADESH
00-198-MH*

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The fall 2000 edition of MOSAIC, the video
magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will
focus on ELCA-sponsored health care ministries and economic development
in Bangladesh.  The edition's theme is "Being Christ in Bangladesh."
     MOSAIC, available Sept. 1, will feature three eight-minute
segments on Bangladesh.
     + "My Bangladesh: A Boy Looks at His Nation" -- Nine-year-old
Rockibul Hussain offers insight into Bangladesh's rivers, farms, cities
and people.
     + "The Incredible Hunger-fighting Silkworm" -- This segment
features the Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), a program funded by
the ELCA World Hunger Appeal.  RDRS has introduced "sericulture," an
ancient Chinese art of silk worm production, to the women in Bangladesh.
Women are producing silk thread in home-based and small factory
settings.  They are also learning to produce silk cloth and garments to
be sold for a profit.  With their earnings, women are able to provide
for their families.
     + "Lighting Her Lamp: Hope for Bangladesh" -- This segment
features Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh, an ELCA-funded health care and
development project that aims to make more visible the important roles
women play in developing societies. This segment shows the roles women
are providing in a patriarchal society.
     MOSAIC is produced by the ELCA Department for Communication.  It
is intended for educational use in a variety of congregational settings
including Sunday School classes, adult forums, youth groups, women's and
men's groups, new member classes, church council meetings, committee
meetings and other organizational meetings.  Each issue includes a
user's guide with a synopsis of each segment and discussion questions.
MOSAIC is issued quarterly.  Annual subscriptions are available through
the ELCA Department for Communication.

Editors: Specific information about MOSAIC subscriptions and the
contents of each issue are available on the World Wide Web at
www.elca.org/co/mosaic or by contacting the ELCA Department for
Communication by phone at 800/638-3522, ext. 6009.  Digital photographs
that accompany each story can be requested by e-mail to [log in to unmask]
or by phone.

     [*Michael N. Hoffman is a senior at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kan.  He was an intern with ELCA News and Information this
summer.]


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