Lenten Letter Challenge 2025

Thanks to Tammy Walhof and the crew at Lutheran Advocacy – MN for creating this superb and essential Lenten Great Idea:

Tammy invites us to participate in the Lenten Letter Challenge 2025 from Lutheran Advocacy – MN, writing:

‘Every voice is needed!!!

Your congregation, campus, youth group, confirmation class, Women’s and Men’s groups, church committees, or whatever: invite, encourage, and empower EVERYONE to be in contact with your Minnesota state representative and senator! It is in relationship with their constituents that our legislators know what we care about, and why.

Letters can be written during a special time in worship, before or after a meal, as part of a forum or in small groups. It is effective to collect the letters as an offering to God, and to pray that legislators will be moved by them.

Remember that we do this as part of our faith, acting as God’s advocacy ambassadors for love of neighbor and creation.

Notecards, rather than big impersonal pieces of paper, help make the letters/notes feel more personal to the legislator, and assist in the relationship-building process.

Download the provided PDF or Word document, and print each ‘Issue Page’ back-to-back with the corresponding sample letter page. Or, send the pages out in advance and encourage people to bring their letters to your next meeting or gathering to dedicate and send them jointly.’

Find Lenten Letter Challenge (2025) issues and sample letters here.