LCMS World Mission Blog

The news media has been keeping us well-informed of the instability in Bangkok, Thailand and Jos, Nigeria over the past week. LCMS World Mission has missionaries residing in both cities. Join LCMS World Mission in thanking God for His protection of all LCMS missionaries and pray for their continued safety and for peace to return [...]

On Nov. 19, Kermit “Butch” Almstedt, chairman of the Board for Mission Services (BFMS), announced on behalf of the Board, their unanimous decision to appoint Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Zehnder as interim executive director of LCMS World Mission. Zehnder accepted this appointment the same day.
“This is a wonderful blessing to us,” shares Almstedt, “as Tom [...]

Ed and Cherie Auger, who serve at Safe Habour Community Lutheran Church in Grand Cayman, shared the following update after Hurricane Paloma passed the island on Nov. 7.
“We are pleased to inform you that Grand Cayman was spared serious damage as Category 3 Hurricane Paloma veered 18 miles to the east as it approached the [...]

Fourth-grader Jadin is a student in Plainview, Neb. She writes, “I am a fourth grader at Zion Lutheran School in Plainview. We are doing a Mission Fair. We have been praying for missionaries around the world and I decided to do my project on missionaries of Iraq. I was wondering if you could help me [...]

Phyllis Mol knows how to get kids involved in mission.
She is the fifth- through eighth-grade Sunday school teacher at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Flint, Mich., and has three children who went on mission trips to Guatemala, Indonesia, and Mexico in one summer. Phyllis wanted to get her Sunday school students informed and interested in [...]

In response to the need for volunteers to serve in areas devastated by Hurricane Gustav, LCMS World Mission is working in partnership with Camp Restore in New Orleans, La., and Camp Biloxi in Biloxi, Miss. Volunteers are needed in both areas to help with recovery and rebuilding efforts if in the aftermath of Gustav and [...]

“Opened Eyes … Hearts Ablaze!” is the theme of this year’s materials designed to help congregations celebrate “Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Sunday” on Oct. 5, or an alternate date.
Dr. Robert Roegner, executive director of LCMS World Mission, authored the new materials, using the text from Luke 24:31-32 to develop the worship service ($4.25 per 50 [...]

Chelsea Madden served as a short-term missionary outside of Seoul, South Korea, through LCMS World Mission in July and August of 2008. Here, one of her students, Ella, draws a picture of her on the board.

Read more about Chelsea’s experience serving in South Korea on her blog.
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The “Seminar on Hinduism and Praxiology of Community Outreach to the Hindu Community” was held in June 2008 at Concordia College—New York, Bronxville, N.Y. Sponsored by the Concordia Institute for World Religions and Evangelism (CIWRE), this meeting brought 46 participants and presenters from as far away as California, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska, Illinois, and Missouri—and there was [...]

Carol Becker, long-term missionary in Japan, shared this update on her blog: “Friday the 25th was my last day teaching at Suginami before the summer break, so we made crafts for fun. The yochien, or pre-school age, made jellyfish, since we’ve been learning about the ocean. The first graders made lions, since we were learning about [...]