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Missionary’s photo album shows typical week serving in South Africa

Monday, March 4, 2013

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Children excited about their first day of school; spying a monkey in a tree; eating fresh mangoes; making amaquinas — deep-fried donuts — at a local “tuck shop,” or grocery; distributing school uniforms and shoes to students; painting a home; visiting neighbors; teaching Bible stories to young children. LCMS Missionary Ginger Taff-Lagergren shares those scenes [...]

Needed: ‘Full-court press’ on missionary recruitment

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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The LCMS continues to face a dire need to recruit church workers, including missionaries — a topic of concern addressed by the Board for International Mission (BIM) at its meeting here Feb. 8-9. “We have a wonderfully large opportunity to recruit pastors and lay missionaries,” the Rev. Randall L. Golter, the new executive director of [...]

Birner accepts post at Concordia Wisconsin

Friday, January 25, 2013

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The Rev. Dr. David Birner, a longtime LCMS missionary and mission executive, plans to begin work Feb. 18 as executive director of International Education at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis. Since October, Birner, 61, has served as associate executive director for Administration, Planning and Operations with the Synod’s Office of International Mission (OIM). Prior to [...]

Missionaries, children welcome retreat with others ‘who understand’

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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Swimming in the pool. Eating yummy Thai food. Being with Dad, who travels to other countries for work. Those are some things Emma Hanson, 12-year-old daughter of LCMS career missionaries Rev. Carl and Chenhsi Hanson, says she liked about the retreat for LCMS missionary families serving in Asia. But best of all was spending time [...]

Disaster-response training in Asia Pacific helpful, say partner-church reps

Friday, December 7, 2012

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“Mercy in Action” was the theme as more than 50 participants from nine countries attended the disaster-response training conference for The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s Asia Pacific region Nov. 27-29 in Hong Kong. The trainees came representing LCMS partner churches and partner ministries in Taiwan, Japan, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Hong [...]

Give thanks: Convention vote reunites Philippine partner church

Monday, November 19, 2012

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The Lutheran Church in the Philippines (LCP) — a partner church with the LCMS — is reunited, after being separated into two distinct factions for more than two decades. Reunification came Oct. 26 in a vote of delegates from both groups to the church body’s joint convention Oct. 23-26 in Antipolo City, Rizal, the Philippines. [...]

Grimenstein is director, Missionary Services

Monday, November 12, 2012

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The Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein was installed as director, Missionary Services, for the LCMS Office of International Mission (OIM) during a Nov. 8, matins service at the Synod’s International Center in St. Louis. OIM Executive Director Rev. Randall L. Golter installed Grimenstein and officiated at the service. Grimenstein, former manager of Disaster Response for [...]

Golter accepts call to direct International Mission office

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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The Rev. Randall L. Golter of Highlands Ranch, Colo., has accepted a call to serve as the first executive director of the LCMS Office of International Mission. He plans to begin work in the post Oct. 25, when he will be installed at the International Center in St. Louis. Golter, 57, is former president of [...]

More missionaries needed worldwide this year

Monday, October 1, 2012

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Of the 165 positions and requests for LCMS missionaries available worldwide this year, only about half have been filled, according to the Rev. Dr. David Birner, interim executive director of the Synod’s Office of International Mission. That total includes 101 positions for GEO (Globally Engaged in Outreach, serving one- to two-year terms) missionaries, with only [...]

German church serves Iranian refugees

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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Photo: Iranian refugees and German Lutherans recently shared a devotion in a SELK chapel. This update was shared by the Rev. Matthew Heise, LCMS missionary in Eurasia. “In the past few years, refugees have been flooding into Germany from the Islamic Republic of Iran. While it is not entirely clear, some may be political as [...]

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