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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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Photo: Concordia Middle School student Tiffany and some Xuang Xi second gradersshow off their Gospel bracelets. This update was shared by Mark Wolfram, who serves as an LCMS missionary in Taiwan. “On May 17, I took my 10th grade advanced English class on a service learning trip. The Concordia Middle School students went to Xuang [...]
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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Photo: Vice Deans Chen and Zhu are teaching courses, writing their doctoral dissertations and taking care of their young children while transitioning into important leadership positions at China Lutheran Seminary (CLS), which gives missionaries bright hope for the future of CLS. This update was shared by Rev. Stephen and Maggie Oliver, who serve as LCMS [...]
Thursday, June 28, 2012
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Photo: The new LCMS career and GEO missionaries at New Missionary Orientation 2012 gathered in the lobby of the LCMS International Center, St. Louis, in front of the “Great Commission” moasic by artist David von Behren of El Cajon, Calif. It is made from almost 1,600 pieces of 16 varieties of wood found throughout the [...]
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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