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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Monday, July 16, 2012
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Pictured above: Students from around the globe stand in front of Westfield House’s ivy-covered walls. Westfield House is the theological training center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England. Download the August 2011 prayer calendar, which provides specific prayer requests for LCMS ministry in the United Kingdom, along with ways to pray for the Lord’s [...]
Friday, July 13, 2012
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Representatives of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (known by the Czech acronym ECAV) in the Czech Republic signed a “working agreement” July 11 that pledges continuing dialogue between the two church bodies and allows the LCMS to operate an English-speaking congregation in Prague – St. Michael’s Lutheran Church. The [...]
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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This update was shared by GEO missionary A.J. Davis (pictured above), who serves through the LCMS in Slovakia. “In May, I joined my colleague Peter on a camping and hiking trip to a small village outside of Presov. We didn’t plan too much, just where we wanted to end up and when we would start. [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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This update was shared by GEO missionary Sarah Berta-Somogyi, who serves in Hungary and is pictured above. “Although this month was full of many wonderful happenings, the one that sticks out in my mind the most was having to say goodbye to my 12th graders. In Hungary, the seniors take their final written exams and [...]
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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