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 [...]

Rosemary Sternbeck serves on the LAMP U.S. ministry staff in Neah Bay, Wash. She writes, “The Morning Star Girls Club had many plans and goals set to be completed by the end of the school year. One major goal was to put on a mother-daughter tea. A conference room was rented. Invitations were made and [...]

EIIT graduating class of 2008. 
Left to right: Bottom row: Rev. John Loum, Gemedo Adema, Haro Galgalo, Lang Yang, Asaph James, Elijah Ndon, Elamin Baggor. Top Row: Bafel Deng, Simon Dup, Ebenezer Mallepalle, Lumembo Tshiswaka, George Jock, Matthew Both
The Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) is a distance-education pastoral and deaconess training program for immigrants sponsored by [...]

“In the spring of 2008, the University Lutheran Chapel at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, began to collect bikes to be fixed and given away to international students. We wanted to serve international students in a relevant and practical way and we felt that this was one way we could do [...]

“For many years, I have said that Campus Missionary Institute (CMI) was the best practical ‘how to’ campus ministry training I received as a campus pastor. The 2008 CMI, held in June at Concordia University Wisconsin,Mequon, was the best one to date. Nearly 20 Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod campus ministry workers were taught an in-depth strategic planning process that [...]

Volunteers are needed as soon as possible or even today to help serve in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Hurricane Gustav battered the city of Baton Rouge with heavy winds and rain. The wind brought down trees and left debris all over the city.  Volunteers are needed to serve on Chain Saw and debris removal gangs. Rev. David [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“LINC New Orleans, as part of Southern District Recovery Assistance, Inc., is connecting a network of local missional leaders who are catalysts for justice and empowerment in their communities. Relationships have been built in area public schools where staff and volunteers tutor, counsel, and share leadership development discussions. Connections are being made in neighborhood societies [...]

Restoration Sunday is August 24, 2008. This Sunday is a special opportunity for LCMS congregations to respond to the need that still exists to minister to the communities affected by Hurriane Katrina. In an effort to help the New Orleans community and the volunteer camps helping to rebuild the Gulf Coast, a group of Camp [...]