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 [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2013
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LCMS congregations with email addresses should have received an email in late January from the Synod’s Ministry to the Armed Forces regarding “Armed Forces Sunday” on May 19. The email is intended to let congregations know that if they want free resources to celebrate the special Sunday in May, they must place their orders no [...]
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 [...]
Friday, November 16, 2012
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Merle Freitag of Wildwood, Mo., former president of the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF), has been selected to receive the Silver St. Martin of Tours Medal from the LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces Committee and the Office of International Mission. The award will be presented to Freitag during next summer’s LCMS national convention, July [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Kids attending this week’s ESL Bible Camp at Luther University in South Korea act out the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead as Amanda Bottjen looks on. Amanda was part of a short-term team from Trinity Lutheran Church in Algona, IA that traveled to South Korea this month to serve several ministries of [...]
Monday, May 5, 2008
Did you know that LCMS World Mission missionary and business manager for the Asia region Ed Strohschein’s father, Arnold Strohschein, was an LCMS missionary to the Philippines? Ed shares, “I attended the Lutheran Church in the Philippines (LCP) 20th biennial convention in Manila. My father was one of the early missionaries to the Philippines which meant that many of [...]
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Monday, March 4, 2013
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