“Jesus shall reign where’r the sun does its successive journeys run. His kingdoms stretch from shore to shore till moons shall wax and wane no more.” LSB #832 It was a quiet Thursday morning and the sun was just rising in the east. Through the early morning shadows, ten figures can be seen loading up four motorbikes. They look as if they will [...]
Pastors from the Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne – Synode de France gathered November 12-13 in Heiligenstein, France for a conference. Discussion topics ranged from the theology of Calvin to methods of distributing communion with the threat of H1N1 flu to outreach activities with immigrant communities within France. Click here to learn more about LCMS World Mission [...]
Members of the short-term team from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Broken Arrow, Okla., taught the story of Jacob taking Esau’s blessing in a skit performed at Ma Chan Duen Hey Memorial College in Hong Kong. Two students assisted the team by playing the roles of Jacob and Esau.
Christel Neuendorf, a GEO missionary serving in Panama, writes: “My home congregation, New Life Community Lutheran Church in Swartz Creek, Mich., raised pennies during their vacation Bible school to purchase bilingual Bibles for the students in my English classes in Panama. Every class that I have either translates passages from the Bible, or uses the [...]
Pastors lay hands on Jerome, Aaron, and Samuel–newly ordained members of the Lutheran Church Mission in Uganda. Bishop Paul Kofi Fynn of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana officiated the ordination, and Rev. Claude Houge represented LCMS World Mission. Other guests included Pastor Jacob Bisi and Pastor Edward Nzeme from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan. Photo from [...]
Petrea Schwahn, who serves as a GEO Missionary in Taiwan, recently volunteered with a group doing typhoon clean-up in the southern part of the country. In August, Typhoon Morakot devastated Taiwan and other areas with wind, rain, and landslides. Petrea and other volunteers spent the day shoveling mud from a village, where residents had lost [...]
On August 23, Rev. Robert Flohrs was installed as the new mission-minded pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Frankfurt, Germany. Rev. Brent Smith, regional director of Eurasia, performed the installation. Rev. Flohrs, originally from Mesa, Ariz., has been involved in mission work throughout Germany for several years prior to his reception of the call to [...]
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 [...]
Sarah Longmire leads the kids in prayer at Concordia Day Care in Bang Na, Bangkok, Thailand. Sarah teaches at the day care, shares her faith, and builds relationships with the kids and their parents and grandparents, many of whom live in the nearby slum community. Learn more about mission work in Thailand
When Ugandans introduce themselves to Americans the American will often remark, “How wonderful, that was my (great)grandfather’s/(great)grandmother’s name!” Many Ugandans have traditional English names as the personalized key-chains illustrate so well. Photo from Rev. Jacob Gillard Jacob and Michelle Gillard’s blog Mission work in Uganda
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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