LCMS World Mission Blog

Lutherans in Medical Missions celebrates grant recipients

LCMS World Mission celebrates with Lutherans in Medical Missions (LIMM), who recently announced grant recipients. LIMM, a Recognized Service Organization of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, has been serving the worldwide Lutheran Church since 1994…

Good news from Marjorie Gibson, a prayer partner with International Student Ministry

During the service, I tried to explain what was happening, but most of all, I just prayed that somehow the Spirit would touch their hearts. I knew God was at work when our pastor included a story about the Taj Mahal. I knew that God, who is greater than I can imagine, was lifting us up in ways that are not our ways, but truly His gifts.

Fifteen congregations celebrate 25 years of Together in Mission partnership

Pictured: Missionaries Rev. Glenn and Susan Fluegge, South Africa, at Faith in Christ Lutheran Church in Portales, N.M. LCMS World Mission is pleased and humbled to report that 15 LCMS congregations are celebrating a quarter-century—25 years—of partnership with LCMS missionaries through the Together in Mission program. They join 24 LCMS congregations who celebrated such anniversaries [...]

Photo of the Week

Dave Hoeppner interviews teachers in India regarding the needs of their school. David and Beth Hoeppner serve the Lord in India and Sri Lanka, where they serve as educational consultants for the India Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Lanka Lutheran Church.  They help develop religious curriculum in schools, coordinate short-term teams, provide enrichment opportunities for [...]

Photo of the Week

Pastors from all over Taiwan give their blessings to Pastor Alex Wu during his May 3rd installation at Salvation Lutheran Church in Chaiyi, Taiwan.  Salvation Lutheran Church is a member of the China Evangelical Lutheran Church Taiwan (CELC), a partner church body of the LCMS.  Pastor Wu is a graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and [...]

Photo of the Week

Ablaze! Alliance Missionary Rev. David Theys hands out informational tracts in the city of Jujuy, Argentina. The city, in Argentina’s northernmost province, does not yet have a Lutheran presence. David Theys and members of his mission congregation in Salta, Argentina, two hours from Jujuy, sell Christian material on the street and make valuable contacts for [...]

Photo of the Week

Louise and Michael Weber receive the 2009 International Lutheran Educators award from Dr. Jonathan Laabs, Executive Director of the Lutheran Education Association (LEA).  The Webers are educators at Concordia International School Shanghai, where Louise is the Elementary School Principal and Michael served as Director of Technology from 1998-2008.   The Webers received the prestigious award [...]

Arkansas Team Delivers Eyeglasses Kits To Vietnam

For the sixth time in more than 10 years, a group of members from Bella Vista Lutheran Church of Bella Vista, Ark. visited Vietnam from February 8-19, led by retired pastor Ron Pfluger. In addition to such yearly activities as visiting LCMS World Mission project sites in Phu Tho province and universities in Hanoi and [...]

Hong Kong Street Sleepers Party

  Long-time missionary Carol Halter befriends, visits, and shows Christ’s love to many of Hong Kong’s homeless people (or ‘street sleepers’).  Every year, she organizes volunteers and throws a party for them!  This year, the venue was Concordia Lutheran School, one of the LCHKS (Lutheran Church – Hong Kong Synod) schools. Each of the 50+ [...]

Materials available for ‘LWML Sunday,’ Oct. 5

“Opened Eyes … Hearts Ablaze!” is the theme of this year’s materials designed to help congregations celebrate “Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Sunday” on Oct. 5, or an alternate date. Dr. Robert Roegner, executive director of LCMS World Mission, authored the new materials, using the text from Luke 24:31-32 to develop the worship service ($4.25 per [...]