LCMS World Mission Blog

Good news from Rev. Matt Heise in Mongolia

I have to admit that I have rarely seen a congregation this alive. We had up to 75 attend on a given night and the range of ages was from senior citizen to high school students. Most studiously took notes and sang the beautiful Mongolian hymns heartily...

Unrest in Kyrgyzstan; LCMS missionaries and partners safe

Kyrgyz Lutheran partners and LCMS missionaries are safe following the outbreak of large-scale protests in early April in Kyrgyzstan-a small Central Asia nation that was formerly part of the Soviet Union.Other LCMS workers usually based in the area were either out of the country at the time the protests broke out or serving in an area untouched by the violence.

From Rev. Matt Heise in Georgia

“In a recent poll taken in Russia, Joseph Stalin was voted the third-most popular figure in Russian history. But in a similar poll in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, he languished in the 52nd spot! Despite this irony, Stalin’s statue still stands in his Georgian hometown of Gori. Not only that, a home in [...]

From Matt Heise in Georgia

“At Christmastime, Christians tend to focus on texts like James 1:27, ‘Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” Especially if we have been blessed in the past year, we are more [...]

Photo of the week

Above: The quirky, twisting streets of Old Tbilisi, Georgia  (note the unique Georgian alphabet) Photo by Rev. Matthew Heise