LCMS World Mission Blog

Rev. Dr. Jorge Groh shares reflections on response in Haiti

Rev. Dr. Jorge Groh, regional director of LCMS World Mission in Latin America, based in Panama, shared some of his first thoughts after returning from serving on the LCMS assessment team in Haiti on Jan. 22 and 23. Groh reflected that the Haitian people are used to living in crisis day-by-day, and that the earthquake [...]

Regional missionaries re-deployed to help with Haiti response

Photo: Members of the assessment team, pastoral care personnel, LCMS missionaries, and Dominican Lutherans who worked together in response to the Haiti earthquake Regional missionaries re-deployed LCMS missionaries from other parts of Latin America arrived in the Dominican Republic to further assist the missionaries who are permanently stationed in the Dominican Republic. These re-deployed missionaries [...]

Photo of the week

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 [...]