Updates about LCMS mission work around the world.
International News
From the mission field: Short-term team serves in Puerto Rico
Team members completed maintenance and repair projects and taught English-as-a-Second Language classes.
From the mission field: Giving thanks for Lutheran Heritage Foundation
In the LCMS Latin America and Caribbean region, LHF has provided more than 110,000 books in Spanish for churches and missions.
From the mission field: Living voices of the Gospel in Papua New Guinea
Updates about LCMS mission work around the world.
‘Profound unity and purpose’ in Kenya
In September, representatives from the LCMS gathered in Kisumu, Kenya, with representatives from 34 of the Synod’s partner churches to discuss the work of the confessional Lutheran church around the world.
Bernhard M. Seter scholarship to support church work students in Africa
Recipients of the scholarship must be studying to become Lutheran pastors, deaconesses or Christian evangelists serving in Africa LCMS partner churches.
ILC elects Pohjola chair, adds new members
The International Lutheran Council (ILC) is an association of confessional Lutheran church bodies.
BIM fills vacancies, issues calls
The LCMS Board for International Mission met in St. Louis Sept. 22–23.
From the mission field: Bibles for Cambodia
A grant from the LCMS was used to fund a shipment of Jarai-language Bibles to Phnom Penh.
Two new preaching stations open in Uruguay
LCMS missionaries in Uruguay work with pastors of the Lutheran Church of Uruguay and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil to bring the Gospel to the Uruguayan people.
Relief efforts begin after Hurricane Fiona
Early reports from LAC missionaries confirm the impact of this storm on communities struggling to recover from previous storms.
‘What a joy’: Day of Thanksgiving celebrates missionaries
On Aug. 26, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod recognized the service of eight missionaries and missionary families who are retiring or leaving the field and welcomed one new missionary.
Update from Ukraine: Meeting needs physical and spiritual
As war and violence continue to devastate Ukraine, the LCMS has responded in a variety of ways.
From the mission field – Walking together in Brazil
In June, representatives from the LCMS and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil signed a memorandum setting the criteria for the Alliance Missionary Project.
