Photo gallery: July 2015 “Service of Sending” for LCMS missionaries

The Rev. Andrew Schlund — shown with his wife, Kelsey, and their young daughter, Charlotte, on July 2 at the end of the two-week summer LCMS missionary orientation — will help train Lutheran pastors in Mexico City. (LCMS/Erik M. Lunsford)

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod held a “Service of Sending” for its new missionaries on Thursday, July 2, at the International Center in St. Louis. Twenty missionaries and their 40 family members attended a two-week orientation to prepare for service abroad.

The missionaries will serve in a variety of roles for the LCMS ranging from international-school chaplains to nurses in 13 countries in Asia, Africa, Eurasia and Latin America. The LCMS now has about 110 career missionaries as it moves closer to a 2016 goal of having 136 career missionaries in the field — a doubling of career missionaries as requested by the 2013 Synod convention.

Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford / LCMS Communications

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