Updates about LCMS mission work around the world.
International Mission
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.
Winter ‘Engage’: Lutherans on the move
The Winter 2023 issue of Lutherans Engage the World tells stories of Lutherans around the world who know that church is “the place … to be.”
From the mission field: Living voices of the Gospel in Papua New Guinea
Updates about LCMS mission work 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.
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.
‘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.
From the mission field: Making the mission ‘easier’
The LCMS Latin America and the Caribbean region has four area facilitators who work as part of the regional leadership and report to the regional director.
‘Tell them the truth’: Fostering a Lutheran identity in Latin America
On May 27, three pastors and 12 deaconesses graduated from Concordia the Reformer Seminary and Mercy Center in Palmar Arriba, Dominican Republic.
BIM plans for future, gives thanks for past blessings
The board met May 26–27 in St. Louis.