Photo gallery: Caring for refugees in Germany

The Rev. Markus Fischer, pastor of the Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Trinitatisgemeinde, a SELK Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany, leads a Bible study for Iranian and other refugees on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, near the church in Leipzig. (LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford)

With more than a million Middle Eastern asylum-seekers flooding into Europe, a new mission field is growing exponentially for the Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche (SELK), a church body that has been actively receiving refugees and catechizing them for decades.

Photographs by Erik M. Lunsford, managing photojournalist in LCMS Communications.

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