CLMS to raise more than $120,000 for missions in 2013

CLMS’ Board of Directors at their February meeting.

WINNIPEG – The Board of Directors of Concordia Lutheran Mission Society (CLMS) met February 7-9 in Winnipeg to plan for the coming year. A major topic of discussion was what mission projects CLMS would commit to support over 2013.

“As our society met this year,” said President Cliff Haberstock, “we were deeply aware of how essential our support is to LCC’s mission programs—particularly as funds from congregations are declining each year. It is a privilege to offer LCC members the opportunity to be directly involved in mission.”

To that end, CLMS has committed to raise $121,420 over the coming year for 23 projects in six different countries, including Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ukraine, Thailand, and Canada. Among the projects CLMS will be supporting are Vacation Bible Schools, summer camps, and children’s education programs; university student outreach; ministry to orphans, at-risk adolescents, and the elderly; prison ministry; missionary and deaconess support; medical and dental clinics; church building construction and rentals; support for LCC’s Pastors with Alternate Training program; foreign student support; seminars for lay-people; and South Asian radio ministry.

“We give thanks to the Lord for our faithful partners in mission who continue to support CLMS mission projects with their gifts and prayers,” said President Haberstock. “I am excited about working with the gifted people God has brought together on our Board this year as we seek to advance the mission God has given us.”

CLMS is an Auxiliary organization of Lutheran Church–Canada and helps fund many of its mission projects. For more information on the projects CLMS has committed to support in 2013, see the Concordia Mission Advocate supplement in the January/February issue of The Canadian Lutheran (pp. 37-40). For more information on CLMS, visit their website.

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