Category: Mission News

August 19, 2020

Missions in Alberta: Bethel Lutheran LAMP Teams 2020 Video

Sherwood Park, Alta. – Normay Weibe of Bethel Lutheran Church (Sherwood Park, Alberta) put together this video to share with the congregation what the Lutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots (LAMP) teams from the church are doing for summer ministry. ———————

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August 18, 2020

COVID-19 and outreach in Windsor

  by Javed Khan WINDSOR, Ont. – Windsor Essex County Lutheran Outreach (WECLO) has continued its important intercultural ministry, albeit in different forms, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Javed Khan, lay missionary for WECLO, reports a number of changes the ministry has undertaken to maintain…

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July 16, 2020

Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) distributes food hampers, soap, essentials to Haitians amid pandemic

by Andrew Jackson HAITI – The Haiti Lutheran Mission Society (HLMS) has been making great strides in adopting a new focus: Educating our Haiti brothers, laymen, to fill the role as spiritual leaders within their communities, in light of the lack of pastoral presence in…

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July 6, 2020

Not-So-Short-Term Missions!

by Robert C. Krestick Every once in a while, I encounter a person or even a brother in the Holy ministry who thinks that Team Zion’s yearly mission trips to Leon and surrounding areas in Nicaragua are not “real” mission trips because they are labeled…

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June 2, 2020

Pandemic Relief Aid in Cambodia

  CAMBODIA – As we know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused grief and pain in all parts of the world, particularly causing great suffering among people living in countries that are least able to confront the disease. Cambodia is one of those countries. Recognizing the…

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May 25, 2020

Prayers requested for Nicaragua amid pandemic

by Olga Groh NICARAGUA – The pastors and deaconesses have informed us of the exponential increase in potential cases of COVID-19, occurring over the past few weeks in Nicaragua. Though the official government numbers in Nicaragua show a low number of cases – with 7…

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