Category: Mission News
Changes reported in overseas missions
“We are learning to do overseas mission with fewer dollars,” Lutheran Church–Canada’s mission executive Dr. Leonardo Neitzel reported to synod’s Board of Directors. His comment came as the board listened to him explain that LCC can no longer afford to support a full-time missionary in…
Fire devastates Dnepropetrovsk church
On October 22, Pastor Alexey Navrotsky (Lutheran Church–Canada’s missionary in Ukraine) sent an alarming e-mail. He reported that an electrical fire the previous evening destroyed much of the Central Evangelical Christian Baptist Church in Dnepropetrovsk. This is only the latest chapter in the dramatic story…
Alberta congregation adopts Nicaragua project
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta – When the congregation of Iglesia Evangelica Luterana Nueva Jerusalen in Villa Salvadorita, Nicaragua recognized the need for additional space to carry on its community outreach work, help came all the way from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lethbridge. Immanuel Lutheran Church has raised…
Online communication vital to mission work
The expectation of having Internet and telephone service extends to the mission field and when it’s not available, it’s easy to forget how people communicated without it. Martin Weber, a Bible translator with Lutheran Bible Translators-Canada (LBTC) serving in Cameroon, resorted to using his satellite…
Church provides future pastors with hands-on experience
CHINANDEGA, Nicaragua – Iglesia Luterana Sínodo de Nicaragua (ILSN) has developed an interesting method to help seminary candidates prepare for their theological studies. A year or more before they start the program, the lectores (seminary candidates) are involved in congregational and mission outreach activities. They assist their pastors…
Church workers gather to gain deeper understanding of Lutheranism
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Since forming as a church body in 2009 and installing its first bishop earlier this year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cambodia (ELCC) continues developing its Lutheran identity. Church workers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cambodia gathered to learn Lutheran…