Lutheran Missions And Missionaries

[PACKY]

I know that right now there is a large influx in the RCC in latin America and Africa as well as Muslim growth in Africa, Do you know of any lutheran missions in these regons or of any efforts by lutherans in these regions to promote lutheran faith and doctrine?

[SemStudent08]

I know that right now there is a large influx in the RCC in latin America and Africa as well as Muslim growth in Africa, Do you know of any lutheran missions in these regons or of any efforts by lutherans in these regions to promote lutheran faith and doctrine?

Well, I can speak personally to ELCA missions in Africa. I was born in Jos, Nigeria and was there from age 0-3 then my family was in South Africa from when I was 9-14 years old (my father taught at Seminaries in both of those countries). There are still quite a number of Lutheran missionaries in Africa and S. America, not just from America either, but also from Germany and Scandanavia (and a few other European nations). As a matter of fact, a Lutheran Seminary was recently built in Tazania, and here at my seminary we've ben raising funds to repair the Lutheran Seminary/Bible College in Jamaica after it was damaged last year during a tropical storm. For more information click here (http://www.elca.org/globalmission/). I can also say, there is a (I feel) positive and growing trend in the Lutheran Mission field called "South to South" in which Seminaries are being established in the Southern Hemisphere and theologians are sent there in order to prepare Missionaries to other countries in the Southern Hemisphere (w/o the baggage American/European Missionaries can sometimes bring, ie memories of Imperialism). Ok, hope that answers some of your question anyway.

[Rechtgläubig]

http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?2601&collectionID=751

[PACKY]

Anyone here ever worked in a mission?

[Zoomer]

http://www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=887

[Protoevangel]

Anyone here ever worked in a mission?Not yet, but I would really like to go on one of our short term missions to Mexico, China or Korea.

[SPALATIN]

Not yet, but I would really like to go on one of our short term missions to Mexico, China or Korea.

My Mom and Pop-in-law are Missionaries with MAF (Missionary Aviation Fellowship) in Manaus, Brazil. The name of their mission is Asas de Soccoro or Wings of Help. He is a retired Citibank Sr. VP who had what he felt was a calling to do this kind of work. Mind you they are not Lutheran by any stretch of the imagination, but I love them anyways. ;)

[PurpleBunny]

http://www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=887

A friend of mine spent a year between getting his B.A. and going to seminary working at the LCMS mission in Conakry, Guinea. He is fluent in French, which is one of the official languages in that part of Africa.

[Phoebe]

Our ELCA congregation supports missionaries in Tanzania. Those are just the ones I know about. I know there are others. (Do they speak Swahili in Tanzania?)

[GlowingFirefly]

I'm not sure if my ELCA church has been outside of the USA yet to be honest. At least since 9/11 I think.

Our mission trips just take us to different states of the US, like Georgia was one two years ago.

My church has a parner church in Montana. Last summer my two friends, along with my Pastor, a Pastor-in-training, his wife, and myself, all flew from PA to Montana and spent a week doing community service work on and with the church community.

For someone who doesn't like to fly, I think that trip was the most amazing trip I've ever been on. :)

We have another partner church in Philly, but I haven't been there yet.

I wish we could go outside of the US to places like Africa, but I'm not sure if we can. Though, as of right now, I think going to places like Montana is good enough for me. :)

[PACKY]

Is there a big push within the lutheran church to evangilize and to grow the church in other nations by means of missions?

[JADVirginia]

If you go to Lutheran World Federation's website, you will find that the member churches, there are 14 million Lutherans in Africa, while in North America there are only 5 million. See http://www.lutheranworld.org/Who_We_Are/LWF-Member_Churches.html.

JADVirginia

[PACKY]

If you go to Lutheran World Federation's website, you will find that the member churches, there are 14 million Lutherans in Africa, while in North America there are only 5 million. See http://www.lutheranworld.org/Who_We_Are/LWF-Member_Churches.html.

JADVirginia

looks like there is Lutheran mission work to be done in North America,
Hopefully every lutheran will at somepoint in their life be able to do mission work of some kind