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Update: Cook Ministry |
Settled, Speaking, and SchedulingThose 3 “S’s” are dominating our life since we have made St. Louis our home for the next few months. We are currently speaking around Missouri and are setting up our September and October schedule for Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio. [Watch our next prayer letter for our complete schedule.] We are savoring the opportunity to share what God has been accomplishing through your support of His work in Botswana. Our summer will be filled with travels from Minnesota to New Hampshire and many places in between. Please join us in praying for travel mercies as all 8 of us climb into our “tin can” van and hit the road. |
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Lutheran church, Mission India open "Market Day" church |
(21 Jan 04) A Michigan-based mission organization known as Mission India is working with Lutheran churches in India to open churches in that predominently Hindu nation.Mission India assists many different Christian church bodies train leaders and establish churches and children's groups. |
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LCMS World Missions cuts eight staff positions |
LCMS e-News (8 Dec 03) In an attempt to further streamline its administrative structure -- matching staffing needs to its new strategic plan -- LCMS World Mission has eliminated a dozen area-director positions and is replacing them with “regional directors” for four world areas. Eliminated, effective Nov. 30, were the posts of six full-time and three part-time area directors, plus three vacant positions. |
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LBT in Liberia |
by Alvina Federwitz |
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from the Lutheran Bible Translators Messenger Volume 30, Number 4, Christmas 2003Liberia, West Africa, has frequented the news this past summer. Civil unrest has been an ongoing saga in Liberia since December of 1989. The past few months have seen and endless siege of artillery and rockets in the capital city of Monrovia where most Liberians had sought refuge after intesne fighting in rural parts of Liberia during the last year. |
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US foreign-born population continues to grow |
(7 Nov 03) Studies show the foreign-born U.S. population continues to rise, in spite of the 9-11 terrorists attacks, reaching a record high of 33.5 million in March, 2003.The largest number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, are arriving from Mexico, followed by Eastern Asia, Europe, South America, Central America, South Asia, and the Caribbean. |
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POBLO, partners open Lutheran seminary in Pakistan |
By Paula Schlueter Ross
e-News LCMS NewsFifteen Pakistani students are studying to become Lutheran pastors at a home-based seminary in Lahore, Pakistan, according to an LCMS pastor who visited western Asia Aug. 22-Sept. 1. That first group of students is expected to graduate and be ordained in about three years, according to Rev. Gary Rohwer, who works with People of the Book Lutheran Outreach (POBLO), a U.S.-based organization that works with Muslims in the United States and overseas. |
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Music and readings recorded to share the Gospel |
From Jim Kaiser, Kono Translation Advisor, Lutheran Bible Translators(28 Oct 03) About thirty dedicated African Christains helped to compose and sing twenty-four songs in the Kono language with the help of a LBT missionary. Kendra Larsen, who specializes in ethnomusicolgy, worked with the volunteers to prepare songs for a cassette tape to accompany readings about the life of Christ according to the Gospel of Luke. The readings were also recorded to help improve the people’s reading fluency. | |
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New Life Gypsy Mission to become R.O.M.A. Mission Society |
In 1997, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia asked LCMS World Mission for help in training its leaders and missionaries to reach out to the large Gypsy population in that country. Since Gypsy people—also known as “Roma,” which is the Gypsy word for the people group—have traditionally been resistant to the Gospel, the challenge at that time was to find a trained missionary with the necessary sensitivity, background and experience.From LCMS "Mission News e-News" Subscribe to the news service at http://www.lcms.org/enews/ |
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Good News from the Field - November 2003 |
Short mission stories, thoughts and anecdotes from missionary newslettersIN THIS ISSUE: 1. Good news from Bethanie Frick in Japan. 2. Good news from Chris and Rebecca Hirt in Brazil 3. Good news from Scott and Miriam Yakimow in East Africa 4. Good news from Glenn and Susan Fluegge in Togo 1. From volunteer missionary Bethanie Frick in Japan: “I have a growing list of people who are not Christians and who I see on a regular basis. So I chose ten of them who are also in a Bible study of some kind. I began to pray daily for them, and my prayers were bold, but I gradually learned what God wants me to ask for them. Sometimes that changes, but every time I pray that they are protected from evil. |
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LCMS mission groups build alliance to reach Muslims in Western Asia |
In a time of scarce resources, LCMS mission groups are proving that it is still possible to begin new mission work when they work together to pool their resources. Eleven different LCMS mission agencies and entities met on Sept. 30 at the headquarters of People of the Book Lutheran Outreach (POBLO) in Dearborn Heights, Mich. From LCMS "Mission News e-News" Subscribe to the news service at http://www.lcms.org/enews/ |
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