Jesus commanded his disciples to “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” At Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church, we seek to encourage missions and mercy work projects, locally and globally, through prayer, financial and physical support. Our involvement ranges from providing essentials to local needy families, to providing financial and prayer support to missionaries to carry out the work to which the Lord has called them.
Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT)
Since 1989, Larry and Mae Johnson have worked on several scripture translation projects in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In his work as a translation consultant, Larry’s primary responsibility is to provide training to national translators and to assist the translation teams in preparing Scriptural materials for printing.
Please pray for the Johnsons as they respond to God’s call by helping to provide Scripture to people in their own language so that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, they can read, hear and understand His Word.
Also serving LBT is Becky Grossman, of Gobles, Michigan. Becky is working with a project to bring God’s Word to the Gola and Dan peoples in Liberia who long to have the Scriptures in their own native tongue. The translation work will be done by teams of local Gola and Dan translators with support from local Liberian churches. Becky is serving as a translation adviser and will be assisting the indigenous translations teams via the Internet and Skype with occasional in-person visits to Liberia.
Please pray for Becky and the translation teams that through their work the Gola and Dan peoples of Liberia will soon have God’s Word in their native language. For more information, please click here.
South America Missionaries
Please pray for James and Christel as they serve the Lord in the Dominican Republic and throughout Latin America.
POBLO was founded in 1993 in Dearborn, Michigan—a Detroit suburb with the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States and one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East. POBLO was begun as a mission society of the LCMS to bring the Gospel to Muslims, a partnership between the Michigan District, the Dearborn circuit, and the LCMS Board for Mission Services . By 1995, the ministry expanded into additional U.S. states and also into a number of additional countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, India, and Pakistan. From 2011 onwards, POBLO’s focus has been to train U.S. churches on how to conduct cross-cultural missions in their own communities. POBLO has developed various resources for churches and individuals, as well as replicable ministry models for those interested in Muslim outreach. For additional information, please click here.
The LCMS began mission work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1948 when Rev. Otto Hintze and Rev. Willard Burce, recent seminary graduates, joined two men from Australia and venture into the recently opened interior of PNG. Over the years since the Lord blessed the work of the LCMS so that today there are over 450 congregations and 100,000 Lutheran Christians here. There is also a Lutheran High School, 2 seminaries and a hospital. Work has also spread to the surrounding regions of the Hewa, Penale, Nete and Kopiago people.