While teaching children in Asia, an LCMS Short-Term Mission team from Roanoke, Va., discovered that God transforms seemingly ordinary activities into extraordinary opportunities to witness His love and worship Him with fellow Christians.
An LCMS Short-Term Mission team leads an English Bible Camp in the Czech Republic.
Lauren Dawson and other students from Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward, Neb., served on an LCMS International Mission short-term team at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in Montevideo, Uruguay.
God is right in the middle of the darkness with us, working through His people in Latin America to provide them with spiritual and physical care.
As a seminarian, I joined a student trip and met the seminarians studying in the Dominican Republic. I realized how similar we were and was encouraged to continue my studies.
While on a short-term mission trip, a seminarian experiences a widening view of the church, Christian mission work and his own life as a Christian.
English will not only allow them worldly opportunity, but an opportunity to develop their understanding of the Lutheran church and of the Word of God.
In the same way that we are freely given salvation, we have worldwide access to knowledge and opportunity, simply by knowing English.
When done gracefully and from a place of love, the simple act of sharing the Word in our native tongue can frame the Gospel in a new way.
We were in the Czech Republic to do God’s work, not our work. We shared the message of God’s love and celebrated our oneness in Christ.
Every day there will be tall mountains before us, and, even on journeys through places that seem impassible, God has already made a way for us.
Short-term voluntarily serve at the English Bible Camp to further the reach and impact of the church on the community.
What God has in store for you as a short-term volunteer allows you to play a small part in changing lives, but you’ll be surprised how much impact it has on you.
A team from Redeemer Lutheran Church in Gorham, Maine, shared the Gospel with children at the mission congregation of Havířov in the Czech Republic.
If you're on the fence about serving a short-term mission with the LCMS, I'd encourage you to try it. It was rewarding for me in ways I didn’t expect.