GLOBAL MISSIONS
Our congregations are actively involved in global missions providing opportunities for people of all generations to discover the many ways that God can use us to express His love to the world and share with God’s people who are in need.
Through shared resources, joining together in partnership, we are committed to teaching, equipping and mobilizing all people in our faith communities to participate in God’s work, opening up avenues for their involvement to:
· Reach beyond familiar boundaries with compassion, establishing new and nurturing existing partnerships with missionaries, mission partners and global communities
· Send missionaries and share in short-term and long-term mission experiences
· Invite and host missionaries and international guests
· Provide sponsorship for children living in global communities
· Establish financial goals for benevolence giving and support of global missions
· Join in Global Mission Presentations and Events and learn about international concerns, the culture, lifestyles and difficulties and the needs of the people in each global community in which our congregations do missions ministry
· Actively connect with hands-on projects and activities that benefit global communities
· Use their gifts, abilities and resources to fulfill the great commission, witness and proclaim the gospel of Christ and God’s love for all people.
We are constantly being transformed through our journey with God and our various mission partnerships. We invite you to pray for mission partners and missionaries around the world and seek to grow in faith and be strengthened for the mission of Christ. May you be blessed with opportunities to develop partnerships and build relationships in new places where God is at work and may be calling you to serve and support.
To learn about some of these organizations and explore new partnership opportunities, please visit http://www.lcmc.net/missionpartners.html
MISSION PARTNERS
In January, 2010, a team from Christ Lutheran Church (Valencia, CA) traveled to Central Africa Republic (CAR) with Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry (LPGM) where they were exposed to the many needs of the people and opportunities to further the work of the church in partnership with others. Christ Lutheran Church has committed to raising $40,000 to fund solar panels for the Emmanuel Health Clinic in Gallo, CAR, and provide a self-sustaining power supply so that the clinic can continue to run lights, equipment, provide tests and surgery and help the many people who are in need of basic health care, including young children 25% of whom die before age five.
[Eastern European Mission Network - logo]
Redhill Lutheran Church (Tustin, CA) and Lutheran Church of the Cross (Aliso Viejo, CA) supports the ministry of East European Missions Network (EEMN) an evangelical, inter-Lutheran mission organization that is called to work in Russia and many parts of the former Soviet Union. Redhill is sending one of their members to serve on a short-term mission team this summer to work together in partnership with EEMN missionaries and indigenous leaders.
[World Mission Prayer League - logo]
World Mission Prayer League (WMPL) is a praying fellowship, a Lutheran community of men and women who are committed to prayer as a key methodology for advancing the Gospel of Christ. Prayer is the working method of the mission of WMPL. God has called all Christians everywhere to involvement in his mission in the world. Many of our congregations, including Peñasquitos Lutheran Church (San Diego, CA) and Lutheran Church of the Cross (Aliso Viejo, CA) partner with WMPL and commit to pray regularly that spiritually gifted people from every walk of life may take an active role in sharing the gospel and themselves among those who have yet to know the Savior.
[Lutheran Bible Translators - logo]
Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT) is an independent Lutheran mission organization dedicated to helping bring people to faith in Jesus Christ. They have almost 80 LBT missionaries serving in 19 countries on 4 continents. Redhill Lutheran Church, (Tustin, CA) support a missionary family on assignment to the Komba people of Ghana.
[Baja ChristianMinistries - logo]
Baja Christian Ministries (BCM) http://www.bajachristian.org serves the spiritual and physical needs of the poor through engaging short-term mission teams in Baja California, Mexico. Members of Redhill Lutheran Church (Tustin, CA) travel to poor communities in Mexico to build solid, weather proof houses for needy families over a weekend. They have a meaningful and bonding time together serving and sharing the gospel of Christ with neighbors across the border.
Hope 4 Kids International brings hope and necessary care to kids throughout the world living in extreme poverty without the basics: food, water, shelter, healthcare and education and provide many opportunities for congregations, including Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (Torrance, CA) to serve in partnership with them.