Youth Discovery Bible Study The High School Youth Ministry of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Memphis, is following their theme for the year – “Who is my neighbor?” – in an intentional, Spirit-led way, involving Bible study, discipleship, and leadership. Using the Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) as their guide, the youth have been led by […]
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Mission Moments
Share Your Ministry’s “Mission Moments” for the Upcoming District Convention The Mid-South District is collecting submissions for Mission Moment video segments to be shared at the 2021 District Convention in July. How does your congregation or school participate? Simply email Renae McElwain with photos of an outreach event or project, along with a short description. […]
Rev. Nzelu Elected to be Assistant Bishop
Congratulations Pastor Yohana Nzelu. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania – South East of Lake Victoria Diocese through its general assembly elected Reverend Yohana Ernest Nzelu on 12/12/2020 at Agape Parish in West district (Kahama) to be the Assistant to the Bishop. He formerly worked as a Community Development Coordinator at East of Lake Victoria […]
Mid-South District Receives Generous Grant
The Mid-South District applies for two grants from the LWML every two years for their delegates to consider at the biennial Mid-South District LWML Convention. The last convention took place this past summer. For as long as I can remember, the delegation has selected the Mid-South District’s Financial Aid for Professional Church Workers grant for […]
Good Stewardship Feeds More Kids
As Trinity HOPE starts a new school year in Haiti, we are tremendously blessed to be able to add an additional 2,185 children, teachers, and cooks to the feeding programs we administer in Christian schools throughout the country. Through God’s grace, we are now serving over 33,000 meals each school day to these hungry children […]
Youth Discipleship, Summer 2020
Salem Lutheran Ministries Springdale, AR Even as the Coronavirus crisis shut down most of our usual ministries, we were able to maintain our summer youth discipleship, called Leaders in Training. Due to our unique context this summer, we had three unique themes:• Praying the Psalms – how to understand the Psalms and use them as […]
COVID-19 Impact in Haiti
Our prayers were that the Coronavirus would not arrive on the small island of Haiti but it has arrived. Schools and churches are closed and essential business hours have been greatly reduced. First-world practices during this pandemic include stockpiling items such as toilet paper, cleaning supplies and food, social distancing, face masks, gloves, frequent hand […]
Tanzania Missions
The Coronavirus has shut down travel to Tanzania for the foreseeable future. This has resulted in the cancellation of the mission trip for the Christ the King in Memphis group that was to take place in late May. The second team, scheduled for late June has not yet made a decision. This will be made […]
Volunteers – The True Power Behind God’s Kingdom
Shortly before 1 am on the morning of March 3rd, an EF-3 tornado struck Nashville. It was on the ground for 60.13 miles, traveling for almost an hour from Nashville to Cookeville. The tornado destroyed homes, churches, schools and businesses along its path. The path of the tornado came within a 1/2 mile from Emmanuel […]
Seltz to lead religious liberty conference at Camp Trinity
Rev. Dr. Gregory Seltz is the scheduled speaker for a Champions of Religious Liberty conference March 28 at Camp Trinity, the Lutheran Camp on Petit Jean Mountain. Seltz was the Lutheran Hour speaker from 2011 until 2017, when he became the first executive director of the Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C. Seltz […]
