A team returned this weekend from Haiti and one team member shares pictures and captions. The team member is Ashley Owen from St. John’s Lutheran Church in Effingham, IL. On Wednesday morning we visited a small inner-city school, Jubilee. The students at this school truly had jubilant hearts. Though small in number, the children praised […]
Youth Mission Trip – Update
Summer Mission Trip to New Orleans 49 high school students from across the Mid-South District participated in an enriching mission trip experience in New Orleans. Students traveled to Camp Restore and took part in outreach projects to help New Orleans residents who are still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The […]
Mission Team Prepares for Trip to Tanzania in May 2018
Twenty-four representatives from the Mid-South District are preparing for a mission trip to Tanzania in May. The first group of 10 (team 1) will be leaving Memphis on May 19th and the 2nd group of 14 will be departing on May 31. Each group will fly into Kilimanjaro Airport and then board a smaller plane to […]
St. Augustine’s Lutheran School-Sudan
St. Augustine’s Lutheran School in South Sudan. Pastor Russell Shewmaker (Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Jonesboro, AR) has been teaching there on a short term mission trip.
First Lutheran Church travelled down to Guatemala
A team of doctors, nurses, and educators from First Lutheran Church in Fort Smith traveled down to Guatemala at the end of September to provide dental and medical check-ups along with ongoing professional development for the teachers at Resurrection Lutheran in Gualan. CALMS (Central American Lutheran Missionary Society) provided trip support, planning, and transportation. Contributed […]
Pastor Dave Tews reports on his first mission trip
I had the opportunity to go on my first mission trip with 12 others from the Mid-South District to Tanzania. This was an evangelism mission trip that took us to remote villages in the South East of Lake Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Tanzania. The one way trip each day was 2 hours over […]
Tanzania Mission Trip-May 19, 2016
A team of 13 will be leaving for Tanzania on May 19th for a mission trip to the South East of Lake Victoria Diocese (SELVD). The Mid-South District has been sending teams to Tanzania since 2004. The Kishapu district, the area we will be visiting this year, is a very dry and poor area with […]
Tanzania Mission Trip 2016
In Matthew 28:19-20 Christ commanded his disciples, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”. […]
Short Term Mission Trip to South Dakota
From Concordia, Kingsport, TN a short-term mission team went to Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota June 5-13. Inspired by Mrs. Laverne Morris, who purchased and organized our crafts for VBS and found our cabins to stay in, the team included Pastor Paul and Mary Becker, Frauke Darnell, Linda Morawetz and Rob McElhinny. We stayed […]
2015 Tanzania Mission Trip
This year a group from Mid-South District LCMS went to a new district of the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese called Meatu. Not only was it a new district but it had a new district Pastor Patrick Zengo. Patrick was ordained in 2014 after completion of his seminary training. Meatu is a hot dry region […]
