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Britt Odemba, LCMS career missionary to Kenya, teaches first-grade students at Karama Academy, a Lutheran school in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa. Odemba, who is an educational consultant at the school, recently celebrated five years serving in Kenya. (Yasser Berenjkoup)

Mission Field Update from Kenya – May 2018

Post published:June 5, 2018
Post category:Africa Mercy Work

Britt Odemba is celebrating five years of service as an LCMS career missionary to Kenya.

Attendees at the Heidelberg Symposium, held April 24–26 in Santiago, Dominican Republic, pose for a group photo on the white roof of the Concordia The Reformer Mercy Center and Seminary. The seminary dormitory is pictured in the background. (Jana Inglehart)

Mission Field Update from Dominican Republic – May 2018

Post published:June 5, 2018
Post category:Latin America & Caribbean Planting Churches

The leaders of six Lutheran church bodies, three seminaries and five Bible institutes gathered in April

Mission Field Update from India – April 2018

Post published:June 5, 2018
Post category:Asia Planting Churches

On Nov. 30, 2017, Cyclone Ockhi hit the southern tip of India near Concordia Theological Seminary, Nagercoil (CTSN), killing 200-plus people and causing over $5 billion in damage to the area, including CTSN.

Mission Field Update from Dominican Republic – April 2018

Post published:June 5, 2018
Post category:Latin America & Caribbean Planting Churches

On Feb. 25, the Dominican Lutheran Church dedicated a new worship facility and school in Licey, Dominican Republic.

Lukaskirche (St. Luke Church) in Leipzig, Germany, undergoes renovations to its interior. The church, which serves German residents and Persian (Iranian) refugees, is scheduled to reopen in June. (Cynthia Wrucke)

Mission Field update from Germany – April 2018

Post published:June 5, 2018
Post category:Eurasia

Lukaskirche (St. Luke Church), above, serves German residents and Persian (Iranian) refugees in an integrated congregation in Leipzig, Germany.

Church Dedication in Kutaisi, Georgia

Post published:May 24, 2018
Post category:Eurasia Partners Planting Churches

The newly remodeled church building for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession in Georgia was dedicated on Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018 in Kutaisi, Georgia.