Missionary Alumni blog

Serve Now Spotlight: Hong Kong

This summer, a short-term team of 6-10 people have been requested to assist the LCHKS in their summer outreach activities. Short-term missionaries will begin their eight weeks in Hong Kong by assisting with a summer camp led by the GEO missionaries. Next, they will participate with…

Serve Now Spotlight: Eurasia

The western district of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia is requesting five teams to serve alongside them this summer! Additionally, LCMS World Mission is seeking an individual to serve as a worship leader for an English-speaking congregation in Riga, Latvia…

Honoring Rev. Dr. Robert Holst, alumnus Papua New Guinea

Rev. Dr. Robert Holst, President of Concordia University, St. Paul, Minn., will be retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. Rev. Holst and his wife, Lynne, served as missionaries with LCMS World Mission in Paupa New Guinea from 1962-1968 and were the first missionaries to…

Japan alumnae share updates from Fukushima City, Japan

Cindy Charlton and Haidee Kuehne are LCMS missionary alumnae currently living and serving at Izumi Lutheran Church in Fukushima City, Japan. They live about 50 miles from the severely-affected northern coastal city of Sendai, Japan, about 50 miles inland of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station…