World Mission
LCMS World Mission is the global Gospel outreach of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a confessional Lutheran church with more than 6,000 congregations and 2.6 million members in North America. Our global mission focuses on church planting and leadership development in North America and around the world. LCMS World Mission currently has active work, or active or historical mission relationships in approximately 85 countries and maintains a total global missionary force of approximately 320 personnel (career, long-term volunteer, international educators, spouses, and contracted part-time) an additional 233 military chaplains (Air Force, Army, Navy, Veteran's Administration, Civil Air Patrol, National Guard, and Reserve), and a supporting staff of 67 at its headquarters in St. Louis, Mo.
The purpose of LCMS World Mission is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with every person within every tribe and nation on earth. You can investigate how the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is engaging the world in mission by clicking here – LCMS MISSION. One of the ways this is being done is through the worldwide Lutheran mission movement known as ABLAZE!. The goal of ABLAZE! is to share the Gospel with 100 million unreached or uncommitted people in collaboration with our North American and worldwide partners by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
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