Lutheran Brethren International Mission

Beginning in 1902 with missionaries to China, Lutheran Brethren International Mission has sent hundreds of missionaries to countries in Asia and Africa. The primary focus is taking the Good News of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups who have no indigenous church through which the gospel can be spread. We currently have missionaries in Chad, Japan, and Taiwan working among unreached people groups. LBIM is the international mission sphere of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren in North America.

Daily Prayer Note

  • Chad

    January 27
    Dan and Rachel ask prayer for the Church in Chad to be salt and light in this country, and pray that we as a mission will have wisdom in how to come alongside them in reaching the lost.

New Missionaries to Chad

At the fall meeting of the Council of Directors, they voted unanimously to call Nathanael and Carrie to serve as missionaries among the unreached of Chad. During the past 12-18 months, a cluster of congregations has been forming. The current cluster includes Hope LBC, Barnesville, MN, Bethel LC, Fergus Falls and Swan Lake LC, rural Fergus Falls. This cluster continues to seek congregations to join them in this mission partnership.

Nathanael and Carrie are currently in France where Carrie is studying French and Nathanael is in his last year of a Master of Arts in Theology program. Lord willing, they will return to the States early next summer where they will visit the mission cluster congregations, take pre-field training courses and prepare for their move to Chad for ministry. Nathanael and Carrie will be commissioned for missionary service at the Biennial Convention in early August of 2012.

May we as the Church of the Lutheran Brethren uphold this family in prayer during this time of preparation.
 
Glimpse Project Taiwan

 
International Relief Effort in Japan

I am the English pastor at Victory Lutheran Church in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and I led a team of eight to work alongside Dean Bengtson in relief work in Ishinomaki in August.

It was an interesting experience working in Japan with a team from Taiwan. I was in Japan in April to help with the relief work and it was amazing to see how much had been cleaned up in three months but how much more still needed to be done.

Dean has been working in the Shintate neighborhood of Ishinomaki for several months. He’s been coordinating teams that have come from all over the world. He began working in one home (the Nakagawa home) in April and God opened up doors for working in the entire neighborhood. There is one Christian in a distant corner of the neighborhood. Pray for this neighborhood that the people there would come to know God as their Lord and Savior.
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