ALWM International carries out ongoing ministry in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Thailand through our ministries in each country, and also networks and partners with Christian ministries around the world to take the gospel of Christ to those who have not heard. ALWM has opportunities for ministry partnerships in the following countries:

• In Vietnam, our ALWM ministry Vital Links is a medical/evangelistic ministry led by a local team of volunteers and our project manager. We partner with rural congregations to preach the Gospel and provide medical outreaches for the rural poor. We also help support our Gospel House kids, most of whom were rescued from abortion and now reside in 4 different “Gospel Houses” with “foster families”. Through our network of relationships in the country we also carry out much needed clean water projects among hill tribe people groups that were previously unreached!
   
• In Cambodia we work with Pastor Sam Chim, leader of LCMC Cambodia. We do youth ministry, operate two Christian schools, build wells, establish cell groups and house churches. We train and support the local leadership, and empower the local leadership to become self-supporting through our rice, cattle and banana farm ministries. Donations to purchase cows and additional land for rice and cattle, undergirds ministry and quickens the path to self-support!
   
• In Laos & Thailand, Pastor Thomas Thorstad coordinates Heart for Mission Laos – Thailand, building on network of relationships from his years as a missionary in the region.

Our Young Adult Missionary Internship (YAMI) ministry is led by Pastor Matt Shields. For more information visit alwm.org/YAMI or write pastormatt@alwm.org. 

As of January 2022, 60 girls and their children call Courage House home. CWW works closely with Tanzania's Department of Social Welfare for referrals, and to ensure compliance of all child welfare and government regulations. More than 40 staff care for the physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs of our girls, helping each of them experience God’s love and purpose for their lives.

Courage House Too is our program for residents (ages 18+) transitioning out of the Courage House program into college, vocational training and jobs in preparation for independent living. Currently, 18 graduates of the Courage House program take part in this residential program as they pursue higher education and progress into adulthood.

Our most recent development is Courage Café in Moshi, a space for spreading awareness of human trafficking, an arm of our vocational training for the members of our vocational training program, in-country diversification of funding for CWW, and a cozy café for the Moshi community. It is our mission and ministry to use the space of Courage Café and Events Center to educate the community on trafficking, its nature and how we can work together to support victims and end this crime against the most vulnerable. We have had the opportunity to train many leaders, pastors, and young adults on the causes, solutions, and prevention of human trafficking. We believe our call as followers of Jesus is to set captives free, as it was His mission (Luke 4).

The vision of Courage Worldwide is to replicate this model in every city in the world that needs one. Now that we have successfully established and prototyped Courage House, Courage House Too and Courage Café in the Kilimanjaro Region, it is time for expansion and replication. Beginning in 2022, Courage Worldwide is bringing our model based on culturally-relevant trauma therapy, restoration and assistance to victims of sex trafficking to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. There is a need for victim support in this rapidly growing urban city and we are excited to continue partnering with a variety of stakeholders, including governmental, non-governmental, intergovernmental, faith-based leaders and communities, businesspeople and more, to see the eradication of this crime against the most vulnerable and to rescue and restore more victims. Goals in 2023 is to continue to expand in countries in East Africa and beyond, wherever God leads.

Empowering and equipping churches leads to create lasting and transformational health.

Patrick Lencioni, in his book, The Advantage, notes that ‘organizational health trumps everything.’ Not only have we found his argument to be true in the church to a high degree, but we have also found it to be true for the leaders of the church as well. Outside of the Gospel, the most important factor in the effectiveness of a church is the health of the church. Outside of the work of God, health is the most important factor in the effectiveness of pastors, staff and ministry leaders. Health trumps.

Vision: 

Our vision is to be the impetus in the revitalization and rebirth of the global church through training, resourcing and intentional learning experiences for Christians, empowering them to serve their communities around the world. We will empower and equip churches and leaders to create lasting and transformational health. Our ministry includes three primary elements:

• Church & Leader Health: To provide support, education and resources for pastors and ministry leaders to experience transformative health for maximum Kingdom impact. We also help churches experience greater organizational health through education, training, consulting and other support.
• Church Revitalization: To provide networks, resources and training to assist churches and their leaders in revitalization. We also connect churches and ministry leaders to one another, helping churches find health, hope and life in order to experience revitalization.
• International Ministry: To provide training for churches, pastors and leaders in areas around the world where poverty prevents them from receiving quality training. We also seek to create international internships, missions and learning experiences for churches and their leaders to learn from others around the globe.

“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Habakkuk 1:5

The whole gospel for the whole world.

Core Values:

• Building the Global Christian Church
• Revitalizing Local Churches
• Equipping Pastors and Leaders
• Creating lasting and transformational health

Connecting Spiritual Orphans to the Global Family of Christ!

At SON Network we serve people in a part of the world that is often overlooked as a mission field. We excel at reaching spiritual orphans in the unique context of former communist nations.The spiritual darkness and challenges of former and currently communist nations are uniquely different from more common, third-word missions destinations. While most mission organizations are focused on service and social ministries (building homes, digging wells, clothing and feeding the poor), this is often a means to an end to share the Gospel. The part of the world SON serves already provides for basic human needs and infrastructure. What is lacking is a connection to God. YOU can be that connection!

Relationships are at the core of all SON ministries and every mission. We invest in one on one, long term relationships that often lead to lives truly Transformed in Christ. Our missions allow for team members to begin engaging people in the Gospel almost as soon as the plane lands in country! SON Network connects North American believers with people and ministries in former communist and Soviet bloc nations in Central & East Europe, Russia, the Baltics, the Balkans, and in Ethiopia. SON is currently serving in Albania, Belarus, Estonia, Ethiopia, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

Vision/Mission:

SON Connects Spiritual Orphans to the Global Family of Christ. We do this by building relationships through Christian missions that Engage, Reclaim and Transform lives in Christ!

• ENGAGE: Engage and connect people with God’s Word
• RECLAIM: Come alongside spiritual orphans living in former and current communist nations to Reclaim their identity in Christ
• TRANSFORM: Walk with spiritual orphans from their first encounter with the Gospel to a lifetransformed in Christ!

Camp Penuel Costa Rica also reaches out into the community by teaching English in local schools, making ukuleles in juvenile detention centers, doing work projects in at-risk neighborhoods, and training young adults to be Christian leaders, all bringing others to know Jesus as their personal Savior. 

We welcome individuals, families, and teams to participate in our vision by praying for the Camp, providing financial gifts, and/or coming to the Camp to bless the people of Costa Rica.   

St. Peter’s Lutheran School was founded in 1844 and is a direct ministry of St. Peter’s Ev. Lutheran Church of Walmore, in Sanborn NY, an LCMC Congregation. Over 80% of our students are from non-members, with majority of them from non-church families which means our school serves as a Mission Field for the community and surrounding area. We are blessed to live in an area of diversity where we can reach out to and provide an education to children from the inner city, area suburbs, those on our local Native American Reservation, as well as the many who live in rural communities here in Western New York.

As a school, we are able to operate in a stable position because of the gifts of the St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. We offer financial aid to families who seek a Christian education for their children. Our belief is that no child should be turned away from a Christ based education due to financial constraints.

Join us in partnering together to support finical aid scholarships, transportation for children in the inner city, outreach activities to families that are non-churched. Find out more at our website below.

Haiti’s Children, Inc focuses on school sponsorship and food programs for the children. We also host medical mobile clinics, construction and evangelism teams.  We have been one of the first responders in any natural disaster in Haiti since 2008.  

Chosen People Ministries exists to pray for, evangelize, disciple, and serve Jewish people everywhere and to help fellow believers do the same. The mission was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1894 by Rabbi Leopold Cohn, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with a zeal to share the knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah with God’s chosen people.

Today, Chosen People Ministries serves in sixteen countries across the globe. Our outreach programs include evangelism and discipleship, Messianic Centers and congregations, equipping the local church for Jewish evangelism, print and web publications, and benevolence work. With your help, we will continue proclaiming the Good News through Jesus the Messiah to Jewish people around the world.

Only certain churches and individuals have a vision for global mission large enough to grasp the opportunity and needs of the young churches around the globe, and we hope that is you. We also hope you can grasp the significance of what we are announcing.

In 2015 we launched international education as part of the mission of Educational Ministries, our certificate program. Beginning with South Sudan, then India, followed by Southeast Asia, ILT began to help seminaries and young national churches in developing countries to train pastors and church workers. We have been invited to work with churches in more countries in Africa and Asia and will do so once we have more individuals and churches to partner with us.

International Partners’ mission is to address growing demand for international education and connect with sponsors who envision a faithful, growing, global Lutheran church.

• Create curriculum to train their pastors, evangelists, and church workers

• Train and credential seminary faculty of partner international seminaries

• Train international students currently in North America

• Encourage collaboration between mission groups and cultivate support for partner projects

We believe the future growth of the Lutheran Church in the long term is in Africa and Asia. We invite you to partner with us in this vision.

Water Missions International implements customized safe water solutions through a comprehensive community development model in its nine permanent country programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Each solution functions like a mini municipal water treatment plant capable of purifying more than 10,000 gallons of water per day which can serve up to 5,000 people per day. Through the provision of safe water, community outreach events and coordination with best-in-class ministry partners, doors are opened to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

For over 40 years, we have been committed to serving children living in impoverished environments around the world by establishing economic, spiritual, water, orphan, and feeding programs. In addition to these programs, we have been leading teams of volunteers on two-week international mission trips bringing life-saving provisions and the spirit of Jesus.

Mission On The Move, or MOM, was founded in 1986 by Rev. Ed. Cadle, Sr. Brother Ed served as pastor in the United Methodist Church for 37 years, he retired in June 1985.  We are a non-profit, non-denominational organization, with a diverse board of directors from several states. Mission On The Move’s first refugee mission was established in Tapachula, Mexico in 1986. Bro. Ed retired from Mission On The Move in June 2008 and our Missionary Steve Shearouse has taken the role of Director.
 
For twenty years, Mission On The Move has followed the Command of Christ, "Go," feeding, clothing, giving dental and medical care, and refuge to deserted, abused or neglected children.
 
Mission On The Move has built five medical clinics aboard buses, established nutritional feeding programs, commissioned full-time missionaries to Honduras, Mexico, and Africa, established a well drilling program and established children's homes, or albergues, in Mexico to get the children out of prison where they are living with their imprisoned fathers.

Guyanese Outreach (GO) invites you to join with us in our Mission to Guyana South America.

GO’s mission started in 1994 when Guyana was considered poorer that Haiti. It was then necessary to address the physical needs of the people and address the spiritual needs next. We started out by sending humanitarian aid. After a few years, through prayers, we were led to changing our focus. We had given the fish now it was time to “teach how to fish.”

For the last 10 years GO’s emphasis has been (and continues to be) on education and evangelism. GO teaches a Functional Literacy Program for primary school students, adult reading classes, computer/math for children and an adult computer program for job training. GO also sends mission teams each year to Guyana to work with different churches on evangelism.

With both our actions and our love, we express the Biblical challenge to “GO therefore and teach all nations.”

Lutheran World Relief, an international nonprofit organization, works to end poverty and injustice by empowering some of the world's most impoverished communities to help themselves. With partners in 35 countries, LWR seeks to promote sustainable development with justice and dignity by helping communities bring about change for healthy, safe and secure lives; engage in Fair Trade; promote peace and reconciliation; and respond to emergencies. LWR is headquartered in Baltimore, Md. and has worked in international development and relief since 1945. Lutheran World Relief is a ministry of U.S. Lutherans, serving communities living in poverty overseas.

• 100% of all contributions to the LDA Fund will go toward disaster relief grants.
• The goal of the Fund is to reach out to those impacted by disaster who otherwise would not have resources.
• Grant decisions will be made by a committee made up of representatives from 5 contributing churches (one representative per congregation).
• Grants will be limited to 50% of monies available at any given time, so as to not totally deplete the Fund in response to a single disaster.
• If, in the future, the LDA Fund is no longer needed, is replaced or is not supported, a process of termination shall be initiated. This will be determined by a consensus of the current administrator and the 5 contributing church representatives. Any remaining funds on hand will be sent to the LCMC office for disbursement to their greatest need.
• Refer to the LDA Fund Grant Criteria and Application Instructions for more details.

Pr. Jeff Johnson

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
P.O. 17444
Fountain Hills, AZ 85269
Memo: Mission Nicaragua

CFCI works in 16 nations, with over 130 ministries! We provide you with a wide variety of experiences and opportunities to explore your calling and discover how, and where, God is calling you.

We have three different mission trip options:

1. Our Global Teams program sends over 500 teams every year internationally on fully customized trips for 1-4 weeks.
2. Our Global Ambassador program sends individuals on mission trips for 1-12 months.
3. Our Urban Plunge program sends over 1,500 youth every year on weekend and week-long mission trips to 9 different cities within the USA.

You also have the opportunity to Join-A-Team as an individual, couple, family and small group of friends! Current Join-A-Team opportunities are regularly updated on our website and include specialty and creative trips such as Photography, medical/dental, sports trips and more.
 
Visit www.cfci.org for additional information.

• Evangelistic Church Planting
• Mass Media: Radio, TV, Drama
• Bible Translation
• Medical - Hospital - Clinic
• Teaching ESL
• MK Education
• Anti-Human Trafficking
• Ethnomusicology
• Business as Mission
• Engineering
• Primary & Secondary Education
• Administration
• Agricultural Consultancy
• Theological Education

Visit our website to view over 50 service opportunities at wmpl.org/serve-now.

Standing behind those who go are scores of congregations and over 6,000 individuals who have committed themselves to pray.  Start by becoming a ‘praying member’ yourself at wmpl.org/membership.

Get to know us and our guiding document at wmpl.org/handbook. 

Donations may be sent to:  

• Pastor K.K. Alavi, Southwest India
  Pastor K.K. is a converted Muslim and has a strong calling to tell Muslims about salvation through Jesus Christ.
• Otten English School, Southwest India   
  This is a Government certified school that has over 1,200 students – Preschool to Gr. 12.  Only 6% of the students are Christian, but each day begins with Christian prayer and devotions.  Many Muslim students stay after school to learn more about Jesus Christ.
• Pastor Titus, Nigeria, Africa
  Pastor Titus travels throughout Nigeria, starting and supporting Christian churches in Muslim villages.  He is fearless in his faith of Jesus Christ.
• Frank Hutton, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota    
  Frank works with foreign University students, linking them up with fellow Christian students, holding noon meals, taking them on weekend retreats: always telling them about salvation through Jesus Christ.