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Partner ministries & organizations to help you better achieve your mission.
Ambassadors of Reconciliation
Ambassadors of Reconciliation provides resources (Bible studies, books, training materials, etc.) and services (Bible study seminars, training, conflict coaching, mediation, church intervention) for individuals and congregations dealing with conflict.
Camp Omega
Camp Omega is a Christian retreat facility and summer camp near Waterville, Minnesota. Open year round, Camp Omega serves a wide variety of Christian and community groups. The camp receives support from congregations of the Minnesota South District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. The camp offers summer camp programs, retreat programming, and facility rental.
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (CSL)
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, offers a full undergraduate and graduate program of theological studies for the preparation of pastors and deaconesses for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. CSL is one of two seminaries operated by the Synod for pastoral and diaconal education.
Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana (CTSFW)
Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, offers a full undergraduate and graduate program of theological studies for the preparation of pastors for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. CTSFW is one of two seminaries operated by the Synod for pastoral and diaconal education.
Concordia University-St. Paul (CSP)
The Concordia Universities, located throughout the United States, serve the higher education needs of our church body. These universities attract students for a variety of four-year college degrees, both in the training of professional church workers, and advanced degrees in numerous other learning disciplines. Locally, we are served by Concordia University in St. Paul, which offers a wide variety of college majors, for those planning on becoming church workers, business professionals, and numerous other occupational fields.
Concordia Publishing House (CPH)
Concordia Publishing House of St. Louis, Missouri, is owned and operated by The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. CPH publishes theological and practical resources for the congregations and educational institutions of the Synod.
Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF)
The mission of Lutheran Church Extension Fund is to facilitate sharing of the Gospel through investments, loans, and ministry-support services, ensuring funds and resources are available now and in the future. A nonprofit, faith-based organization, LCEF serves the LCMS. Members invest to support their faith community by making funds available for our congregations, districts, Concordia Universities, Lutheran schools, and rostered church workers.
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS)
In grateful response to God’s grace and empowered by the Holy Spirit through Word and Sacraments, the mission of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is vigorously to make known the love of Christ by word and deed within our churches, communities and the world.
LCMS Foundation
The LCMS Foundation provides trained professionals who assist individuals in finding ways to practice biblically-centered stewardship. These people work in the areas of gift planning, congregational endowment funds, annuities, and trusts. The Foundation works with individuals and congregations throughout our church body that wish to establish estates, wills, and trusts that remember the work of various ministries. Gift Planners will assist congregations and individuals in setting up these gifts of various portions of income and / or of an estate. In addition, the Foundation will manage these funds as desired by the direction of an estate on an ongoing basis.
Lutherans in Medical Missions (LIMM)
Lutherans in Medical Missions is an association of Lutheran healthcare professionals and laypersons who are committed to the support of Christ's healing ministry throughout the world. It seeks to assist The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in its healing ministry by linking qualified health professionals to global medical mission needs.
LINC Twin Cities
LINC Twin Cities is an office of LINC international, which is based in Houston. LINC is an organization that works to restore communities to Christ. They do this by training disciples of Jesus who make disciples, plant new churches, and work to transform their own communities through the power of the Gospel lived out in service to their neighbors. They are motivated by the love of God and the Great Commission of Jesus to make disciples of all nations.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service works to create welcoming communities for newcomers—immigrants and refugees who have been forced to leave their homes and begin anew.
Lutheran Special Education Ministries (LSEM)
Lutheran Special Education Ministries enables children with special learning needs to receive a Christian education. A recognized service organization of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, LSEM serves children, their parents, and congregations throughout the United States. To fulfill this mission, LSEM establishes special education programs in Lutheran and other Christian schools. Through its national Resource Center, LSEM assists congregations as they minister to children with special learning needs in Sunday school, confirmation classes, and vacation Bible school.
Lutheran Heritage Foundation
The Lutheran Heritage Foundation provides free resources for sharing the Gospel with people who don’t speak English as a first language. LHF has translated and published hundreds of books like Luther’s Small Catechism, children’s Bible storybooks, devotions, and the like into more than 100 languages, which are available at no cost to churches, missionaries, and individuals wanting to share the Good News with immigrants or on short-term mission trips.
Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM)
Lutheran Hour Ministries has this mission: Bringing Christ to the Nations and the Nations to the Church. That mission identifies LHM as people of Christ with a message of hope sharing this vision: All Nations, All Peoples, All in Christ! LHM works hard to proclaim Christ’s love in the public arena so that the unchurched can come to know and respond to Christ’s love, to equip Lutheran church members with adequate skills and a passion so that they can share their faith and welcome the unchurched, and to engage Lutheran church congregations worldwide in a commitment to reach all nations, all peoples, all in Christ.
Notably, LHM has been broadcasting the Lutheran Hour since 1930, making it the world’s longest-running Christian outreach radio program.
Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML)
The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) is the official women’s auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. For over 77 years, the LWML has focused on affirming each woman’s relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live out their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions. The mission of the LWML is to assist each woman of the LCMS in affirming her relationship with the Triune God so that she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the people of the world.
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League website (Minnesota South District)
Lutheran World Relief
Affirming God’s love for all people, Lutheran World Relief works with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice, and human suffering.
Ministry in Mission
Ministry in Mission is a Recognized Service Organization of the LCMS. They have been providing mercy and Gospel outreach to Haiti since 2006. There are many opportunities for congregations and/or individuals to support this international ministry.
Ministry in Mission supports an eldercare facility and orphanage, provides hot meals to hundreds of children and elderly through several feeding programs, and runs a school sponsorship program. They also operate a guesthouse, which is used by many LCMS church teams and other mission groups each year.
Operation Barnabas
In 2007, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Ministry to the Armed Forces launched Operation Barnabas. Through this program—the only one of its kind in the U.S.—together with our congregations, we accomplish three key goals:
Care for Reserve chaplains and their families and congregations.
Train and assist local congregations in the care, support, and outreach to all military connected people in their congregations and their communities.
Serve as a resource to other organizations that provide care to military connected people.
Our desire is to enable our congregations to lead their communities in welcoming these military families back home. They have borne the weight of repeated deployments, and we can prepare to receive them home in concert with local chambers of commerce, schools and medical facilities.