# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S29 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS In the next triennium, the OIM hopes to continue and expand upon the work above and additionally recruit missionaries or provide new material support to •• Add a missionary to plant a church in Karen, Kenya, and support church-planting efforts in other outreach areas of Kenya, including Murang’a and Lodwar •• Support new Mission Training Center programs in Malawi, South Africa, and Rwanda •• Add two missionaries to establish an English as a Foreign Language program in Tanzania in part to enable relationship-building with non-Christians 29 cator, a deaconess instructor, and an administrative seminary principal/president •• Add two missionaries to establish an English as a Foreign Language program in Tanzania in part to enable seminarians and pastors to access the abundant resources available in English, including Englishbased seminaries and theological materials 3. Perform Human Care in close proximity to Word and Sacrament Ministry Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for 2. Support and expand theological education •• Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for the following seminaries: Mercy Medical Teams in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Madagascar •• An Area Nurse Educator in Tanzania •• Church construction matching grants, including tin roofs in Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia •• Water projects in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Malawi •• Agricultural Consultancy in Malawi, Tanzania, and Kenya (also Priority 7—Strengthen Families) •• Scholarships to professional governance-training programs •• Roofing of church buildings for congregations transitioning into larger or more permanent worship spaces (also Priority 1—Plant Churches) •• Christ’s Care for Children, sponsoring over 300 children in 6 sites and boarding schools in Kenya (also Priority 6—Youth Education) •• Project24 building school-boarding sites in Kenya (also Priority 6—Youth Education) •• Matongo Lutheran Theological College in Kenya •• Lutheran Theological College in Uganda •• Mekane Yesus Seminary in Ethiopia •• St. Peter Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tanzania •• Lutheran Theological Seminary in South Africa In addition, the OIM supports the following programs in the sphere of theological education: •• Development of an Amharic hymnal for use in Ethiopia In the next triennium, the OIM hopes to continue and expand upon the work above and additionally recruit missionaries or provide new material support to •• Establish a sponsorship program for seminary students attending school in the area •• Support the costs for representatives from Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia to attend the triennial Hymn Writer-Translator’s Conference •• Start a program of Local Leadership Development and Care in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia (also Priority 4—Collaborate and Priority 5—Worker Care) In the next triennium, the OIM hopes to continue and expand upon the work above and additionally recruit missionaries or provide new material support to: •• Support church bodies developing their office of deaconess •• Expand the Christ’s Care for Children: Kenya program to double the number of children in the program •• Construct two additional Project24 school boarding facilities in Kenya •• Expand theological scholarships to include new pastoral and deaconess students from Rwanda, Malawi, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Zambia •• Provide introduction seminars for the new Amharic hymnal in Ethiopia •• Initiate a multi-year malaria education and eradication program in Tanzania •• Add three missionaries to the faculty of Matongo Seminary in Kenya–a theological educator, a deaconess instructor, and a music/voice teacher •• Add missionaries to provide medical services and education in Uganda and Tanzania •• Add a missionary to the faculty of Mekane Yesus Seminary in Ethiopia •• Add a missionary to the faculty of St. Peter’s Seminary in Tanzania •• Add three missionaries to the faculty of Lutheran Theological College of Uganda—a theological edu- 4. Collaborate with the Synod’s members and partners to enhance mission effectiveness Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for •• Newly deploying missionaries to participate in online missionary training provided by Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2019 Convention Workbook