# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S30 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 30 OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS •• On-field missionaries to participate in a continuing education program provided by Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri •• Establish Council of Elders formed from retired missionaries to provide feedback, guidance, and historical background •• Partner’s meetings for Ethiopia and Uganda •• Develop a Member Care team 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 •• Start a program of Local Leadership Development and Care in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia (also Priority 2—Theological Education and Priority 4—Collaborate) •• Encourage and participate in partner’s meetings in additional countries •• Facilitate the formation of a council of South Sudanese Lutheran churches •• Extend invitations to the Ethiopia Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to observe and participate in LCMS activities for mutual benefit and learning •• •• Start a program of Local Leadership Development and Care in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia (also Priority 2—Theological Education and Priority 5— Worker Care) Add two missionaries to establish an English as a Foreign Language program in Tanzania in part to enable increased mission effectiveness through access to additional resources and relationships 5. Nurture pastors, missionaries, and professional workers to promote spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for 6. Enhance elementary and secondary education and youth ministry Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for •• Karama Academy (primary school)–Kibera, Kenya •• Church worker’s children’s scholarship fund in South Africa •• Christ’s Care for Children, sponsoring over 300 children in six sites and boarding schools in Kenya (also Priority 3—Human Care) •• Project24 building school boarding sites in Kenya (also Priority 3—Human 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 •• Open scholarships for Turkana primary school teachers to go to teacher training college •• Add a missionary to establish a Lutheran elementary school association in Uganda •• Add missionaries to teach in primary schools in Uganda •• Team placement of all missionaries with language proficiency requirements •• Add missionaries to support youth work in Uganda and Kenya •• Access to the Sacraments for missionary teams not placed into contexts where there is a fellowship partner •• Add missionaries to teach in primary, middle, and secondary schools in Tanzania •• Annual goal-setting and reviews for missionaries •• Professional development course (12–15 classroom hours) offered on-field to missionaries once per year •• Missionary care event focused on fellowship, rejuvenation, worship, counseling, and spiritual care offered on-field to missionaries once per year •• Six-month sabbaticals to missionaries in their seventh year of service •• Facilitation of Luther Academy, Pastoral Leadership Institute International, Ambassadors of Reconciliation, short-term teams, volunteers, and grants to local church bodies for the ongoing care and development of their workers 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 2019 Convention Workbook 7. Strengthen and support the Lutheran family in living out God’s design Through the OIM, the church currently strives to provide funding, missionaries, or other material support for The Agricultural Consultancy program, which includes Scripture-based teaching on the family (also Priority 3—Human Care). Because the church bodies with whom we work are not currently requesting support or sharing opportunities within this mission priority, this area is not further engaged in this type of ministry. The Eastern and Southern Africa Area strives to support the church bodies with whom we have relationships, re-establish historic ties, and be responsive to requests for new relationships with emerging churches. We work under the theme verse “On this rock, I will build my church” (Matthew 16:18). Our field’s principles are Partnership, Professionalism, Interdependence, Trust, Humility, and Enculturation. After a triennium of growth on the field reported at last convention, the Eastern and Southern Africa area has stabilized