# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S13
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SYNODICAL REPORTS 13

God Grows His Church to the Ends of the Earth

LCMS mission fields in 1900
Brazil, Denmark, England, India, U.S.

LCMS mission fields and partner churches in 1990

Argentina, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China,
Congo, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eng-
land, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala,
Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Lebanon, Liberia,
Macau, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea,
Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, South
Korea, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo,
Umuguay, U.S., Venezuela

LCMS mission fields and Partner churches in 1998

Argentina, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
China, Congo, Cote d‘Ivoire, Cuba, Czech Republic, Den-
mark, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland,
France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Hon-
duras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kazak-
stan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Macau, Mexico,
Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines,
Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa,
South Korea, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand,
Togo, Uganda, Uruguay, U.S., Venezuela, Vietnam

{God says,] “It is too small a thing for you to be My
servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those
of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the
Gentiles, that you may bring My salvation to the ends of
the earth” (Is. 49:6).

As LCMS World Mission seeks to carry out our Lord’s
command to go “to the ends of the earth,” the task has been
divided into several world areas.

Africa/Middle East

Sierra Leone
Liberia

Nigeria
Botswana
South Africa

Africa/Middle East

In the past 20 years LCMS work in Africa and the Mid-
dle East has expanded from 3 countries and 8 people
groups to 15 countries and more than 40 groups. The num-
ber of congregations and preaching stations has increased
from less than 350 to more than 1,500.

LCMS missionaries are training more and more church
leaders through theological education by extension. The
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana has begun work in
Uganda and Benin in partnership with LCMS World Mis-
sion.

There are now more Lutherans in
Africa than in North America!
Statistics from last year indicate
that the number of African
Lutherans increased from just
under 8.6 million to 9.2 million.
North America remained stable
with about 8.6 million. There are
more than 61 million Lutherans
worldwide.