LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 2023, Page 123

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2. INTERNATIONAL WITNESS
To Commend, Strengthen, and Give Thanks for
Alliance Missionary Program
RESOLUTION 2-01
Overture 2-02 (CW, 265–66)
WHEREAS, The Alliance Missionary Program of the Office
of International Mission (OIM) is an initiative crossing
decades of the Synod’s recent history, under which church
workers on rosters of the Synod’s international Lutheran
church partners are called and sent by their own church
bodies into foreign mission areas of the Synod, with
administrative and financial support and supervisory
coordination provided by the OIM; and
WHEREAS, Over the past quadrennium, the Alliance
Missionary Program notably has been expanding with respect
to the number of church workers called, sent, and supported
as they spread the Gospel, plant Lutheran churches, and show
mercy in the foreign mission areas of the Synod; and
WHEREAS, The Alliance Missionary Program currently
embraces active alliance missionaries called and sent from
Lutheran church partners (located in Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria,
Paraguay, Taiwan, and Venezuela), working in mission fields
such as: Belize, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala,
Jamaica, Macau, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republic of
Congo, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Uganda, and Uruguay
and proclaiming the Gospel in four languages (English,
French, Mandarin, and Spanish); and

expanding the Alliance Missionary Program and for its
ongoing efforts to improve the same; and be it further
Resolved, That the Synod direct OIM, working under
established policies and oversight provided by the Board for
International Mission, to continue to identify and address
new opportunities in the Synod’s foreign mission areas where
alliance missionaries might be appropriately called and
deployed to carry out the Church’s mission; and be it further
Resolved, That the Synod encourage congregations and
districts to continue to support the Alliance Missionary
Program with gifts, prayers, and coordinated efforts under the
supervision of the OIM; and be it further
Resolved, That the Synod give thanks to God for the
expansion of the Church’s global mission resulting from the
Alliance Missionary Program and for all of the Synod’s partner
churches involved in the Alliance Missionary Program to date;
and be it finally
Resolved, That the Synod give special commendation and
thanks to the Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil (Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Brazil) for its close partnership and
engaged codevelopment and strengthening of the Alliance
Missionary Program, including its committed investment in
the calling, deployment, and continuing support of its pastors
in the furtherance of the preaching of Christ crucified.
Action: Adopted (6)

Upon immediate closure of debate, as suggested by the chair, the
resolution was adopted by voice vote.

WHEREAS, Two of these currently serving alliance
missionaries began their work in 2003 and 2008; and
WHEREAS, The Alliance Missionary Program draws on
long-held generational relationships between the Synod and
partner churches, in which accumulated and mutually shared
histories and experiences are directly applied to
contemporary mission opportunities facing global
Lutheranism; and
WHEREAS, The Alliance Missionary Program expands the
capacity of the Synod as we jointly take the Gospel into foreign
mission areas; and
WHEREAS, Alliance missionaries strongly complement
and enrich the work of Synod-called or appointed
missionaries; and
WHEREAS, The Alliance Missionary Program affords
numerous opportunities for excellent stewardship of
collective resources (i.e., funds, materials, manpower,
administration) shared between the Synod and partner
churches; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Synod commend OIM for its
comprehensive work in continuing, developing, and
Resolutions

Committee 2 Chairman R. Lee Hagan
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