Topic # 11

The link that I chose to look onto is the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. This is a massive organization that controls and leads all churches in the Lutheran district. Not only do they lead churches and seminary, but they also have vast missionary opportunities. This organization has Lutheran missionaries stationed all over the world. You can fill out a form and send it into the office. Here they will check out your form and history and get in touch with you. You have a say in where you get to go and they will aid you in being a missionary in whatever part of the world you want to go to.
Not only do they have missionary work, but they also have mission opportunities. These opportunities are done through local churches, or done through the organization. These o;portunities offer people the chance to go to certain places in the world and help out the people there. helping can mean caring for the sick, teaching bible classes, or teaching people the english language. These opportunities can be a week or two long, or they can be years long. The opportunity is there and it is up to you with what you want to do.
The one that may apply to my life is the opportunity to be a pastor at some overseas church. After I have graduauted from the seminary, I can request to be a pastor at an overseas church that needs help. I could also go somewhere and start my own church in a town that may need one.
All of these opportunities are achieving one thing. That one thing is bringing the global community closer together. We as a world have so many things that are different about one another. Cultures, food, geography, all of these thing are different. With these opportunities, we can all find some common ground. We can go around the world and spread God's love to everyone we encounter. That will give this huge world of diverse people some common ground and bring us all togther in Jesus our Saviour.