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Tag Archives: Tanzania
ELCA News
For full stories and more, visit www.ELCA.org/news ELCA missionary receives American Medical Association honor Dr. Mark L. Jacobson, a medical missionary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has been awarded the 2013 Dr. Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine … Continue reading
Snippets – February 2013
News, events, tips, and tricks from your synod ministry partners Campus Ministry: Thank You to Our Boards Lutheran Campus Ministries have seen many changes in funding and structure in the last few years including the shifting role of the Board … Continue reading
God’s Call to Open Our Doors into Community
By Rev. Linda Gunderson Synod Minister Pastor Sarrah serves a congregation in rural Tanzania. The congregation she serves is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (2013). As part of their celebration they will take a special offering for the destitute … Continue reading
Posted in Global Mission News, River Crossings
Tagged community, February 2013 River Crossings, global mission, mission, Tanzania
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Tanzania 2013: Youth Servant Leadership International
If you are a Southeastern Minnesota young adult in or of high school or college age, please consider joining in the first Southeastern Minnesota Youth Servant Leadership International (YSLInternational) trip to the Central Diocese of Tanzania. We are looking for … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Global Mission News
Tagged global mission, Good Earth Village, mission, service, Tanzania, youth
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Snippets – June 2012
News, events, tips, and tricks from your synod ministry partners Global Mission: Building Leaders in Tanzania Mwangaza is a grassroots, faith-based organization that engages participants in leadership skill development in all 20 dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania … Continue reading
Snippets – February 2012
News, events, tips, and tricks from your synod ministry partners Women of the ELCA: What Makes a Unit? Are you a member of the Women of the ELCA? If you are a woman and a member of an ELCA congregation, then … Continue reading
Synod News – January 2012
News and information from around the synod. 2012 Communicators Retreat Feb. 2-3 Publisher or Pinterest, bulletins or broadcast, newsletters or news releases – if you’re involved in communication in your congregation, come join us for the annual Synod Communicators Retreat. … Continue reading
Four Mount Olive Members Set Up Computers in Tanzania
In 2007 a group from Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minn., travelled to the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania for a technology assessment at the request of the Diocese. In November 2011, four members returned to … Continue reading
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Tagged December 2011 River Crossings, global mission, Tanzania
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Central Diocese Celebrates 100 Years, Join from Home
On Sunday, December 18, our partners in the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, a companion synod of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, will be having a festive centennial celebration. A delegation from the Southeastern Minnesota Synod will … Continue reading
Partners in Hope Nears $100,000 Goal!
By Rev. Howard White Thank you to all the congregations and individuals who participated in our Partners in Hope fund raising effort. As July 31, the total amount raised is $95,527. Additional gifts may be received in the next few … Continue reading
Visiting Bishops Share Current Projects & Hopes for Future
By Kathy Bolin Synod Global Mission/Companion Synods Coordinator What is exciting about the church in your country? This was the question that Bishop Martínez and Bishop Sima were asked at the Global Mission Companion Synods Committee meeting in May during … Continue reading
Synod News – June 2011
News and information from around the synod. Mailing List Updates With the passing of another Synod Assembly comes updates to the River Crossings mailing list. If you were a lay voting member at the 2010 Synod Assembly but were not either … Continue reading
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Tagged CYF News, events, global mission, June 2011 River Crossings, Partners in Hope, prayers, Tanzania, women
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The Key to the Future
By Rev. Nick Fisher-Broin The fastest growing denomination in America is ‘no religion’…The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania’s membership is now larger than the ELCA. Perhaps the church in Tanzania has something to teach us. (Bishop Harold Usgaard, 2011 Southeastern … Continue reading
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Tagged global mission, June 2011 River Crossings, Partners in Hope, Tanzania
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Luncheon Provides Opportunity to Grow Global Partnerships
By Jeremy Wahlstrom Rev. Fred Rengstorf, chair of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod Global Mission/Companion Synods Committee, reminds us that “the church is about relationship, first with our Savior Jesus Christ, and then secondly with our brothers and sisters in Christ.” … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 Synod Assembly News, Global Mission News
Tagged Colombia, global mission, Tanzania
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Supporting Our Partners
By Rev. Fred Rengstorf One of the international partners of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod is the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. This year the Central Diocese is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. Since 1911, with the support … Continue reading
Can We Do It: $100,000 for Singida University
By Jane Rinehart Our synod is now half way into the six month Partners in Hope appeal to raise $100,000 for our companion synod in the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. As of March 1, we … Continue reading
Are You Connected to Tanzania?
In 1911, two German missionaries started a mission in the central area of what was then known as German East Africa. After World War II, the growing number of missionaries, now coming from the Augustana Synod in the United States, … Continue reading
Celebrate Relationships in Tanzania
By Rev. Harold Usgaard Synod Bishop Kiomboi, Msingi, Amani, Ihanja, Ghairo, Kisimba, Mijuhu, Migori, Ilongero, Choma – strange sounding names to some of us, but to others they are names that evoke a special relationship. These are just some of … Continue reading