Ablaze Partners Network is a new resource helping Lutheran congregational leaders improve mission in these five basic areas of congregational life: worship, discipleship, outreach, service and church leadership.
This Case Study (revised May 23, 2009) by Rev. Kevin Wilson, Ohio District Mission and Ministry Facilitator offers an in depth review of opportunity the LCMS has to bring its witness of the Gospel of Christ to the people of West Virginia.
This is an easy reference guide for conducting a successful and spiritual appeal that fits the needs of your congregation. Congregations have been successful in raising funds by following one of these five plans. Each plan is unique in its approach but they all share three core elements of a successful campaign which are: recruit, educate and invite!
This resource links to a .pdf document describing the specific mission targets for which FIF funds will be used. The missions are organized using the promise Jesus made to the disciples in Acts 1: "You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth."
If St. Paul didn’t have a famine in Jerusalem to write the Corinthians about and instead had a special funding appeal to reach the “ends of the earth” with the “Good News” do you think Second Corinthians chapter 8 might have sounded something like this?
Looking for some outreach ideas from LCMS sources? President Cripe suggests that you can’t do better than here: http://www.conversationsofgrace.org/.