Global Mission

The ELCA walks with more than 80 companion churches in other countries to participate in God’s mission. Through these relationships, ELCA members see how people’s lives are touched by the gospel, how their lives are transformed and renewed, and how their communities live in hope.

In response, we share our gifts and talents to address the root causes of poverty and hunger and meeting human needs, fight malaria and HIV and AIDS, build communities that coexist in peace, and prepare women and men to preach the good news throughout the world.

Our synod has active partnerships with the Lutheran Church of Peru and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic.

Walking and working together, we seek to accompany our companions. Accompaniment is a walking together in a solidarity that practices interdependence and mutuality. We live this out in its relationships with global companions, striving to share God’s love and participate in God’s mission together:

  • Mutually
  • Inclusively
  • Vulnerably
  • Empowering
  • Sustainably

How can we respond?

  • Pray about world hunger
  • Educate yourself and your congregation about both local and global hunger issues
  • Share stories to better under the complexities of hunger
  • Give to ELCA World Hunger: encourage your congregation to take a special offering.
  • ELCA Global Mission

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith.

~ Colossians 2:6–7a

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