LHF News
Your Giving Tree can point the way to Jesus Every day, LHF receives far more requests for the books of our Lutheran faith, translated into the languages of the people, than we can answer. This Christmas season, there are a variety of projects still awaiting funding to print. Pass Along…
“Like rain after a long drought,” parents and pastors in the Philippines now have a Lutheran Bible book to teach their young ones who Jesus is. The release of A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories in the Tagalog language coincides with the opening of LHF’s newest international office in Manila.…
How does culture shape the way a missionary shares the Gospel — or how a translator translates? It’s an intriguing question arising in Kazakhstan, a primarily Muslim nation in Central Asia that borders Russia and China. The ethnic Kazakhs (as opposed to the Russians who have settled in the country)…
Can a church sign make a difference? Maybe not in all contexts, but in the center of French-speaking Montreal, Quebec, Ascension Lutheran Church’s sign has proven to be one of the most effective methods of making a Christian connection. “Our community [in Montreal] has always been a heavy immigrant-cycling neighborhood,”…
Remember the many songs of the Christian faith you learned as a child? Even today, many of those songs remain deeply rooted in your memory, continuing to teach the Word years – even decades – after you first learned them. In Africa too, music is a huge part of daily…
If you were to walk into a Starbucks in certain neighborhoods of St. Paul, Minn., much would be the same as any Starbucks. The rich aroma of coffee would fill the air, and the people sipping their drinks would be engaged in lively conversation. But one thing that would be…
When LHF was founded in 1992, there were no Lutheran churches in Thailand or Cambodia. There also was no publicly available Internet, and only about 2 percent of Americans had rudimentary cell phones. Very few printers offered digital printing. Thirty-three years later, much has changed! Most importantly, there are now…
This May, Rev. Orlando Ramirez of Iglesia Luterana Confesional Conexion in Naples, Florida (pictured above) celebrates his one-year anniversary joining The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, a journey that could not have happened if not by the Holy Spirit leading him to confessional Lutheran teachings taught in LHF’s Spanish texts. Read on…
In the 2010s, LHF translation work flourished in Madagascar, an island nation off the east coast of Africa. Coordinating LHF’s work was Rev. Dr. David Rakotonirina, then president of the Malagasy Lutheran Church (Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy – FLM). The books were eagerly received by the FLM’s 3.5 million members, and…
Are you a pastor who’s up for the adventure of a lifetime? LHF is searching for volunteer instructors at the Concordia Lutheran Institute for the Holy Ministry (CLIHM) in South Sudan. Each teaching session is a 2-week intensive, with dates available from the end of August through early December 2025.…