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Completed or in-process projects examples of both local, regional, and international projects

April 2009. Completed or in-process projects examples of both local, regional, and international projects. St. Michael Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Completed or in-process projects examples of both local, regional, and international projects

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  1. April 2009 Completed orin-process projects examples of both local, regional, and international projects

  2. St. Michael Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, Russia More than $1 million in gifts through Fan into Flame have provided for the renovation of this huge church returned by the Russian government.

  3. An overflow crowd listens to a concert from the hallway of St. Michael’s in Petersburg. Sacred music Gospel outreach concerts have reached 14,500 people during renovation.

  4. New Churches in India The goal is to begin 50 new churches in India. Our Savior Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas, made the decision to allocate its $50,000 Fan into Flame gift for new church starts in India. This total will help the India Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELC) purchase one new church site each year for five years.

  5. Construction of the Central Asia Lutheran Seminary, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan It will also serve Concordia Church as a worship center and as the national church body headquarters. The first worship service was held on Palm Sunday, April 5, 2009, in the new Bishkek building. The church was blessed by Pastor Mansur before the people entered. The service was lead by Bishop Kenjebek, Pastor Mansur, and Deacon Sergei.

  6. Lucumo, Peru LCMS volunteers help rebuild Lucumo in January 2008. Relationships building will help establish long-term ministry in the area under a missionary to be placed in 2009 with Fan into Flame funds.

  7. Ablaze! Bible Listening in Lutheran Schools Project 30 percent of Lutheran schools are participating in the Bible Listening Project by listening to digital recordings of the Bible recorded in a dramatic style. More than $1 million in Fan into Flame gifts provided the digital Bibles to youth, Lutheran teachers, and the students.

  8. Student offerings are providing digital Bibles in seven languages for new Bible listening groups in India. India Evangelical Lutheran Church President Samuel trains pastors to use digital players (Proclaimers), through a partnership with Hosanna/Faith Comes by Hearing.

  9. Cristo Rey, Moline, Illinois This outreach to Hispanics in Moline, Ill., began with a Fan into Flame gift to the Central Illinois District.

  10. Cristo Rey outreach

  11. New LCMS International Missionaries Placed Shauen and Krista Trump, missionaries to Uganda, are 2 of 16 missionaries placed in 2008-09 as a result of initial funding from Fan into Flame gifts.

  12. Ascension Lutheran Church (SELC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada Fan into Flame funds raised by Ascension Lutheran support the congregation’s relationship building with Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist immigrants, their neighbors in inner city Montreal.

  13. Amigos en Cristo Southwest Florida Amigos en Cristo (Friends in Christ) is a ministry of the Southwest Florida Outreach Council of the LCMS. It is partially funded by Fan into Flame. On of the ministries is to link migrant workers with government assistance agencies.

  14. Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Buenos Aires, Argentina Being upgraded through funding received through Fan into Flame

  15. New Church Starts and Revitalization $2 million in Fan into Flame gifts from donors and grants from Thrivent for Lutherans Foundation are helping fund 25 of 166 Covenant Congregations that are planting new churches like theAlley, as well as239 churches engaging in a transformation process. The welcome sign for theAlley, a Cottage Grove, Minn., church plant started by Woodbury Lutheran Church in Woodbury, Minn., meeting in a local school.

  16. Grace Lutheran Church, Midland, Texas The board of missions at Grace Lutheran used part of its Fan into Flame gifts to establish a youth puppet outreach ministry. They put together a Wild West Buckaroo Revue show.

  17. Sri Lanka Other mission training centers like this first one are being built on the tea plantations in Sri Lanka with Fan into Flame gifts. They serve as a combination itinerant seminary graduate evangelist (probationers) residence and as day care/worship centers.

  18. First Immanuel Lutheran, Cedarburg, Wisconsin In 2008, used part of its share of Fan into Flame funds to prepare school kits for Uruguay.

  19. In early 2009, members of the congregation used Fan into Flame gifts to travel to Guatemala to run a medical clinic, fix a church roof, and build a concrete block house for the family at the right.

  20. Ghana Seminary President Kieschnick meets with students attending the Ghana seminary in the church’s national office building, where they also sleep on bunk beds in two offices.

  21. A new seminary is now under construction nearby in Accra because of funding from Fan into Flame.

  22. China Lutheran Seminary in Taiwan The new eight-story China Lutheran Seminary was dedicated in Taiwan in August of 2008. Fan into Flame gifts partially funded the construction.

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