Mission Team Partners
Faith Lutheran Church partners with the following people and organizations to support their work for the Gospel. You can read a brief description of each mission partner below, and a link is provided if you wish to visit their website to learn more.
Operational Serve International
The mission of Operation Serve is to motivate and mobilize concerned Christians to assist in the work of God among the poor and destitute in underserved and unreached places. OSI seeks to strenthen existing ministries in their presentation of the Gospel of Christ by communicating the love of God in both Word and Deed.
Faith has sent a short term mission team to work with OSI in Mexico City in 2016 and 2023. God empowered them to help people see by fitting glasses, dispensing medical and dental care, giving haircuts, distributing food and toys, and sharing God's love with them. OSI follows up with all those who give their lives to Christ and connects them with a local church to increase their faith.
World Mission Prayer League
World Mission Prayer League (WMPL) is a Lutheran community committed to know Christ, pray for His kingdon, and share the gospel and themselves with those who don't know Him. Their passion is to evangelize the world wherever people don't know Jesus as their savior.
The World Mission Prayer League has workers in 20 countries throughout the world along with a team dedicated to supporting the work. WMPL does not ask for funds directly but rather prays for God to supply the necessary means to send missionaries around the world. Our donations go directly to the Ekka family who came to Faith to share about their work in India.
Grand Avenue Community Outreach
Grand Avenue Community Outreach (GACO) is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization providing social services and outreach programs to the people of Northwest Iowa. Faith also support the Grand Avenue Community Kitchen, serving meals twice a week.
His Hands Extended offers free food (in cooperation with the FOod Bank of Iowa) and clothing to individuals in need. In cooperation with Free Clinics of Iowa, there is also free medical and dental services available. Many other social service agencies are located onsite, including Birthright, the Red Cross, and All Those Yesterdays (a mental health service).
Falls Community Church
Fall Community Church in Sioux Falls is a sister church to Faith Lutheran. Their members came as refugees from different countries in Africa. The church joined the LCMC in 2011 and purchased their building in 2014.
This is the first South Sudanese church in North America. They are so proud and excited to have their building. "We give God the honor and the Glory for His wonderful work for us as refugees. We came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and it became our home so that we can preach and teach the Words of God to our children at large." Faith is planning to work on a mission project to help repair their building.
LifeKids
LifeKids Spencer is a Christian after school program for KinderKids-5th grade. Activities include a Bible lesson, reading books alone or to staff to improve their reading skills, community service projects, and field trips with games, physical activities, arts and crafts.
Our donations help to support the children's program by providing tuition support for those families who can't afford to send their children to LifeKids. This mission of Faith Lutheran reaches children who have never learned about Jesus, their Savior. Their families also benefit from the children's faith with some joining Faith.
Youth With A Mission - Scotland
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a nondenominational mission organization that trains people to share their faith through many ways such as music, creative arts, volunteering, and sports camps. Their purpose is to know God and make Him known.
Faith Lutheran is supporting Marlee Nicholson at YWAM as she shares her faith and music with people who don't know Jesus as their Savior. Marlee spent a year at Faith as our worship director while she was working at Ingham Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camps. She has participated in a Discipleship Training Course and traveled to Scotland as her home base.
Lutheran Asian Ministries
Lutheran Asian Ministries works in southeast Asia with local churches to train, equip, and empower leaders to spread the gospel. THey establish relationships with the governments and the church leaders in these countries.
Out donations are sent through Pastor Tom Lovan of Morningside Lutheran in Sioux City to build churches, educated leaders, drill wells, and help the poor in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar.
GoServ Global - Domestic
In the aftermath of emergencies, GoServ Global from our local area supports communities with domestic mission trips and Christ-centered disaster response efforts.
GoServ Global's Domestic Relief Team working in Huxley, Iowa, after the derecho caused widespread damage across the state that affected thousands of people.
Lutheran Congregations In Mission for Christ
The LCMC Synod is an association of congregations who are working together to go and make disciples of all nations. As a mission partner of Faith, our synod office receives funding throughout the year.
Our donations are used for salaries, travel expenses, producing informational materials, hosting the annual gathering, loan support for new pastors, and new church planting.
ATLAS of Spencer
Atlas is a non-profit, faith-based mentoring organization that strives to help the hurting, equip believers, and unite the community. As a mission partner of Faith, this organization recieves funding and prayers to further their work.
Our donations empower ATLAS to help people from our community who are struggling with problems like addictions, relationships, depression or any life trial. Staff provide counseling, temporary babysitting, transportation to work and appointments, and mentoring.
International Messengers
International Messengers believe that the spiritual revival of the Church is a primary key to effectively reaching this world with the love of Christ. They are partners with the local church to equip and send people into the world with the truth of the Gospel.
Our representatives are Josh and Whitney Smith and their family. They work with refugee children at the school in Pawel, Uganda. They also train and support leaders in refugee camps in South Sudan. Our donations support not only this family of missionaries but also a child in Pawel.
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Wycliffe Bible Translators are working to bring the Bible to all people in their native, heart language. As a mission partner of Faith, this organization receives funding throughout the year to advance the gospel in Vanuatu.
Louis and Jane Faulstich, originally from Ruthven, Iowa, are missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators and Christian Ministry Alliance. They are ministering to the people of Vauatu in Melanesia, which is off the east coast of Australia. Our donations support them as they complete the New Testament as well as teach language skills to the Vanuatu people.
Friends of Madagascar
Friends of Madagascar Mission works with the Malagasy Church to support the programs that they deem most important. They are currently raising funds to keep girls in school because of the high rate of child marriages.
100% of our donations are sent to the church in Malagasy to fund Ejeda Hospital nutrition program because patients have to supply their own food, sharing the gospel in the prison, or training evangelists for rural preaching.
Upper Des Moines Opportunity
Upper Des Moines Opportunity (UDMO) is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping build stronger communities by addressing the effects of poverty on individuals and families. They run several programs designed to help and support children and families living in poverty. Some of their programs include Head Start (a free, federally funded educational center), energy assistance, a food pantry, and rent and housing assistance.
Our donations are used to help many of these programs, especially the cost of running the food pantry. In addition, Faith collects food donations each month to send to UDMO's food pantry.