Mission Podcast

This interview on KFUO AM 850 with Erin Alter, director of the GEO Missionary Program for the LCMS Office of International Mission, provides a glimpse at the opportunities available for LCMS members to serve overseas for one- to two-year terms. (GEO missionaries are globally engaged in outreach and serve in a number of locations around the world in various capacities.) Learn more: Search the LCMS service opportunities database to learn more about what GEO service opportunities are available right now. Browse the online LCMS prayer cards database to learn about GEO missionaries who are currently serving around the world. Learn more about Sarah Cusson’s ministry in Hungary (Erin mentions Sarah during her interview). Contact the Office of International Mission to speak with a placement counselor. Call 888-843-5267 or send an email to mission.recruitment@lcms.org.

KFUO AM 850‘s Paul Clayton talks with Matt and Dee Dee Wasmund about their missionary work in Asia. Get involved: Download the Wasmunds’ prayer card or visit their online giving page to support their work. Learn more about LCMS witness and mercy ministry in Asia and South Korea.

KFUO Radio’s Paul Clayton talks with Rev. Dr. David Birner, co-interim executive director, LCMS Office of International Mission, about LCMS missionaries and witness and mercy work being carried out by the LCMS and partner/sister churches around the world. Learn more: Learn about the 90 countries where the LCMS supports mission work or maintains mission relationships. Search the missionary and personnel prayer cards database to find missionaries and other international workers. Connect with LCMS World Mission on Facebook.

On Veterans Day 2011, KFUO Radio’s Paul Clayton talks with Chaplain Mike Moreno, project manager of the Ministry to the Armed Forces’ Operation Barnabas ministry to veterans and their families. Learn More: Ministry to the Armed Forces website Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850  

On the eve of Veterans Day, KFUO Radio’s Paul Clayton talks with Chaplain Eric Erkkinen, associate director of the Ministry to the Armed Forces, about Operation Barnabas and its ministry to veterans. Learn More: Ministry to the Armed Forces website Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850

Photo: Tim, Heidi, Philip and Leslie Norton Listen to an interview with Tim Norton, who serves as a missionary in Guinea, West Africa, among the Maninka people. Learn more about LCMS work in Guinea. Pray for Tim and Heidi Norton and their ministry. Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850

Above: Erin Alter visits the classroom of a GEO missionary serving in Asia. Listen to this audio interview with Erin Alter, who serves the Lord as the program director for GEO missionary service at LCMS World Mission. She recruits and places individuals for GEO missionary service around the world. GEO missionaries are globally engaged in outreach and typically serve for terms of 1-2 years. Before joining LCMS World Mission’s staff in July 2004, Erin served as a long-term missionary in Japan through the volunteer youth ministry (VYM) program for more than three years. Erin shares about the many service opportunities that are available through LCMS World Mission and how anyone can get involved. Contact Erin: mission.recruitment@lcms.org or 800-433-6954 Learn more about GEO missionary service View photos of GEO missionaries in action Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850

Listen to these audio interviews from Rev. Dr. Jonathan Blanke and Cindy Charlton. Rev. Blanke is a career missionary with LCMS World Mission, and teaches New Testament classes for seminarians and college students at Japan Lutheran Theological Seminary and Japan Lutheran College. Cindy Charlton is a former LCMS missionary from California, currently living and serving at Izumi Lutheran Church in Fukushima City, Japan. She lives about 50 miles from the severely-affected northern coastal city of Sendai, Japan. These two share their perspectives of life in Japan in the week following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that has left a half-million people homeless and caused tens of billions of dollars in property damage and economic losses. Listen to Rev. Blanke’s interview Listen to Cindy’s interview Learn more and support the LCMS relief efforts in Japan Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850

Listen to this audio interview with Rev. Dr. Gary Rohwer, of People of the Book Ministries (POBLO). POBLO, an LCMS mission society based in Dearborn Heights, Mich., reaches out to Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs in the United States and abroad. Dr. Rohwer has served with numerous cross-cultural ministries—six years in Nigeria and ten years in outreach and church planting among Iranian Muslims and American born Gypsies in California. Since serving as Director of Missions for POBLO, Dr. Rohwer has worked to train and deploy missionaries from various ethnic backgrounds to share the Gospel with Muslims and others. Learn more about POBLO Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed, or access the files via the iTunes Music Store. Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850

Listen to an audio interview with Erin Alter, who serves the Lord as the program director for GEO missionary service at LCMS World Mission. She recruits and places individuals for GEO missionary service around the world. Before joining LCMS World Mission’s staff in July 2004, Erin served as a long-term missionary in Japan through the volunteer youth ministry (VYM) program for more than three years. She focused on teaching conversational English and also taught Bible studies. Erin shares about the many service opportunities that are available through LCMS World Mission and how anyone can get involved. Contact Erin: mission.recruitment@lcms.org or call 800-433-3954. Learn more about GEO missionary service Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed, or access the files via the iTunes Music Store. Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850