Deaconess Grace Rao, director of LCMS Deaconess Ministry, and Deaconess Tiffany Manor, staff with Lutheran Church Charities, talk about what a deaconesses is and what she does. The deaconesses also share about their recent trip to Liberia, Africa, providing training and teaching about opportunities for women to serve in the church as deaconesses. [Pictured above, [...]
Monday, June 20, 2011
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More than 100 people attended three mercy conferences in Latvia this May, organized by LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) at the request of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (ELCL) Archbishop Janis Vanags. “The majority of participants were women already involved in diaconal (mercy) work. They are responsible for feeding people, helping the poor [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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The most recent Mercy Medical Team (MMT) to serve in Kenya treated more than 2,000 patients and led a new home-based care training program to equip deaconesses to help ailing Africans with physical as well as spiritual needs. “Home-based care is very important in Kenya and other African countries where AIDS is a huge problem,” [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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Deaconess Grace Rao has overseen diaconal project development on behalf of LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) in Malaysia, India, Africa, and the United States. In February, she traveled to South Africa to work with LCMS partner churches to bolster mercy ministries, particularly deaconess ministry. At the Lutheran Seminary Tshwane (LST) in Pretoria, South [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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By Sarah Schafer This year marks the beginning of new opportunities for deaconess ministry in the India Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia (ELCM). Since the early 1920s, deaconesses have served The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, sharing the Gospel as they carry out human care ministries, teaching the Christian faith, and [...]
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
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