Completed or inprocess projects

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March 2009
Completed or in-process projects examples of
both local, regional, and international projects
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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.
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An overflow crowd listens to a concert from the
hallway of St. Michaels in Petersburg.
Sacred music Gospel outreach concerts have
reached 14,500 people during renovation.
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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.
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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.
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Lucumo, Peru
LCMS volunteers help rebuild Lucumo in January
2008. Relationship building will help establish
long-term ministry in the area under a missionary
to be placed in 2009 with Fan into Flame funds.
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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.
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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.
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Cristo Rey, Moline, Illinois
This outreach to Hispanics in Moline, Ill.,
began with a Fan into Flame gift to the Central
Illinois District.
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Cristo Rey outreach
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New LCMS International Missionaries Placed
Shauen and Krista Trump, missionaries to Uganda,
are 2 of 21 missionaries, (filling 12 missionary
positions) placed in 2008-09 as a result of
initial funding from Fan into Flame gifts.
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Ascension Lutheran Church (SELC), Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Fan into Flame funds raised by Ascension Lutheran
support the congregations relationship building
with Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist
immigrants, their neighbors in inner city
Montreal.
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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. One of the ministries is to link
migrant workers with government assistance
agencies.
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Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Being upgraded through funding received through
Fan into Flame
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New Church Starts and Revitalization
2 million in Fan into Flame gifts from donors
and grants from Thrivent for Lutherans Foundation
is helping fund 25 of 166 Covenant Congregations
that are planting new churches like theAlley, as
well as 239 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.
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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.
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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.
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First Immanuel Lutheran, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
In 2008, used part of its share of Fan into Flame
funds to prepare school kits for Uruguay.
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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.
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Ghana Seminary
President Kieschnick meets with students
attending the Ghana seminary in the churchs
national office building, where they also sleep
on bunk beds in two offices.
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A new seminary is now under construction nearby
in Accra because of funding from Fan into Flame.
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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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