WELS HOME MISSIONS Board for Home Missions BHM

WELS HOME MISSIONS

Board for Home Missions (BHM) • District Mission Boards (DMB) • Pastor and Lay member from each Mission District (14) • Board for Home Missions (BHM) Chairman - Pastor Wayne Uhlhorn • Campus Ministry Committee • Partnering • Global Hmong Committee • Partnering • Missions Counselors (2) • Assisting • Cross Cultural Consultant (1) • Hispanic

126 total home missions 4 new mission starts/enhancements in 2019 88 new mission starts/enhancements since 2011 26 cross-cultural missions Give thanks to the Lord! WELS HOME MISSIONS

Home Missions Realities in 2019 • Lower Synod Support (CMO) • Designated gifts to the divisional fund less than in previous years • Higher than expected funding requests from current home mission churches • Blessed to spend down the divisional fund

Home Mission New Starts and Enhancements – Spring 2019 Oshkosh, WI Folsom, CA Houston, TX Wesley Chapel, FL

Core Group and WLS students meet in Houston, TX

Six Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary graduates assigned to home mission churches

Core group from The Rock Lutheran Church in Folsom, CA

Celebrating 100 years in 2020

Supporting cross-cultural and people-group ministry, the Pastoral Studies Institute (PSI) and WELS Mission Journeys Give thanks to the Lord! WELS JOINT MISSIONS

South Sudanese Ministry Rev. Peter Bur

Home Mission Partners • Church Extension Fund (CEF) • Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society (LWMS) • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) • Martin Luther College (MLC) • Christian Aid & Relief (CAR) • Women’s Ministry • Builders for Christ (KW) • Military Services • WELS Foundation • Praise and Proclaim Ministries • Multi-Language Publications (MLP) • WELS Mission Journeys

Church Extension Fund (CEF) A valuable partner of WELS Home Missions Redemption – Watertown, NY (2016) Shepherd of the Hills – Las Vegas, NV (2018)

WELS Church Extension Fund approved an additional $1 million grant in 2018

Request a Mission Speaker for your next Mission Festival! Visit wels. net/speaker-request for more information

All to God’s Glory! “If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4: 11