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This clip is an excellent overview from the World Missions Today DVD produced in 2008 by BT Media and WELS World Missions.

During a roundtable discussion, our students describe the difficulties they face because they do not know English. They relate how the WELS Model Program at Gethsemane, Milwaukee, Wis., has helped them improve their lives.

Hear our students bravely read aloud their English compositions to a large audience on Visitors Night. Learn about their lives, challenges, and dreams for the future.

In Feb. 2004, the WELS Model English Language Outreach Program opened at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wis. Representatives from congregations and missions can receive training on how to set up volunteer-based adult outreach programs, starting with a few volunteers and teacher resource materials.

Where do our Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary professors teach? If you assume it’s the Mequon, Wis., campus, you’re only partly right. For the full answer, you might want to get out your globe.

This past June each of our 12 districts met in convention. They meet every other year to discuss the blessings and challenges of ministry in their part of the country. This month we look at the South Atlantic district. With God’s blessing it is the fastest growing in our synod and WELS’ resources are playing a role.

One of the greatest strengths of our synod is our called work force. Plans are in place to identify young people with particular gifts for ministry – from outside our traditional prep school system – and to encourage them towards working full time in the Lord’s kingdom. Our preparatory schools have played the primary role in training future workers.

West Orlando Florida is growing and saw an abundance of opportunities for outreach. They partnered with Martin Luther College and brought in a “dream team” - four students who came for a week to help with the effort. They worked with the congregation to identify prospects and visit nearby neighborhoods.