August Mission Moment

What an exciting time

Forty children recently received life-changing surgeries for crippling deformities or burns at the Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre in Tanzania — and that was just one week! The ability to perform that many operations is just one of the benefits of the expanded training and program development at the center.

Your contributions allow ELCA missionaries Dr. Mark and Linda Jacobson to be a part of this important growth. “What an exciting time of great thanksgiving this is for our ministries in Tanzania,” they say.

“Our training efforts to address the huge shortfall of health care professionals have leaped ahead. In the last few months we have been registered as a training center and our assistant medical officer training program has been accredited.” Also, they add, “We have taken the final steps toward opening our own nursing college in February 2013!”

The center has also become an international training center for African surgeons to study laparoscopic surgery and join the global movement to this video surgical care.

“These are some of the programs and ministries that you have been supporting so generously. We have great opportunities to serve 
and to share together in these ministries and outreach,” Mark and Linda say.

Your gifts are helping to make a world of a difference in God’s global mission! Thank you!!

Over 240 missionaries
 serve in over 50 countries.  To find out more about how to directly support a missionary either personally or through adoption by your congregation, visit: www.ELCA.org/missionarysponsorship

We cannot be quiet about what we have seen and heard! Acts 4:20

Christine Donahue

TLGCS Mission Interpreter Coordinator

Send me your congregation’s God Stories! cedonahue@gmail.com