1. What Would a Missionary Say?
Lanny Moore – Texas Partners in Mission
Workbook Page 43
30th Annual Texas CEF Conference — March 2-4, 2018

2. What Would a Missionary Say? Texas Partners in Mission
Lanny Moore

3. Texas Partners In Mission
What is it?
TPIM is the support arm for mission outreach in the Texas District, Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
“Reach the lost in Texas, one mission at a time”
Supplements the District Mission budget through gifts from individuals and
congregations and support groups

4. THANK YOU! Texas CEF and TPIM Partners in Mission 100 Plus 1 Program
$71,000 matched by CEF
30 new investments for CEF
THANK YOU!

6. 30th Annual Texas CEF Conference — March 2-4, 2018
What is Mission?
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
a specific task with which a person or group is charged;
calling or vocation;
a body of persons sent to perform a service or carry on an activity
a ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propagate its faith
30th Annual Texas CEF Conference — March 2-4, 2018

7. Mission Work in Texas Who does TPIM Support?
Lutheran Inner-city Network Coalition
also known as LINC
The ACTS Network
Lutheran Literacy Project
Campus Ministries around the state
Eternity Matters Most
T2C2

8. Mission Work in Texas! — Texas District, LCMS
122 new mission congregations since 2004
One new congregation every 6 weeks for the past 12 years
9,000+ people hearing about Jesus through these new missions
TEXAS PARTNERS IN MISSION

9. Mission Work in Texas! — Texas District, LCMS
150+ men & women serve as missionaries
62 Texas District Ministry Partnerships
15+ languages used to preach Gospel in Texas
$2,800,000 dedicated to mission work in TX
TEXAS PARTNERS IN MISSION

10. Mission Work in Texas
By some estimates, almost 1200 people move to Texas each day
Many of those have never stepped foot in a church
How do we reach those who have not heard the Good News?

11. Missionaries and Their Stories
Margaret Peterson
Lutheran Literacy Project
Rev. Richard and Marcia Mittwede
University Lutheran Church Campus Ministry at University of Texas

12. Biblical Support for TPIM
Romans 10: 14-15
“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?”
“And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?”
“And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”
“And how can they preach unless they are sent?”

13. Biblical Support for TPIM
“As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news?”
See Isaiah 52:7
Romans 12:6-8

14. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! As We Close…
A simple math problem for you: 4 x 6 = 24 (a tribute to the Fluegel Family)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

15. Contact Information
Lanny Moore
Director of Development, TPIM