Lutheran Brethren World Missions (LBWM) is privileged to serve in four countries of the world: Cameroon and Chad in Africa and Japan and Taiwan in Asia. In each of these countries we work together with the National Church to evangelize, plant churches, educate, and minister to the spiritual and physical needs of the people.

CHINA & TAIWAN
The Church of the Lutheran Brethren sent its first missionaries to China in 1902. After mainland China was closed to missionary work in 1948, Lutheran Brethren World Missions began a ministry in Taiwan where many mainland Chinese fled to escape Communism. Since the arrival of our first missionary family in 1951, several churches have been planted and a seminary begun in cooperation with three other Lutheran missions and four National Churches. We have a growing work and presence among the Hakka people, one of the least evangelized people in Taiwan.

AFRICA
Our first missionaries arrived in Cameroon and Chad in 1920. Our work is situated in northern Cameroon and central and southern Chad. It comprises a population of approximately 2.5 million people who are divided into approximately fifty distinct language groups. It includes an initiative to minister among Muslims in Chad, where there are many unreached Muslim people groups. Our missionaries have been involved in translation and literature production ministries, evangelism, church leadership training, and medical and agricultural development programs.

JAPAN
Lutheran Brethren World Missions sent their first missionaries to Japan in 1949 and have had the privilege of helping establish a church there. There are now twenty-nine churches which have been planted and our goal, together with the National Church, is to continue planting churches in Japan, a nation that is less than 2% Christian. We cooperate with the National Church in a teaching English program by supplying teachers and directors. This program serves as a bridge and outreach to these communities.

ONGOING MINISTRY
God has blessed the work of Lutheran Brethren World Missions on each of these fields. Souls have been saved, independent national church bodies organized, and other ministries developed. In cooperation with the National Churches, we continue to transition with them as they assume the responsibility of being the indigenous and evangelizing church in that part of the world.

FUTURE
In consultation and partnership with churches that we have established, we are actively seeking new mission opportunities in Africa and Asia. The central focus of future mission work will be to plant churches by proclaiming the gospel to unreached people groups in order that the gospel may take root, resulting in congregations that are self-supporting, self-governing and self-propagating, and who join with the larger body of Christ to evangelize the world.

Rev. Matthew Rogness
Executive Director
Lutheran Brethren World Missions