In The World

Missionaries:

OSL sponsors Dr. Kristopher and Rebecca Hartwig as ELCA missionaries in Tanzania. Dr. Hartwig works with local hospitals, setting up palliative care teams who travel to area villages. Coming soon: Letters from those who receive help from our missionaries.

Amazing Grace Growing Project:

Working with OSL farmers and farmers from area partner congregations, Our Savior’s invests in seeds and donated land and time from farmers. The money from sold crops goes to Lutheran World Relief for the development of food security projects in places like Tanzania and Columbia. Farmers here help farmers there. In the last four years, OSL has raised over $160,000, all of which has gone directly to Lutheran World Relief to fund projects that assist people with long-term sustainability.

Pine Ridge:

Working with the Pine Ridge Retreat Center, a ministry of the ELCA South Dakota Synod, OSL travels to the Pine Ridge Reservation annually on a co-mission trip. While there, participants serve through light construction, facilitating after-school youth activities at the Retreat Center, and helping out with various other projects. Participants are also served, as area leaders share the joys and challenges of the reservation and as the people of Pine Ridge welcome and share their lives, stories, food, and selves. The next trip to Pine Ridge will take place in October of 2010. Click here if you're interested in participating.

Nicaragua:

The Lutheran Church, Faith and Hope of Nicaragua or Iglesia Luterana Fe y Esperanza de Nicaragua (ILFE) is one of two companion synods of the South Dakota Synod. Our Savior’s has connected to this synod by sending groups to Nicaragua to walk with the local church and experience life as Nicaraguans do. A trip is being planned for spring 2010. Click here if you're interested in participating.

ELCA World Hunger Appeal:

Every year, Our Savior’s contributes to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal, which works to alleviate hunger domestically and globally through relief, education, development, and advocacy.

Train up a Child:

Working through South Dakota’s relationship with Cameroon, another companion synod, the Sunday school offerings at OSL go to the Train up a Child program.  This programs provides scholarships for children, especially girls and disabled children, to attend a Lutheran school in Cameroon. Lives are changed through education and the children of OSL are making that happen through their giving.

Quilts:

Every year, the quilters of Our Savior’s make hundreds of quilts which are given to Lutheran World Relief to be distributed around the world. They are tangible signs of God’s presence for many who have been displaced by war, famine, or other natural or man-made disasters. See how LWR is using them by following the link below. If you would like to join the OSL quilters, click here to volunteer or find out more about the program.