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. When the crops are sold, the proceeds go to Lutheran World Relief for the development of food security projects in places like Tanzania and Colombia. 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. Click here if you're interested in participating in a future mission trip to Pine Ridge.

Nicaragua:

The Iglesia Luterana Fe y Esperanza de Nicaragua (ILFE), or Lutheran Church of Faith and Hope of Nicaragua, 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. Click here if you're interested in participating in an upcoming trip.

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 program 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:

The quilters of Our Savior’s make hundreds of quilts every year, 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 this link. If you would like to join the OSL quilters, click here to volunteer.