GLOBAL MISSIONS
Learn more about what’s happening around the globe through the efforts of our global mission partners.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Our Mission Partners
India Transformed
India is a major emphasis in our global outreach. We partner through India Transformed! to minister to the whole person. We sponsor children’s programs, women’s empowerment centers, community transformation centers, and building a new college. Learn more about how you can pray, give, or serve. Contact Pastor Roger Theimer.
College Construction
We are helping build and begin United International College in Bangalore, India. This college will make affordable and accessible higher education for many of those in lower social-economic groups. Construction is underway and anticipates completion by May 2025. Financial gifts are being applied toward final construction costs or a scholarship fund. To get an inside look at construction progress and hear from some of the students, go to this link: https://youtu.be/EpkcOToorNk.
Cambodia
King of Kings has worked together with other Lutheran churches and our Concordia Schools toward the courageous goal of building a school and starting a church in the Prey Veng province of Cambodia. This is a Christian school in a village that is 95% Buddhist. It opened in the fall of 2023 with 225 students and currently has 319 students. Already they need two more classrooms. The newly formed church, Life of Christ Lutheran Church also meets in the wonderful facility.
King of Kings works closely with Garuna ministries and partners with them to assist in leadership development. We helped fund the building of a training center known as LISA, Luther Institute of Southeast Asia. We have visited them on a mission trip, developed personal relationships, and continue to support training more leaders.
For $30/month, your congregation and school families can sponsor a child attending the Omaha Garuna School in Cambodia! Please go to the Garuna website to set up your sponsorship — and receive your child’s brochure shortly thereafter! You can also sponsor a teacher for $100/month.
Children's HopeChest
We partner with Children’s HopeChest to sponsor a CarePoint in Los Amates, Guatemala. We are excited about our many opportunities to be generous in the poorest country in Latin America. Over 120 members are sponsoring a child in this community. This also funds the holistic ministry that gives the gospel while helping empower an entire community. We strive to send two mission trips per year. Investigate upcoming trips through the link below.
Africa
The Lutheran Church of South Sudan (LCSS) is a refugee church body displaced by political conflict and genocide in their homeland of South Sudan. They are now responding to a new refugee crisis only 3 weeks old. Several towns have been chemically bombed, targeting civilians. People fled for their lives about 75 miles to the refugee camp in the town of Nassar, Ethiopia. The U.N. relief has been delayed and food shortage is critical. King of Kings already purchased 2 tons of food which gives only momentary relief for these 35,000 refugees. Please help us in this effort. We are the primary source of food for the early days of this refugee camp. Donate by clicking this button. All donations to this site until June 30 will be applied to critical food relief.
Our mission team was there personally with the leadership of the LCSS to give this gift. We work closely in support of their seminary, a college, and church in Gambella. Trained pastors from this location have been sent all over that region of Africa. Many people are coming to Christ!
GLOBAL MISSIONS TRIPS
Mission Trips & Faith Trips
King of Kings strives to equip believers with a global perspective of the church. Christ called us to be one body of believers. Part of that is partnering with people and ministries in other countries and cultures. Together we can do much more than alone. Short-term trips, or Mission Trips, help develop those relationships that benefit both parties. Certainly, lives are transformed.
We also offer Faith Trips, building community among travelers who enrich their faith and their relationships by touring the likes of “Footsteps of Jesus,” the “Footsteps of Paul” or other life enriching travels.
Check out our Mission and Faith Trip page to learn more about upcoming opportunities.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Latest News & Updates
James 5:16
Hello friends and supporters!
So grateful to have you all thinking of us, praying for us, and uplifting us. August has been a challenging month on the church building front. We’ve had a few members come forward with some ongoing sin struggles..some wilingly and some unwillingly.
I’ve found the 12 steps, and Christian counseling to be fantastic tools for deep healing which addictive behaviors requires, and Thang and I are so grateful to have these tools to help our Vietnamese church members. Because of these tools, they have a safe space to confess their sin, recognize their patterns and pains, and receive healing. Jesus is the one doing the healing, we are just the ones passing on the message and listening to their pains. It’s a great system!
Please pray for our church members about this, and please pray for us. It is vulnerable, heart wrenching work, and when we open our heart to other’s pains, we also feel their pain, and carry it with us. Sometimes carrying that pain bleeds into our family life. We need the wisdom and strength of Christ to continue!
Deep, generational healing can and is happening. We are grateful, and we are tired. Thank you for praying for us, thank you for supporting us so that we can do this work!
P.s. LOTS of progress with relationships in the ag/environmental community last month! Thank you for praying!!!
Prayer Requests
-Pray for the church members who are seeking healing from sins and addictions. Pray also for those who are suffering in solitude and silence that they would find a safe community at Logos church!
-Pray for Thắng and I as we serve, navigate, and love our hurting members
-Pray for strength for Thắng as he continues to preach more often
-Pray for Vi Sinh Xinh, the environmental business and we may be establishing officially this month. We are praying to add our 3rd, 4th, and 5th customer this month!
Cultural Moment
The Garuna Christian School is thriving, teaching over 300 students each day! In fact, it’s growing so quickly that we conducted a mini-campaign and added an additional two-classroom building on the Prey Veng campus!
With pledges from 3 Omaha partners, we were able to begin the project. There was $28,000 remaining from the original building and an additional $30,000 pledged which will pay for this additional space. Check out the full update here.
- Generous Gift from Bright Funds: An anonymous supporter made a recommendation to support a cause in India during a corporate acquisition that raised $78,787 from 144 donors via Bright Funds. This gift was dedicated to supporting the Women’s ARISE! Empowerment Program. This support allows more women to undergo training and addresses pressing needs, like purchasing new equipment and enhancing our training. These mothers will now be able to support their families with a decent income. A heartfelt big thank you for this great introduction that resulted in such amazing generosity!
- Championing Donors: Two donors converged to cover all the items on our Special Needs List, significantly enhancing our Children’s Program with improved technology, educational games, nutritious meals, and transportation capabilities.
- Scholarship Endowment Fund: We received a bequest gift that will help build the nursing program at the college and will seed the College Scholarship Endowment Fund. Contact us to learn more about setting up an Endowment Fund to honor a loved one.
- New Donor Sponsors 24 children: When asked why, we were told God decided the best investment he could make was to sponsor 24 children for $1,000 a month. Imagine the impact this gift will have on these children that will give them opportunities for a promising future!
- The Goat Hope Project: Initiated by King of Kings Lutheran Church in Omaha as part of plan to create a sustainable future, this pilot program will lead the way to create sustainable income, feed families and provide nutritous milk for children. Be sure to read the touching stories below about the widows who have found hope and encouragement in their time of great sorrow.
- 70 New Child Sponsorships hail from India: A new campaign directed at local staff, teachers and friends of our partner has launched to create a plan for a sustainable future. Congratulations for a successful new venture!
Overall, the foundation work has been fully completed.
Cambodia Mission partnership Updates
Springing Into Action in Prey Veng
Yes, it’s officially spring in the USA…and it’s nearing the “hot season” in Cambodia. But that doesn’t slow down the construction crew. Once they get started, they move quickly! Check out the progress made in recent weeks!
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