41 world missionaries partner with over 400 national pastors to conduct outreach and train more than 380 students for service in Christ’s kingdom.  

World Mission supports mission work:

• on the Apache reservations in Arizona, where the gospel is being shared in eight churches, one preaching station, and two Lutheran elementary schools;   
• in Africa, where missionaries and national church partners are exploring mission work in ten additional African countries;  
• in Asia, where the newly formed Asia one team is coordinating resources and partnering with sister synods to reach out with the gospel to Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, and Muslim individuals in 11 different countries; 
• in East Asia, where missionaries are coaching and mentoring 45 mission group leaders in spite of tightening security and Asia Lutheran Seminary is reaching hundreds of new students through new online classes;  
• in Latin America, where the Academia Cristo online training tool is walking more than than 1,300+ people through self-led classes and 48 locations have been identified as new world mission starts;   
• in Europe, where national churches are partnering with WELS missionaries and the Pastoral Studies Institute (PSI) to train the next generation of church leaders;   
• through Multi-Language Productions, which has produced confessional Christian content in more than 56 languages and on a variety of platforms.