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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson anoints the hands of missionaries at the Summer Missionary Conference held in late July at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis.
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- English teachers, Morgan Dixon, Caroline Keenan and Laura Fentress don kimonos at a traditional tea ceremony in Japan. The women were invited to the home of a member of the local church who is also a tea master. Note the crucifix display in the upper right corner, a Christian adaptation of the traditional Japanese household shrine.
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- Martin Zimmann and his son, Seth, are shown on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem. Martin and his wife, Angela, are special assistants to Munib Younan, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and are co-pastors at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, the English-speaking congregation in Jerusalem.
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- Megan Ross plants an avocado tree in Indonesia. Megan is a teacher at the Huria Kristen Batak Protestan Deaconess School in Baliage, North Sumatra.
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- On a recent visit to Tanzania, Clifton Eshbach (left), assistant to the bishop in the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the ELCA and Kurt Strause, pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa., met with ELCA missionary Barbara Robertson in the city of Morogoro.
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- Justin and Kari Eller serve as missionaries in La Paz, Bolivia. Justin is a pastor of Iglesia Evangelica Luterana Boliviana and a pastoral team educator who helps educate national Bolivian missionaries. Kari works with Justin in translation, curriculum development and education methodologies. Before moving to Bolivia, Kari taught Spanish for four years in the Chicago Public School system.
More than 240 ELCA missionaries, volunteers and global personnel are serving in over 40 countries, working side by side with their neighbors. They teach, preach, heal, build and grow this church.
