Missions

vinyardMISSION AND OUTREACH
For the month of February, the Mission and Outreach Board is focusing on our support of These Numbers Have Faces. (https://thesenumbers.org) Led by Pastor Jim Pressnell (Portland) and located in Rwanda, TNHF “educates and equips Africa’s brightest young leaders, empowering them to cultivate thriving communities.” TNHF serves promising students from Rwanda, D.R. Congo and Burundi from poor, rural or post-conflict communities with a two-year pause because of COVID, our students have impacted in significant ways the lives of almost 30,000 people! All of their work is done through a Christian lens. For more information on These Numbers Have Faces or our scholar, Diana, see the Bulletin Board in the Narthex or the insert in the Sunday Worship Bulletin.


Danelle (Putnam) Shumann

We support a career missionary through The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the Dominican Republic. Deaconess Danelle (Putnam) Schumann, a native of Oregon, serves the Lord through helping to train women in the Dominican Republic, Latin America and the Caribbean to be deaconesses. In addition she works with people with developmental disabilities and those who care for them through the Good Shepherd Lutheran Homes. You can read more about Danelle, her husband Rev. Carlos and their mission at https://www.lcms.org/putnam.

You can support our missionary through:

Prayer: Pray for God’s protection over Carlos and Danelle and that He would sustain them daily. Please pray that the Lord would guide them as they work to support pastors and form women for diaconal service so that they may faithfully proclaim God’s Word and Christ’s mercy to the lost and broken-hearted. Finally, pray for the continued work of the group home and the wonderful youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live there. Let us give thanks to God that Carlos and Danelle are serving His children in this part of the world.


Financial Support: You can designate to support their mission by noting this in the memo link of your gift through CTV, by your support of our yearly Mission and Outreach Spring Fundraiser or by direct contribution to https://www.lcms.org/givenow/putnam.

Personal Outreach: Danelle’s email address is danelle.putnam@lcms.org. (Her Birthday is February 9)


Saving B.C. Salmon: the Gitanyow's plan to protect a watershed

Christ the Vine Lutheran Church hosts a mission trip to Gitanyow, British Columbia, each summer. We work with www.lampministry.org, to present a Vacation Bible School, Sports Camp, and a Community Picnic and Program.

July 2023 we made the trek northward again to present a Vacation Bible School to the children there. We also met with adults, and reconnected with the wonderful people there. Click here to read all about it!

Here is a recent youtube video on efforts by the Lax’Yip Guardians, (the eyes and ears of the Hereditary Chiefs who have been the stewards of their land since time immemorial), to help restore this beautiful, wild territory in the face of encroaching industrialization and climate change.


To see a list of all the ministries we help to support, click here!