Macau Summary Page

The LCMS and Lutherans from Hong Kong began serving refugees in Macau in October 1950. The “mission” was made official in 1952 and by 1953 had significant involvement from ‘The Lutheran Hour’ with rebroadcasts from Hong Kong. Rev. Louis Jasper later began work with the deaf in Macau in the late 1960s.

The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod (LCHKS), based in nearby Hong Kong, became an LCMS partner/sister church in 1977. The LCHKS served, and continues to serve, Lutheran congregations in both Hong Kong and Macau.

LCMS World Mission reinitiated work in Macau in 1988 with the organization of Concordia Welfare and Education Society Macau. Later in 1995, the International Lutheran Society of Macau (ILSM) was founded for the registration of Concordia English Center in Macau.

The Center uses a combination of English-as-a-Foreign-Language teaching, small-group Bible studies and various fellowship activities to gather and evangelize both Cantonese residents of Macau and Mandarin-speaking migrant workers from surrounding areas. Career, GEO and short-term missionaries all comprise vital components of the LCMS missionary team in Macau. Many short-term teams also serve alongside the missionaries for 1-2 weeks, providing much-needed encouragement and support to resident missionaries and offering special English and Bible camps and special events, which attract many seekers to the Center.

Since 2003, an Alliance missionary pastor from the China Evangelical Lutheran Church, the LCMS partner/sister church in Taiwan, serves side-by-side with the LCMS missionary team to reach out into the community to proclaim the Gospel.

In the mid-1990s, LCMS World Relief and Human Care provided support towards Christian education for children with disabilities.

• Alissa Asmus
• John Hinkle
• Hannah Kiefer
• Eric Kunkel
• Elliot and Serena Derricks
• Matt and Kim Myers
• Sharon Owens
• Michael Wu

LCMS World Mission operates the Concordia English Center in Macau, which is a special administrative region of China where only 7 percent of the people claim to be Christian. Through the ministry of the center, many Chinese people improve their written and spoken English, attend free English Bible study classes and hear the Gospel for the first time. Your gift to support Gospel outreach in Macau will support the English center and general administrative costs associated with keeping the facility open and staffing locals.

The center is staffed by short-term, GEO and career missionaries who balance a schedule of teaching free and paid English classes, Bible studies and other outreach activities in the community. There are also a number of short-term teams that visit the center each year to volunteer as English teachers and share Christ’s love with the people of Macau. The center recently celebrated 10 years of ministry—praise God! With continued prayer and financial support, the Concordia English Center will continue to reach hundreds of men, women and children in Macau each year with the saving Gospel message of Jesus Christ.

Field Office Address:
Concordia English Center
Rua de Pequim 174
Edf. Centro Com. Kong Fat, 6 A-B
MACAU

Website: www.concordiaenglish.org