LCMS World Mission has more than 110 years of experience in foreign mission fields. The LCMS commissioned it's first overseas missionary in the 1890s to India.

Today, LCMS World Mission works with partner church bodies and emerging church bodies worldwide. We have active work or mission relationships in approximately 88 countries. For administrative and strategy purposes, international fields are divided into four regions, including Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America.

In each region, LCMS World Mission has identified "priority platforms" through which our work to proclaim the Gospel, plant churches, train leaders, facilitate strategic mission development, and lead global mission muliplication:

• Africa--Training national leaders, including pastors, evangelists, and lay leaders
• Asia--Reaching people through education and human care ministries
• Eurasia--Reconnecting people to their Christian heritage
• Latin America--Training national missionaries

In countries where a national church body is well established, LCMS World Mission seeks to lend its partnership to build the capacity of the national church, its leaders and members to enable it to be a missionary church itself. This may take the form of offering personnel to train leaders, or consulting services in areas of outreach or development where the national church has identified a need, or offering financial assistance to complete projects which contribute to building a healthy, self-sustaining national church.

In places where there is no established church or the number of unreached people is relatively high, LCMS World Mission offers career and volunteer personnel, financial, and other resources to establish Lutheran communities of faith, and to train national leaders, who will in turn evangelize new communities and train new leaders.