The Mission Phoenix

I hope that you are visiting this site because you share a passion for evangelistic Lutheran mission work: the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ leading to the conversion of souls and the formation of Lutheran churches.

The purpose of this website is to strengthen the global mission work of the LCMS.

The approach is to inform and educate LCMS members of our Synod's global mission program by providing a platform for LCMS World Mission stakeholders to tell their story.

The criteria is integrity.  We welcome honest dialogue, factual accounts, and verifiable statements.  We do not welcome political gamesmanship, kingmaking, and rumors.

THANKS to all who have emailed their comments, corrections and suggestions for improvement!!  Keep them coming!

NEW:  Poll results are in!  See the results HERE!

OK - We asked this question: "Do you like the BRTFSSG recommendation to reorganize program boards into two commissions, one for national missions, and the other for international missions?"

RESULTS:  Yes: 11 votes      No:  18 votes     Undecided: 8 votes   Total: 37 votes

A good, scientific poll meets several criteria: 1) The questions are clear and unambiguous; 2) The sample is sufficiently large;  and 3) The sample is representative of the targeted audience.

How did we do?  Well, on #1, the question was pretty clear and the choices of answers were about as unambiguous as we can get:  Yes or No or Not sure.  For #2, in a church body of 2.5 million, 37 votes is a pathetically miniscule percentage.  However, for the vote to be accurate, what we really need is the opinion of the voting delegates to the 2010 LCMS convention. The rest of us don't really matter.  There are about 1200 voting delegates.  37 out of a possible 1200 or so is still pathetic.  So, we did not do well on criteria #2.  For criteria #3, other than random, happy coincidence, there is absolutely no correlation whatsoever between those who voted in The Mission Phoenix poll, and those who will vote at the convention. 

Additionally, the number of undecided votes is large enough to swing the results in either direction.  Therefore, with the utmost confidence, we can predict that any similarity between The Mission Phoenix poll results and the actual vote on this item at the 2010 LCMS Synodical convention will be pure, random, happy coincidence! 

THANK YOU FOR VOTING!