Ministries and Missions

The Texas District of the LCMS sponsors a wide variety of ministries:

Campus Ministries: There are nine campus ministries in the Texas District to minister to college students.
Disaster Response Commission: Emergency response and management when a disaster happens in your community.
LINC - Houston: A network of local churches that have joined together in a common mission to impact the city of Houston with the love of Christ.
LINC - North Texas: Creating innovative new ministry efforts for Urban Ministry in the Metroplex and supporting urban ministry in existing congregations.
M2C - Mission 200: The goal of the Texas District LC-MS is to begin 200 new Word and Sacrament ministries in Texas between the year 2004 and the year 2017.
Mission and Ministry Facilitators
POBLO Texas: People of the Book Lutheran Outreach is a mission society dedicated to reaching Muslims both domestically and internationally.
Texas Church Extension Fund: Extending God's Kingdom by boldly and responsibly assisting congregations to acquire land and buildings and by linking investors with congregations.
Texas Partners in Mission: Reaching the lost in Texas, one mission at a time, one partner at a time and one relationship at a time.

Associated Organizations

Can-Do Missions: Short-term mission trips to locations around the United States and the world for youth and adults.
Lutheran Foundation of Texas: A planned giving ministry.
Lutheran Hour Ministries: A global media and congregational outreach organization.
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries: Camp Lone Star offers camp programs with a Christ-centered staff.
Lutheran Social Services: Serving the most vulnerable members of society.
Lutheran Women's Missionary League: Equipping all women of the Texas District Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod through inspiration, education and discipleship, enabling them to reach others with the Gospel as they live in service to the Triune God.
What A Way: The LCMS initiative focused on recruiting and retaining church workers