James Puotyual, Pastor
Pastor James Puotyual was born in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan. In 1985, due to civil war, he was forced to move to Ethiopia and Kenya, living for a few years in tents in United Nations refugee...
El Shaddai and Bethel Bible College
Pastor Flores is the pastor of El Shaddai in Maneadero, Mexico. Pastor Flores has already started two mission plants and hopes to open a third soon. Mission 2 Mexico, a group of NALC churches that has built approximately 45...
Oromo Evangelical Church (Columbus, OH)
Beginning with ten Oromo immigrants in 1998, the congregation has now grown to over 120 communicant members, and more than 90 children under the age of 16. Approximately 35% of the members have arrived in the United States within...
Victory Ministries
With administrative offices and support furnished through the NALC’s Advent Lutheran Church in North Charleston, SC, and having received NALC grant funds, the on-the-ground location of Victory Ministry’s work is in West Africa, currently in Liberia, with some outreach...
St. Elias Christian Church (Chicago, IL)
An NALC congregation in Chicago that has received NALC grant funding. With services in Arabic, St. Elias’ mission states: “We believe in Jesus Christ as our own Savior. Because of that we serve immigrants who came from the Middle...
Pueblo de Dios Lutheran Church (Compton, CA)
“Sharing the spiritual bread and material bread” is Pueblo de Dios’ mission. The congregation serves and reaches out to low-income people in Compton, California, many of whom are Hispanic. “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he...
Oromo Evangelical Church of Denver
Targeting the many Ethiopian communities in the metro Denver area, the mission of Oromo Evangelical Church of Denver is “to declare and demonstrate the power of the gospel of Christ with clarity, simplicity and entirety, thereby restoring mankind to...
Oromo Evangelical Church (Houston, TX)
The Oromo Evangelical Church of Houston (OEC) has worshiped in Houston since 2007; it joined the NALC in 2011 and was incorporated in 2012, also receiving NALC grant funding. During these years it has reached out to the community...
Nile Evangelical Church (Rochester, NY)
“Healing the broken soul” is the mission statement of Nile Evangelical Church, which serves the Sudanese community in Rochester, NY. A congregation of the NALC originally established in 2005, Nile Evangelical proclaims the Word of God through preaching, the...
Life Stream Oromo Evangelical Church (Chicago, IL)
This congregation’s mission statement reads: “Bring people to salvation in Jesus Christ and disciple them in their relationship to Jesus Christ…” The congregation, located in Chicago, seeks to build the Body of Christ, first through reaching out to the...