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Coming Quickly!
100 Years of Hispanic Ministry 
in the LCMS

Begin the countdown and let’s start planning celebrations! 

Let’s remember. Let’s honor the people the Lord has sent into His harvest field throughout these hundred years. Let’s celebrate! 

LCMS Hispanic Ministry Timeline

1925

1926

1927

1931

1931

1938

The TX District Mission Board resolves, “We recommend that steps be taken to begin work not only among the Mexicans of Mexico, but also in our own State..."

Sergio Cobian arrived in San Antonio, Texas and began to evangelize.

Spanish speaking ministries were begun in Three Rivers y Vanderbuilt, Texas.

Rev. Andrés Meléndez became pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, San Antonio

Rev. Bruno Martinelli is installed as pastor for Italian and Mexican mission work in Los Angeles, California.

Miss Alice Fiene and women from St. John's Lutheran Church of Orange, California evangelize in Santa Ana, California, and form a mission society.

¡Envíanos la información de tu ministerio!
¿Cuándo comenzará el primer ministerio hispano de su distrito? ¿Cuándo comenzó su iglesia hispana? ¿Quién fue su pastor misionero? etc...

1978 - 1987

The Institute for Hispanic Ministries at Concordia University, River Forest (Chicago) provides in instruction in Spanish and prepares twenty pastors.

2003

La primera Convención Nacional del Ministerio Hispano de las iglesias LCMS se llevó a cabo en Los Ángeles, California

2003

The first National Hispanic Ministry Convention of LCMS ministries was held in Los Angeles, California

2007

The Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute was established by the Rocky Mountain District in El Paso, Texas, in 2007 and held its first classes in 2008 with Rev. Richard Schlak as its director.

2019

The Hispanic Missionary League was incorporated as 501c3 to be the legal entity and fiscal agent and means of enacting priorities of the LCMS National Hispanic Convention.

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VIII National Convention

VIII Convención Nacional

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info@hispanoslcms.com

18220 Upper Bay Rd., Houston, TX 77058

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