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Each year Luther Academy conducts a conference for Lutheran pastors in South America. With the assistance of Rev. Carlos Schumann, President Emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Republic of Chile, we identify pastors from various countries that would benefit from our teaching and choose topics that address the needs of South American churches. 

Luther Academy conducts conferences for Lutheran pastors and evangelists every year in West Africa. Dr. Paul Kofi Fynn, the President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana, works with Luther Academy to arrange for the teaching of Lutheran doctrine to pastors from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo, Liberia and Nigeria. These conferences have been conducted since 2005 and have dealt with topics such as The Power of God’s Word in Multicultural Africa, Law and Gospel and the Work of the Holy Spirit. 

In 2008 Luther Academy began conducting theological conferences for Lutheran pastors in India. Each year about 500 pastors are in attendance. Those who attend come from a number of Lutheran churches in the Indian province of Andhra Pradesh. Luther Academy depends on the assistance of David and Paul Dasari, whose father founded one of the Indian Lutheran churches, to organize these conferences. The Academy cosponsors the conference together with St. James Lutheran Church in West St. Paul, Minnesota, St. John Lutheran Church in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Luther Academy began work in Indonesia in June 2009. Lutheran pastors from twelve church bodies were invited. Most of these churches were founded by missionaries embracing both the Reformed and the Lutheran Confession. Today in Indonesia some of the church leaders are expressing a desire to be truly Lutheran. About 75 pastors attended the theological conference conducted by the LutherAcademy in North Sumatra. Indonesia is the most Muslim country in the world in terms of numbers. The need for the pure Gospel is nowhere more evident. Dr. Bonar Lumbantobing, professor at one of the theological seminaries, assists in the organization of this conference. Gifts made to support the conference were matched by Glory of Christ Lutheran Church in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

In 2008 fourteen men from Uganda were studying theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa and were students of Pastor Daniel Preus who was teaching there. Three of these men have been ordained and are serving congregations in Uganda. The rest will graduate and be ordained within the next three years. Now the Lutheran Church Mission Uganda, a very young church, has five pastors. Soon they will have quite a few more. As this young church grows, it is critical that the pastors remain on a solid theological foundation. In order to assist them, Luther Academy conducted its first annual theological conference in Uganda in December, 2009. The topic was Church Fellowship. The next topic in 2010 was Preaching Law and Gospel. With God’s blessing the future of the Lutheran Church Mission Uganda will be bright.

In 2010 Luther Academy conducted its first theological conference in Togo, our first venture into francophone Africa. The topic was Preaching Law and Gospel and Rev. Daniel Preus served as the instructor, Rev. Michael Amegah acting as translator. About 25 pastors from Togo attended the conference and participated enthusiastically in both the lectures and discussion sessions. Luther Academy now hopes that it can make this conference in Togo an annual conference.

In 2011 Luther Academy began work in Central America. We invited pastors from a number of Central American and Carribean countries to attend a theological conference in Antigua, Guatemala from October 4-7. The instructor of this conference was Rev. Sergio Fritzler, the president of Seminario Concordia in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Fritzler taught on the topic of The Office of the Holy Ministry. This conference was made possible by a generous gift that provided half the cost of the conference for the next three years.

The Lutheran Church of Madagascar is one of the fastest growing Lutheran Churches in the world. Each month they add approximately twelve new congregations to their church body. They are a Confessional Church that maintains six regional seminaries and one graduate seminary. The pastors of this church have asked Luther Academy for assistance in providing continuing education classes to them. Luther Academy does this by bringing professors and pastors, who are the experts in their fields of study, to lead these conferences. However, the costs to travel to Madagascar are of the highest of all the conferences Luther Academy provides. Please consider giving a gift to Luther Academy to answer the request of the faithful pastors of Madagascar.