World Impact

The New Life Evangelistic Center works for poor and homeless people who suffer from drug addiction and abuse. The center provides food, clothing, shelter, education, and mental and spiritual health care services to low-income people. It offers more than 150,000 meals and over 80,000 social service contacts throughout the United States. The New Life Evangelistic Center operates its free stores in the states of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. Headquartered in St. Louis, the center provides volunteer opportunities for data entry, meal preparation, cleaning and word processing. It runs various training programs to provide on-the-job training skills. The center additionally offers a range of counseling and psychological services. The New Life Evangelistic Center organizes workshops, seminars, fairs and classes. Its project renovation program provides heating, cooling and plumbing systems.

The mission of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is to make known the love of Christ by word and deed within its churches, communities and the world. It ranks as one of the largest Lutheran church bodies in North America and has more than 6,000 congregations served by more than 9,000 professional church workers. The synod has always placed a great emphasis on education. LCMS World Mission trains, sends, and supports called career missionaries and appointed volunteer missionaries throughout the United States and in various countries throughout the world where there are mission stations, partner churches or mission relationships. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod s offices are in St. Louis, Mo.