Troesters to Visit Supporting Congregations in Summer 2019

Map showing the states we will be visiting this summer: Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.

We hope to be meeting many of you in person this summer. We arrive in the U.S. in June and will be returning to Zambia in late August. In between, we will visit many of our sponsoring congregations in Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. We have been in touch with our supporters and many of them have agreed to host us for a worship service or other gathering. Our itinerary is below; however, there are still a few events pending. We are greatly looking forward to meeting new people and greeting old friends.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

Joe and Deborah Troester

Troester Itinerary 2019

• June 16: Christ Community Church in Columbia, Illinois
• June 22 and 23: St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bloomington, Illinois
• July 7: First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale, Illinois
• July 18: Supper Club at First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale, Illinois
• July 22 to 26: Summer Missionary Conference near Chicago, Illinois
• July 27 and 28: St John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oak Harbor, Ohio
• July 31: Luther Memorial Lutheran Church in North Syracuse, New York
• August 1: Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Fairport, New York
• August 3 and 4: Trinity Lutheran Church in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
• August 11 (morning): St Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church in York, Pennsylvania
• August 11 (evening): St Peter's Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Other events pending.

ELCA Global Mission Support and Contact Information

In all of this, we thank God for you—for your prayers and for your financial support. We couldn’t do it without you! If you wish to support us, you can give through your local congregation or through our new ELCA Missionary Sponsorship Page.

For more information on the ELCA’s Campaign to construct a national church office, re-furbish church buildings, and build new churches in Zambia, go to elca.org/globalministries and click on Zambia at the bottom of the page. You can contact us at Joe.Troester@elca.org and Deborah.Troester@elca.org

Joe and Deborah are ELCA missionaries living in Lusaka, Zambia, where they are serving with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zambia (ELCZa). Their daughter, Christa, is a junior at the University of Southern California, where she is studying French and Film & Television Production.