Global Partners
FLC Local & Global Ministry
To offer support for and create opportunities to live out Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbor.
FLC Local & Global Ministry Team members:
Sharon Turnboom, Lorraine Carlson, Janet Ward, Ann Beck, Kathleen Braddy
Local & Global Ministry Team Guiding Purpose:
Through our Local & Global Ministries at FLC, we seek to recognize the oneness and beauty of God in the diversity of all God’s people. To this end we offer support, encouragement, and opportunities to live out Jesus’ commandment to love God and our neighbor, that our hearts and vision might be opened to God’s grace and purpose.
Following the example of Jesus, Local & Global Ministries strive to:
- Nurture inclusive relationships of mutual respect between members of FLC and our ministry partners, both in Duluth and the global community.
- Walk with the most economically and socially marginal in the partner community in their struggles and suffering, accompanying them in ways that foster independence and self-reliance for individuals, and promote peace, righteousness, and justice in the entire community.
“So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us…”
2 Corinthians 5:20
Global Ministries
El Salvador/Sister Parish
The El Salvador Sister Parish relationship was begun in 1998 with a delegation to the community of San Antonio los Ranchos, El Salvador and has continued with delegations north to south as well as from south to north, along with supporting scholarships for college students since 2005. The relationship focuses on deepening one’s faith, fostering awareness and learning, and building community.
For more information about the organization that connects us, visit sisterparish.org.
Dory Sjoblom
dstinkrain@aol.com
Petrozavodsk (Russia) Ingrian Lutheran Church
FLC has a Friendship Congregation relationship with the Ingrian Lutheran congregation in Petrozavodsk, Russia. This relationship has been expanded to include several other partnering Lutheran churches under the banner Vision Petrozavodsk, the mission of which is to accompany the Petrozavodsk congregation in their ministry of rebuilding the Ingrian Lutheran Church in Russia. Click here for information about Vision Petrozavodsk on the Northeastern Minnesota Synod ELCA website.
Paul Anderson panderso@d.umn.edu
South Sudanese Refugee Camps (Uganda)
This is a community development project carried out jointly by South Sudan refugees living in two refugee camps in Northern Uganda and a team in the US comprised of FLC members and board members of SSLCD. The refugees have organized their community and developed programs and co-operative economic development projects to meet their needs. FLC members contribute to their efforts by carrying out joint peace building projects as well as with financial assistance.
First Lutheran Church
1100 E. Superior St.
Duluth, MN 55802
