Story by Kevin Armbrust | Photography by Erik M. Lunsford | Winter 2023
“It is difficult to know where the Holy Spirit takes us, what will happen in the future,” noted the Rev. André Luiz Müller, president of the Lutheran Church of Uruguay (LCU). The LCU is growing, yet it is only present in a few areas of Uruguay. “We are not currently in each department [state] … because Uruguay is a difficult country to work in.” But Müller’s hope is to “take the Gospel to every corner of this country!” Recently, that plan began to take shape in new ways.
This past August, two new locations for preaching and teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ were dedicated in the northwest region of this small country in South America. Uruguay is a largely rural land full of cattle, sheep and canola. German settlers brought Lutheranism to the country long ago, and now the LCU is renewing this work, continuing to spread the Gospel and working to plant churches.
LCMS missionaries in Uruguay work with pastors of the LCU and of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil to spread the Gospel and serve God’s people. The Rev. James Sharp, regional facilitator for the LCMS Office of International Mission, has worked in the country with his wife, Angela Sharp, since 2015. Recently, the Rev. Philip Jaseph and his wife, Deaconess Rachel Jaseph, were called to join the work in Uruguay.
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