Global Mission

Alternative Christmas Gifts

Christ the King’s Global Mission (GM) Team is selling Alternative Christmas Gifts again this year. Give a gift to our Tanzanian partners in faith and you will receive a specially-crafted Christmas ornament and card, made by GM team members, to share with a loved one of your choice.

Your contribution funds the gifts listed on the order form to be given to our Tanzanian partners, where they impact people’s lives in many ways:

Education (scholarships, supplies, facilities, even soccer balls)
Health services (training, medical equipment, medicine)
Economic improvement (encouraging small businesses)
Worship and faith (facility care, Swahili Bibles)

We offer 14 different gifts. Because you can’t “browse” our display, all are gifts you’ve known and appreciated other years. Our dairy goat has a new 2020 look, though – each one is wearing a mask! (Click here to see!)

Click here to see our list of gifts. Global Mission team members will fill your order and send it to you by U.S. Postal Service. (Thanks to a supporter’s generosity, there will be no charge to you for packing and shipping.)

Thank you for your support this Christmas season!

Alt Gifts Form

Travel with Global Mission

Apply for a CtK Global Mission Scholarship to Travel to Tanzania
Scholarship funds are available for anyone from CtK planning to go on a international mission trip.
For more information on the trip, click here. To apply for a scholarship, download the application form (PDF) and send a completed copy via email to Tim Van Rooy.

A bit about our partnership

Bega Kwa Bega (Shoulder to Shoulder)
Bega Kwa Bega is the name of our synod’s companion relationship with the Iringa Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Bega Kwa Bega—“shoulder to shoulder” in Swahili—describes both the model of accompaniment with the Iringa Diocese and the umbrella name under which a variety of programmatic efforts are carried out, including:

Congregational visits
Scholarship support for secondary and theological students
Congregational projects
Various other efforts around health care, agriculture, support for pensions for retired pastors, wells, sanitation and hygiene, conservation, and microfinance—to name just a few.

Iringa Diocese, ELCT
It is because of the generosity of our congregation, we have been able to do so much for the Iringa Diocese including:

Support capital improvements
Provide scholarships at several schools
Support economic development through agricultural initiatives
Organize trips to Tanzania for short-term missionary work

As we continue to address the challenges our brothers and sisters face each and every day, we welcome you to join us and continue to bring God’s love to the Iringa Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. There is nothing more rewarding than building life-long relationships with our brothers and sisters in Tanzania.

Our Missionaries
Christ the King sponsors two missionaries through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and our Global Missions Team. Christ the King's current missionaries are Dr. Mark and Linda Jacobson. The Jacobsons have been medical missionaries in Tanzania since 1985. Mark is a physician serving as Director of Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre in Tanzania, Africa.

The Global Mission Team

The Global Mission Team serves Christ by bringing God’s love through Jesus Christ to those in other parts of our world. The Global Mission Team currently works with the Iringa Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT).

Our purpose is to sustain an outward focus for our congregation, reminding us of our larger mission in serving Christ throughout the world. We work to educate the congregation, the community, and the Saint Paul Area Synod about the improvements, accomplishments, and impact our resources have on our brothers and sisters in Tanzania.