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Welcome to the WELS Military Services website. You will find helpful and informative news items, articles, calendars of events, devotions, worship aids, and much, much more! Learn how you can become involved with supporting our WELS military members and their families in our "Get Involved" section.
Please feel free to contact any of the committee members found on the "Contact Us" page under the "Mission" tab with suggestions as to how we can improve our site.
Military Services is a unit of WELS Special Ministries. It depends heavily on donated funding from congregational members and WELS support organizations to carry out it ministry.
- WELS CHAPLAINS SERVE IN EUROPE,THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE UNITED STATES ...
We refer both civilians and military personnel living in Europe to our full-time civilian chaplain. Currently Pastor Joshua Martin is serving in this position. Working closely with lay volunteers, our chaplain serves people in a number of German cities, but he also travels to Italy, England, and Switzerland.
Our WELS chaplain and his members also reach out to unchurched, English-speaking people, focusing their efforts on the Frankfurt, Germany area. This effort is championed by the members of Our Savior of the Nations Lutheran Church, a new English-speaking congregation in Wicker, Germany. Our European ministry calls itself the Confessional Lutheran Christian Church.
In the United States 126 WELS Military Contact Pastors extend the gospel ministry of their local congregation to people at military installations nearby. Although many are unable to provide regular worship services and Bible classes at the military installation, all go out of their way to invite individuals and families in the military to participate in their congregation's ministry. WELS Military Contact Pastors frequently make personal pastoral visits, offering Holy Communion, devotions, counseling and other spiritual services.
In addition to referring people to the personal services of a WELS chaplain or Military Contact Pastor, the Military Services Committee maintains a ministry-by-mail program. Through this program those on our mailing list regularly receive Meditations, printed monthly worship services, cassette and videotaped worship services. When possible our chaplain also maintain e-mail contact.
Send the names and addresses of soldiers (and civilians) who live away from their spiritual homes by: - filling out an online referral form
- Or send their names and addresses to:
WELS Commission on Special Ministries
2929 North Mayfair Road
Milwaukee, WI 53222
