The South Dakota District is thankful for the partnership in the Gospel it has with our District congregations and schools. Working together we are able to share the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in various places around South Dakota and the world through many different types of ministry and service. Through our congregations’ generous offerings to the District, together we are able to:
• Support the mission and ministry of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
• Share the love of Jesus with our Native American brothers and sisters on two of South Dakota’s Native American Reservations
• Provide Word and Sacrament Ministry to students attending South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota
• Encourage and strengthen our District pastors, DCE’s, and Lutheran school teachers through continuing education
• Fund a chaplain to make hospital visits in Sioux Falls when a home pastor is unable to travel
• Support seminary education in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia through Rev. Alan Ludwig and Together In Mission
• Provide for Deaf Ministry in Sioux Falls and around South Dakota
These are just a few examples of the Gospel work that is made possible by the generous congregations of The South Dakota District. The District seeks to be good stewards of the congregations’ gifts and offerings. Below you will find pie charts of the District’s current fiscal year budget of expenses and projected support and income.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up