This website is designed to facilitate the 2013 reunion
of the American Lutherans who served in Ethiopia beginning in 1957.

Place: San Antonio, Texas
Dates: February 24-27, 2013           
Where: Four Points by Sheraton Hotel

The American Lutheran presence in Ethiopia began in 1957
when the American Lutheran Church sent Herbert G. Schaefer as director of a new mission.
He designed a mission enterprise with evangelism centers in congregations
and programs in agriculture, community development, education, and medicine.

Missionary personnel from the United States and Canada went to serve.

Other American Lutheran personnel went to Ethiopia 
to join the international staff of the Lutheran World Federation’s
Radio Voice of the Gospel (RVOG) which opened in 1963.

The American Lutheran Mission, the Swedish Evangelical Mission,
the German Hermannsburg Mission, and the Norwegian Lutheran Mission
jointly established a seminary, a college, a radio studio, and a publishing house. American Lutherans joined the staffs of these institutions.

With evangelical roots going back to the late 1800s and twenty thousand members,
the Ethiopian Evangelical Church - Mekane Yesus (EECMY) was organized in 1959.
Subsequent missionary personnel went to Ethiopia at the invitation of the church.

In January 2009, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church - Mekane Yesus,
with a membership of five million members,
celebrated her 50 year Golden Jubilee.
The church continues programs of evangelism, development, and peace.