2025–2027 Mission Grant #19
Support Rev. Roberto and Katie Weber
LCMS Missionaries to the Dominican Republic, North America | $10,000
About This Mission Grant
Rev. Roberto and Katie Weber are serving the Lord as career missionaries through the LCMS in the Dominican Republic. Rev. Weber assists in the training of pastors, evangelists, and deaconesses at the Concordia del Raformador Seminary in the Dominican Republic. Besides teaching at the seminary, he serves as pastor at the mission station in Santiago.
In Latin America, the Lutheran Church is growing so fast that pastors and deaconesses cannot be trained quickly enough to meet the need. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. The missionaries in the Dominican Republic continue to raise up laborers from all over Latin America to go back to their countries and communities to share the Gospel, plant new Lutheran congregations, and show mercy care to all. The seminary is currently training 47 pastoral candidates from 12 Latin American countries.
This grant will support the work of Rev. Roberto and Katie Weber.
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Rev. Roberto and Katie Weber with their children Evangelina, Johann, and Johanna. Roberto was born in Maciá, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He studied humanities and social sciences in Argentina, and received a degree in theology from Concordia Seminary, Buenos Aires. Roberto served his vicarage alongside LCMS missionaries in the Dominican Republic where he met Katie who was also serving as a missionary in the Dominican. Roberto has been called to serve as an instructor at the seminary there.
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In Latin America, the Lutheran Church is growing so fast they cannot produce pastors and deaconesses quickly enough. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. The people pray earnestly and continually that of the Lord of the harvest will provide for them, and the seminary in the Dominican Republic continues to produce laborers from all over Latin America to send into the harvest fields. We are currently training 47 pastoral candidates from 12 Latin American countries.
Deaconess training at Concordia el Reformador is also important. Here is a picture of our deaconess candidates as they prepared to serve alongside pastors in the Latin America, providing expertise in mercy care and compassionate outreach to women.
Training pastors to be out in the community sharing the love of Jesus is what Pastor Weber will be doing at Concordia el Reformador, our seminary in the Dominican Republic. Rev. Weber will work to assist in the training of pastors, evangelists, and deaconesses. He will teach any classes needed at the seminary and will mentor the pastors who have gone through programs as well. Rev. Weber will also minister to the LCMS missionaries in the Palmar Arriba area with Word and Sacrament ministry.
Deaconess graduation. In 2022, we had 105 deaconess graduates from 5 different Latin American countries. Thanks be to God for these amazing servants to our Lord Jesus Christ and to His Church.
Children in the Dominican Republic learn to pray to their Heavenly Father because He sent His Son, Jesus, to bring them forgiveness, life and salvation.
Rev. Roberto and Deaconess Katie Weber are serving in Dominican Republic to train more and more pastors and deaconesses from that region to go back to their countries and communities to share the Gospel, plant new Lutheran congregations, and show mercy care to all.
