Faith In Action

Faith In Action
Christians of all ages are invited to assist with outreach programs for mission and established congregations throughout the United States. This assistance can be offered individually or as a group of two or more people.

Visit our Faith In Action gifting page, and help support the ministry, an individual, or a team.
Visit our Summer Ministry Assistance gifting page, and help support those spending a summer of outreach.

Webinars
• for recruiters and churches hosting teams (recorded)
• for volunteers (recorded)

» FIA Team Request Form (for WELS congregations with Connect login) (online)
» FIA Team Request Form (for congregations/missions without a Connect login) (online)

FIA Downloadable forms:

(If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your machine, download a free copy from the Adobe website.)

Team Types

Travel Canvass Witness (TCW)
Typically, college students from campus ministry programs.
ACTIVE during school breaks and vacations (1 – 2 weeks).

Youth In Service (YIS)
Teens assisting in outreach within a supervised environment.
ACTIVE during school breaks and vacations (1 – 2 weeks).

Summer Ministry Assistance (SMA)
Lay men and women assisting congregations with outreach.
ACTIVE during the summer (10 weeks)

Evangelism Mentoring Team (EMT)
Adult lay men and women able to commit long term, assisting congregations with follow up, encourage congregational members, and do outreach.
ACTIVE at any time of the year (1 – 6 months)

How sites are chosen

The congregation develops a ministry plan for use of Faith In Action participants.

Requests for outreach teams are made by the individual congregation/mission and submitted to their district mission board.

All Faith In Action team requests must be submitted to district mission boards by the individual boards self-determined submission date. The district mission board will, in turn, prioritize and then submit team requests to the WKW office. All submissions will be for requests to be accomplished the following calendar year.

Variety of opportunities

Telephone Canvass
Telephone calls are made to people in the target area from either the home base or on-site. People contacted will learn about the church and be invited to a worship service or special event.

Street Canvass
Door-to-door contacts range from simple door hangers to extended questionnaires.

Follow-up
Personal witness calls will be made to households identified by telephone and families already part of the congregation’s prospect list.

Creative Christian Outreach
This outreach includes but is not limited to a wide variety of activities ranging from special event services to sporting camps.

Summer VBS Assistance
This includes pre-canvass, vacation Bible school teaching and training, and post-VBS follow-up.

Mission Assistants
WELS members who temporarily fill and train members for various ministry roles such as bookkeeping, accounting, maintenance, teaching, evangelism organization.

Costs involved

Established congregations – financial assistance to and from sites is available when needed.

Mission congregations – financial assistance is available from WELS Board for Home Missions’ and WELS Kingdom Workers’ grant programs.

Mission assistants – minimal costs are involved for those who volunteer as Faith In Action ministry assistants.

» Current Volunteer Opportunities


For more information, contact Dale Mueller, Lay Ministry Services-domestic.