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We were ready to take Minot by storm with a new, innovative approach for starting a church. It was 2014, childcare was a massive need in a still-booming North Dakota, […]
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About Mara Rugen
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Entries by Mara Rugen
Member roles from scratch
2021/06/10 in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs /by Mara Rugen“My name is _______ and I’m the official _______ at my church.” How easy is it for you to fill in that second blank? God the Holy Spirit gives gifts, […]
From one background to another
2021/06/03 in Asia, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World Missions /by Mara RugenThis is a world missions story that starts in the good ol’ U.S. of A. In fact, you could say that the mission work is mostly being done there. But […]
Becoming Bible teachers
2021/05/27 in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs /by Mara RugenIn 2019, I began serving as a full-time online missionary with TELL Network. Much like its sister Spanish ministry, Academia Cristo, TELL’s vision is to reach people online, teach the […]
Equipped to welcome
2021/05/20 in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs /by Mara RugenBethel Lutheran Church in Menasha, Wis., is a proudly bilingual congregation. Members from all backgrounds are happy to point to their two bilingual pastors as evidence that we are a […]
Gifts for God’s glory
2021/05/13 in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs /by Mara RugenOne of the things you realize very quickly in the new mission process is that no two new mission churches are the same. It makes sense that a new mission […]
Looking forward and back
2021/05/06 in Africa, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World Missions /by Mara RugenOn Saturday, April 17, 2021, my wife, Leslie, and I landed in Lilongwe, Malawi. As we landed and looked forward to our new life living and working in Africa, we […]
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