Faces of Faith – Ivan and Gina
It had been a year since Ivan and Gina first received an invitation to Cross of Christ. When they first came to a service, a year later, they came by […]
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Faces of Faith – Jesse
/in Faces of FaithThe pandemic had disrupted any sense of normalcy. As a newer church plant, we instantly lost our public school worship location. We had property with an old plant nursery on […]
Do miracles still happen in our mission fields?
/in Asia, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsA woman is bitten by a cobra. Our evangelist is there. He prays for the woman. She lives. People in her village are stunned. No one survives a cobra bite. […]
Love your neighbors – of all faiths
/in Joint Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsMy wife and I spent a week with a young man and his wife who have a heart for reaching out to those of Muslim faith. During the month of […]
It’s good to be back with changes!
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsThe COVID-19 pandemic hit us six months into our existence as a mission and as we all experienced, plans came to a halt. We pivoted as many churches did, finding […]
The seven provinces of Costa Rica
/in Faces of Faith, Latin America, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsThis past March I visited a number of our Academia Cristo students in Costa Rica. The last time WELS missionaries had been in the country was in March 2018, and […]
A new campus ministry in Cleveland
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs“I have this group of about ten college students coming to church.” That’s how the conversation started. Further communication turned into an opportunity for WELS Campus Ministry Mission Counselor Dan […]
Faces of Faith – The Mwale Family
/in Faces of Faith, World MissionsAnderson Mwale began working with the Lutheran Mobile Clinic as a maintenance worker for the Msambo village clinic in January of 2020. He was married to Annah, and had a […]
All twenty-two and Clarice, too
/in Africa, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsDo I have a story for you. A seven-day Psalms study with African pastors in Lusaka, Zambia, might seem a story without sizzle. But this one: wow. In a way, […]
Sharing light . . . and s’mores
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsZion had been thinking about starting a new site for gospel ministry for about a decade. Lord willing, in the summer of 2022 we will be starting worship in the […]
New evangelism resources in Vietnam
/in Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsI’m sitting at a laptop in a government hotel room in Hanoi, Vietnam. Ten days of quarantine ahead. I’m ready to teach a class to Hmong student pastors. Due to […]
What’s a Missionary? You are a Missionary!
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsPicture Philip being called by God and told to go visit the Ethiopian Eunuch in a chariot in the middle of the desert. God basically teleports Philip to the scene […]
Equipped for ministry – Seminary graduation in India
/in Missions Update news, NewsletterDear Friends in Christ, Greetings from Christ Evangelical Lutheran Ministries (CELM) of India. We have a Lutheran seminary in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India to teach God’s Word and to train […]
Home mission milestones – Spring 2022
/in Missions Update news, NewsletterJoin with us in celebrating and praising God for the major church milestones that these home mission congregations experienced in Spring 2022: Good Shepherd – North Liberty, Iowa Good Shepherd […]
Little pastor
/in Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsForty years ago, his pastor called him “Xiao Mushi” (little pastor). He was planting seeds in this young boy’s heart. Michael was just a second grader. He lived in a […]
Mission mysteries
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsThe wick was missing. Five or six weeks in a row. A member would light one of two oil candles on our cafeteria table altar and then discover . . […]
If those doors could talk
/in Apache Reservations, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World Missions“Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in” (Psalm 24:7). Psalm 24 paints an interesting picture for us. […]
Prayers for a church
/in Europe, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsIn 2010, Caroline McCatty prayed that God would help her and her husband Lawrence to find a really good church. At the time, the couple was in the process of […]
Opportunities for Hispanic outreach
/in Joint Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsMore than 2,000 WELS members in North America report that Spanish is their first language. They worship in well over 100 congregations, with almost 20 of those having regular services […]
One day makes an eternal difference
/in Faces of Faith, Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsAlthough our first encounter took place over six months ago, I remember it like it was yesterday. Last year was The Vine’s first time hosting a booth at Joplin, Mo.’s, […]
Strawberry fields forever in Vietnam
/in Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsPsalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey (strawberries?) to my mouth! Despite COVID-19 restrictions and obstacles, our mission to the Hmong people in Vietnam […]
Mission exploration in an unlikely place
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsWhen you think of places that are ripe for the harvest and logical locations to begin mission exploration, you probably start thinking big cities and highly populated suburban areas, right? […]
Our first church
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsOften mission churches start out by meeting in their pastor’s living room. That’s how The Vine, in Coeur d’Alene got started. A small number of us met for Bible study […]
Reflection in the water
/in Faces of Faith, Joint Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsIt was a long year of online learning for Brenda. The plans to attend a university in San Diego in person were altered by the pandemic. Brenda chose to return […]
World missionary commissioned to London
/in Europe, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsMissionary Michael Hartman was commissioned as a new missionary to London, and Rev. Dr. Jonathan Bare and Rev. David Bivens were installed as part of the Pastoral Studies Institute (PSI) […]
It felt like home
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsIt had been over a year since we first invited this family to join us for one of our community events and worship. It was over a year before they […]
Opportunities for women’s ministry in Latin America
/in Latin America, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsWe praise God for blessing the work of Academia Cristo! Currently, more than a million people have liked the Academia Cristo Facebook page, more than 500,000 people have downloaded the […]
Home mission church milestones – Fall 2021/Winter 2022
/in Missions Update news, NewsletterDuring the past few months, many home mission congregations have been blessed in a variety of ways. The following five congregations have either held a groundbreaking, launched public worship, purchased […]
African outreach trips – Fall 2021
/in Africa, World MissionsDuring 2021, missionaries from the One Africa Team were able to make several trips to visit various church groups throughout Africa. Many of these trips were originally delayed due to […]
Working together for future results
/in Faces of Faith, Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsEvents like our Trunk and Treat in October can be wonderful team-building/fellowship events. Ours was clearly that. Our volunteer participation grew from a mere handful when we first launched the […]
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