Faces of Faith – Alejandro
Rolling through the highway in Villa Maria, Argentina, one sees Nebraska-like cornfields. My fellow missionary said the view was bucolic. (Yeah, I had to look the word up too.) Grandpas […]
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Faces of Faith – Belniz
/in Faces of FaithHow do you reach out cross-culturally when there is a language barrier? By seeing the barrier itself as an opportunity. Jonatan Hernandez’ niece, Belniz, came to stay with family in […]
Faces of Faith – Saul
/in Faces of FaithI was a Buddhist follower before. I know there are many divisions in Buddhism, so I did research and studied each denomination. When I became a Christian, I also studied […]
Just one time and then?
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsChreaster connections? Maybe a little background is needed. They called them, “Chreasters,” in the congregation I had served in Wisconsin. Maybe we know them as “C-E Christians.” Not unique to […]
Cameroon Seminary Graduates Seven
/in Africa, Missions Update news, Newsletter, World MissionsMay 27, 2022, was an amazing day for our brothers and sisters in Cameroon. Amidst celebrations that reached across Africa, the Lutheran Church of Cameroon graduated seven men into the […]
Faces of Faith – Colleen
/in Faces of FaithOne Sunday in August, Colleen and Megan walked into our church for the first time. We learned that they were freshmen, roommates, and members of the softball team at Agnes […]
Faces of Faith – Mackenzie
/in Faces of FaithAt such a large university like the University of Michigan, it can be hard to meet other students who want to grow their faith and participate in Bible studies and […]
Faces of Faith – Fan
/in Faces of FaithI was born and raised in western China until I was 18. I grew up happily without being bothered to think about where we all come from and if there […]
Faces of Faith – Grandma Marian
/in Faces of FaithGrandma Marian brings a generation of Navajo knowledge and history to the members of Christ the Rock. The Lord blessed her with the gift of faith from a very early […]
Faces of Faith – Alicia
/in Faces of FaithAlicia first came to church with her family for a special worship service in the fall of 2019. Although her family came to church as a courtesy to someone who […]
Faces of Faith – Travis
/in Faces of FaithMy life changed in a tiny room in the back of a music store. I was at one of the lowest moments of my life, playing my hurt into one […]
Faces of Faith – Ivan and Gina
/in Faces of FaithIt 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 […]
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 […]
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