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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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 […]
How 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 […]
I 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 […]
Chreaster 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 […]
May 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 […]
One 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 […]
At 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 […]
I 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 […]
Grandma 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 […]
Alicia 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 […]
My 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 […]
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 […]
The 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 […]
A 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. […]
My 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 […]
The 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 […]
This 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 […]
“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 […]
Anderson 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 […]
Do 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, […]
Zion 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 […]
I’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 […]
Picture 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 […]
Dear 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 […]
Join 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 […]
Forty 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 […]
The 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 . . […]
“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. […]
In 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 […]
More 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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