A time to celebrate and a time to pray
Luke Wolfgramm, our WELS pastor in Russia, had a chance to talk with Holger Weiss, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ELFK) in Germany. The ELFK is WELS’ […]
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Plans A,B,C,D…
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsWe 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, […]
Member roles from scratch
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs“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
/in Asia, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsThis 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
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsIn 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
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsBethel 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
/in Home Missions, Missions Blog, WELS BlogsOne 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
/in Africa, Missions Blog, WELS Blogs, World MissionsOn 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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