WELS Mission Journeys

Short-term mission trips that inspire a lifelong journey of service and outreach.

SAN CARLOS RESERVATION, ARIZONA 

This past September, four members of Pilgrim, Minneapolis, Minn., and one member of St. John, Minneapolis, Minn., spent a week on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona to pass out invitations to the Apache mission’s 125th anniversary, to help clean up the church and school campus in Peridot in preparation for the October celebration, and to organize promotional items for the event. They also spent time sharing ministry ideas and encouragement with local Apache church members. “How different the people are who receive the gospel but how the gospel that we all receive isn’t different at all!” says Paula Schmeling, one of the participants. “We were immersed with adults and children who were a different skin color, who were at a different poverty level, who were experiencing different health issues and education levels, but we all held hands in church on Sunday and heard the Lord’s beautiful message of sin and grace! This was the same message shared 125 years ago when the Lutheran church began on the Apache Reservation! God’s love endures forever!”

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Volume 105, Number 11
Issue: November 2018

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