Yesterday evening, we met with our fellow Lutheran missionaries (Ivan and Jennifer Rasch and family and Charles and Karen Tessaro) for a time of Advent devotion. The focus of our meditation was on being sojourners. Mary and Joseph were sojourners. Nazareth was not their home. They had to go to Bethlehem for the census. Bethlehem [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
Celebrate Christ’s birth with the Lutheran Church of Panama! Congregations from all over the country gathered this month for this special Christmas concert! Learn more about the mission work in Panama
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Linda Steinbart, ISM director in Tempe, Ariz., shared this update. “The last weekend in September, I had the privilege of taking two international students, one from China and the other from Taiwan, on a retreat to Camp Aloma, in Prescott, Ariz. They were excited and thankful for this op¬portunity. While both learned the meaning of [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
“I have been staying in Narena, Mali, while the strikes continued in Mali. There is a young Norwegian couple on the other side of Narena, about a mile and a half away, who were asked to help a sick woman (the wife is a nurse). They went to visit the woman and her family and [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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“I recently made a new friend, Yuko, who came to the church because she found our English school Web site on the Internet. She is an avid music fan, and particularly likes the band Switchfoot. She’s even traveled to the United States a few times to see them in concert! It was through this band [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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“At Christmastime, Christians tend to focus on texts like James 1:27, ‘Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” Especially if we have been blessed in the past year, we are more [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
“We have had our first church service on the farm! While a group from Missouri was here, we had a church service on the Sunday after the vacation Bible school that they helped with. The group even got to cut down a tall tree and construct a cross for the church. Afterwards, we all gathered [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Sunday School workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. View more photos from Phnom Penh, Cambodia Learn more about mission work in Cambodia.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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The news media has been keeping us well-informed of the instability in Bangkok, Thailand and Jos, Nigeria over the past week. LCMS World Mission has missionaries residing in both cities. Join LCMS World Mission in thanking God for His protection of all LCMS missionaries and pray for their continued safety and for peace to return [...]
Monday, December 1, 2008
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“I love the kids that come to Friday Night Bible Study (FNBS). I really get to know them on a deeper level than I would if we were in a regular class. Many students that go to FNBS are from Concordia, so I know them a little bit from seeing them on campus. Stanley has [...]
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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