"Since South African schools were on holiday for the FIFA World Cup, Julia, a fellow GEO missionary, and I planned another round of vacation Bible school. This time, it was a three-week session that started on June 22 and ended on July 9. We asked for volunteers from the local Lutheran church and schools to assist us...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Recently in Kenya, Mike had the opportunity to share his faith with individuals that had come to an eye clinic set up by a LCMS short-term mission team. After talking with one young man, Mike asked him about his struggles. The man was quiet for a moment...
Monday, May 3, 2010
LCMS World Mission joins in celebration with the Board for Mission Services, which extended two calls to pastoral candidates from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., on April 27. A call was issued to Brandt Klawitter to serve as an Army chaplain through LCMS World Mission's Ministry to the Armed Forces, and to Shauen Trump to serve as a missionary in East Africa.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Dr. Mike Rodewald serves the Lord as the regional director of Africa for LCMS World Mission. In this role, Mike works with missionaries and our partner churches throughout Africa. Listen as Mike discusses encouraging news from Africa and how you can become involved in mission work there.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
“In December, we were anxious to make our last visit to the Kono District of Sierra Leone, where we planned to do agricultural training in four locations. We felt joy and a bit of anxiety about the opportunity to teach in Boindu, a new location for us in the extreme eastern edge of Sierra Leone, [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
“We are so thankful for the people we work with, such as our co-worker Catherine Wangari. She shared a story about an encounter with a doctor recently. She was meeting with him to talk about medicines needed for upcoming short-term mission teams who are coming to work with eye clinics. “Here’s a bit of the [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
“God has strange ways to work. Recently, we received an e-mail from Pastor Peter Varvaris, of New Hope Missions Church in Mooresville, N.C. He wrote, ‘Recently, our team was in Washington, D.C. doing a service event with Samaritan’s Feet ministry through a local church there. While serving there, we met two people from Kenya. It [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
“I was shocked at how many opportunities God provided for me to have great spiritual conversations and occasions to share my faith during this past month, with friends and strangers alike. On days that I would greet in the market this month (which was usually four days per week), I never had less than three [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
“During the last two weeks of September, we held two courses for our Master of Arts in Christian Outreach (MACO) degree program here in Nigeria. One course was ‘Missio Dei’ (The Mission of God). It focused on examining ‘mission’ as God’s great compassion for His creation (people) and His great desire to restore His relationship [...]
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
“A man came here to help us, we thought, with discipling some of our friends who were new in the faith. He was someone we’d considered a friend for six years, and who had claimed to be a Christian for 20 years. In reality, his only interest was in gaining money and status for himself. [...]
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