“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, [...]
“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 conversation:
Doctor: [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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. [...]
“We arrived in the small village of Kong around nine on Easter morning and were greeted by Joseph Baldjoi. Joseph is one of the students in the pastoral program at the Lutheran Center for Theological Education (CLET). He had invited us to attend their Easter church service. I accepted the invitation full-heartedly because my brother [...]
From Guinea - 2008
Linda and Delano Meyer’s photos of their work with the people of Guinea, Africa. The Meyers teach ‘Management of the Harvest’ in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea as the first important step toward helping people to see causes for food shortages and to find their solutions. They always followed up with biblical [...]
From Pastor Carlos Winterle’s blog:
Eight (8) ladies from the Lutheran Missionary Women League (LWML) – Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) – USA were in Kenya from March 30th to April 12th. This postage of the BLOG presents a report about their Mission Trip. Every one of them wrote a little about their impression.
We thank the [...]
“It’s 2008, and big changes have begun to take shape for the church in Guinea. They began as soon as we got back from the United States. The big event on our return was the ordination of our first Guinean pastor, Julien Kotembedouno.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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