Finding the True Cross

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Meskel, or ‘cross” is the name of a holiday that the Ethiopian Orthodox Church celebrates. The full name of the festival is “The Finding of the True Cross.”  According to their tradition, God spoke in a dream to a woman named Helena, who was the mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome.  In the dream, God instructed Helena to light a fir tree on fire.  The smoke from the burning tree miraculously led Helena and her friends to a certain place on the ground.  When people dug into the ground at that place, they found the true cross on which Jesus died.

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Sing to the Lord New (Old) Songs

Sing to the Lord a new song…for great is the Lord and most worthy of praise (Psalm 96:1,4)

In the closing days of August, Rev. Dr. Terry Schultz from WELS Multi-Language Productions and Rev. Ben Foxen of the One Africa Team traveled to Uganda.

The goal? Fulfill a request made by our brothers and sisters in the Obadiah Lutheran Synod (OLS) to help them sing new songs with Christ-centered lyrics.

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