shepherdroebke@gmail.com, Author at WELS Friends of Africa

November 4, 2020November 12, 2020

The Holy Spirit was Busy this Weekend

L-R: Malawians Arnold and Joseph have made a double connection with the Lutheran Church through TELL

My wife and I are reading through the gospels in our devotions these days and marveling again at the miracles of our Savior.

I think I just experienced one this past Friday morning.

Let me back up, just a bit. I am a missionary with the One Africa Team, currently helping out with the Multi-Language Productions program called TELL (tellnetwork.org). As they are reaching people with their Bible studies in West Africa via Facebook, the TELL organizers received a few questions that I was able to answer for them. West Africa is an area where I have lived and worked. I’m happy to be involved with TELL, working mostly with Pastor Dan Laitinen who coordinates the online materials. I have entered a bit more deeply into the program and I conduct online teaching and send videos to interested parties.

October 21, 2020October 14, 2020

Two Witnesses

And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days (Rev. 11:3)

Rev. Patrick Magombo is the author of “Chilangizo”

When you hear a foreign language that you don’t speak, you hear sounds that don’t mean anything to you. But what is meaningless noise to you conveys a concrete, intelligent message to a someone who understands that language.

The Gospel message of salvation by grace alone has the power to free enslaved hearts. The Gospel transforms irascible scoundrels into servants of God. And yet to a skeptic, this message of free forgiveness is utter foolishness. Only God’s Spirit can raise the spiritually dead to belief through the “foolishness of what is preached” (1 Cor 1:21).

October 7, 2020September 29, 2020

Two Installations, One Calling

Rev. Brester Msowoya is installed as the pastor of Fisi Parish Union in Malawi

This week I had the opportunity to attend the installation services for two very different pastors. One of them is a man with over two decades of ministry experience. The other man is a recent graduate of the Lutheran Seminary of Lusaka, Zambia. But despite their differences, both are serving in very similar ministries in the Lutheran Church of Central Africa – Malawi Synod.