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

July 8, 2020January 28, 2022

God be with You Till We Meet Again

God’s Call brought the Nitz family to Malawi and now His Call is taking them out.

26 years 8 months later.

5 kids later.

4 in-country moves later.

12 furloughs later.

July 1, 2020June 10, 2020

Portrait of a Gospel Harvester

2019 Graduates of the Greater Africa Theological Studies Institute (GRATSI) from left to right: Pastors Mecious Lubaba, Jonathan Kangongo, Eliya Petro, Forward Shamachona, Mascrif Mulonda, Stanley Daile, Alfred Kumchulesi, Ellason Kambalame. Missing: Pastor Enock Mkowasenga.

Picture Moshe, a first-century Galilean farmer. Moshe learns that Yeshua, the traveling rabbi he has heard so much about, has returned to the fishing village.

Moshe aches, head and heart, for God’s kingdom. He decides to leave his farm for a day, walk the whole way, or catch a ride on an ox-cart, and see Yeshua.

Yeshua, rumor has it, claims God’s kingdom is near.

If it is so, … is the kingdom coming right away? Will God finally blow Roman taxes and military might away?

Moshe wonders if today, Yeshua will show the way.

June 17, 2020June 10, 2020