Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
The Gathering Place. I remember there used to be a small restaurant by that name in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. That was decades ago. Perhaps it’s still there. Maybe not.Regardless, it’s a fitting name for a restaurant as the locals would, well, gather. Eat the special of the day. Drink endless cups of coffee. Chat, laugh, share the news and enjoy the stories and the company.
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I have left both shoe leather and sweat on the streets of suburban subdivisions and communist-built housing blocks. I have offered Tennis Camps, Renaissance Faires, Bible giveaways and free English lessons to attract my busy neighbors’ attention. It is no small task to establish a new church in either a home or a world mission setting. But God’s promises still encourage church planters today: “Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Cor. 15:58)
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For over 80 years the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod has supported mission work on the African continent, bringing both spiritual and material relief to weary and burdened. Over that time, nearly one hundred called workers and their families have given up the comforts of life in the United States to offer their time and skills in service of God’s kingdom. There have been missionaries who spent only a few years in Africa, and there are those veterans who have spent the majority of their lives here yet the Lord has used each and every of them to accomplish his own goals, in his own time.
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