This past October I had the opportunity to attend the LWMS Freedom Circuit Rally at Sure Foundation Lutheran Church in Queens, New York. Two years earlier I attended a women’s Mission Festival in Malawi at Fisi Lutheran Church. These two rallies on two different continents couldn’t be more different. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Rallies”
The Well is Deep!
Cool, refreshing water. Cool, refreshing, CLEAN water.
That’s what the community and congregation at Nagome village have. Finally have. And they can’t get enough of it. Every day they come to draw and to drink. Cups. Containers. Buckets. Pots, pans and pails. Now there’s nothing they can’t fill with clean water. But they weren’t able to do that for more than a year since October 2017. Continue reading “The Well is Deep!”
Pastor Charles Mandevu’s Ordination

In the year 1964 the WELS began training men for the public ministry of the LCCA on in Lusaka, Zambia. Due to the growth of the Malawi field, eleven years later a second worker training school opened in Lilongwe, Malawi. Students from both Zambia and Malawi study at the Lutheran Bible Institute in Lilongwe for three years, and then spend another three years at the Lutheran Seminary in Lusaka. Students spend an additional year as Vicars, serving congregations under the supervision of more experienced pastors, before being ordained into the ministry. Continue reading “Pastor Charles Mandevu’s Ordination”