Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
No one had to tell the crowd to be exuberant with praise. They just were. (Luke 19:37-38)
No one had to convince the people to shout. They just did. (John 12:13)
No one had to force them to make a welcome carpet out of their clothes. They just had to. (Luke 19:36)
You can no more prevent a song gushing up from the depths of a heart than you can stop Old Faithful from erupting from the deep of the earth. Continue reading “All Glory, Laud and Honor!”
WELS Missions provides invaluable support to sister church bodies around the world as they train and prepare future pastors. Every country has a different approach to worker training, depending on resources at hand as well as the local culture. In Nigeria, two sister Lutheran church bodies work in tandem to support a joint seminary, but each synod maintains separate pre-seminaries that act as “feeder” schools. Missionary Jeff Heitsch recently visited Nigeria from February 21 until March 9. This week he shares his impressions with us: Continue reading “A Tale of Two Pre-Seminaries”
“Like new born babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord in good.” (1 Peter 2:2-3)
In 1953 WELS missionaries started working in Lusaka, Zambia. A few years after their arrival, they had established several congregations in the Lusaka area as well as a mission station in the town of Mwembeshi. As people joined the new church body, they wanted to share the Gospel message with their friends and families who lived in other parts of Zambia. Continue reading “It Holds Your Stomach”
