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“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”

I didn’t know what he meant.

I heard his words but I didn’t grasp his message.  I wondered what he was really saying. What was the meaning behind the words?  Was he even talking to me? Or to someone else? Or was he just talking to himself?  Three times he repeated the same thing:

“Now I believe.” Continue reading “Now I Believe”

“Prepare for the real world in the real world.” That was a thought I had as leadership of the mission trip program passed over to my office this last year. For years students of Wisconsin Lutheran High School have been traveling all over the country and even all over the world to serve their Savior and their neighbor. Most trips have been in the United States, but every year there were also a few international trips to places in the Far East, Mexico, and elsewhere. Continue reading “Prepare for the Real World in the Real World”