Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
Sing to the Lord a new song…for great is the Lord and most worthy of praise (Psalm 96:1,4)
In the closing days of August, Rev. Dr. Terry Schultz from WELS Multi-Language Productions and Rev. Ben Foxen of the One Africa Team traveled to Uganda.
The goal? Fulfill a request made by our brothers and sisters in the Obadiah Lutheran Synod (OLS) to help them sing new songs with Christ-centered lyrics.
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Fresh fish! Look at these fellas and the catch of the day! For one week in the middle of June, two One Africa Team missionaries got to work by the sea in Cameroon with a group of church leaders, not only in English but also in French. As far as anyone can tell, this may have been the first time WELS World Missions has provided in-person training in Africa in French!
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One thing leads to another – in this case, an online Bible school has led to new contacts in Gambella, Ethiopia.
WELS’ Multi-Language Productions offers an online Bible school called TELL. A large majority of the school’s students are located in Africa. However, people all around the world find TELL very encouraging and use it as their primary source of spiritual growth. One of our participants is moving into a new and fairly untested level that requires him to confess doctrine agreement with the WELS.
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