WELS Friends of Africa - Page 33 of 72 - Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team

July 1, 2020June 10, 2020

Portrait of a Gospel Harvester

2019 Graduates of the Greater Africa Theological Studies Institute (GRATSI) from left to right: Pastors Mecious Lubaba, Jonathan Kangongo, Eliya Petro, Forward Shamachona, Mascrif Mulonda, Stanley Daile, Alfred Kumchulesi, Ellason Kambalame. Missing: Pastor Enock Mkowasenga.

Picture Moshe, a first-century Galilean farmer. Moshe learns that Yeshua, the traveling rabbi he has heard so much about, has returned to the fishing village.

Moshe aches, head and heart, for God’s kingdom. He decides to leave his farm for a day, walk the whole way, or catch a ride on an ox-cart, and see Yeshua.

Yeshua, rumor has it, claims God’s kingdom is near.

If it is so, … is the kingdom coming right away? Will God finally blow Roman taxes and military might away?

Moshe wonders if today, Yeshua will show the way.

June 17, 2020June 10, 2020

The Elephant in the Room

One does not stop the advance of an elephant – nor can a pastor stop advancing his own ability to handle the Scriptures

There was an elephant in the room.

Everyone knew it. But as is so often the case, no one said anything.

June 3, 2020May 13, 2020

Introducing the Confessional Lutheran Institute

The Confessional Lutheran Institute is an initiative of One Africa Team to equip, enhance, and enable the pastors of our African sister synods

By the middle of this century the population of Africa is estimated to reach 2.4 billion people, one-quarter of the estimated 9.8 billion people who will on the planet. That is a staggeringly huge mission field which will require many workers to gather in the full harvest. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) has a small but significant role to play in making God’s kingdom come in Africa, through the work of the Confessional Lutheran Institute (CLI). This is the first of a three-part series of articles that will introduce you this new initiative of the WELS Board for World Missions working through One Africa Team. The CLI brings various aspects of worker training and enrichment together under one umbrella, in order to better coordinate our joint efforts with our partner churches across the continent of Africa. The CLI’s work is divided into three branches: Seminary Consultation, Formal Continuing Education and Professional Development.