WELS Friends of Africa - Page 33 of 71 - Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team

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.

May 20, 2020May 6, 2020

What do you do in Malawi?

When I tell others that I live in Malawi one of the first questions they ask me is, “What do you do there? What is your job? How do you spend your time?”

For many years my answer was, “I’m a housewife.” Taking care of the kids, husband and home took up most of my time (and still does, minus the kids). In spite of our “exotic” location living in Africa, the laundry, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning has to be done here as anywhere else in the world. I get the impression that some people imagine that my life is very interesting. Perhaps it felt like that a little bit when we first moved to Africa 22 years ago. But the novelty has long since worn off…

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

No Expectations

Paul, Susan and Henry Nitz in 1995 in the city of Mzuzu, Malawi

Go in without expectations. That’s a maxim I’ve found useful when I’ve had to cross cultures. Many years ago as a seminary graduate, I moved to Malawi to serve as a missionary. I tried to go in “empty”, but it wasn’t easy to do.