WELS Friends of Africa

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”

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”