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A grand adventure
Christine and Matt Doebler have lived and served in Hong Kong, East Asia, Thailand, and now Australia. Hear Christine's perspectives as a missionary wife.
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In March 2014, our family of five wearily deplaned at Hong Kong International Airport. My husband, Matt, had accepted a call to teach at Asia Lutheran Seminary. We were met by Steve Witte, then-president of Asia Lutheran Seminary, and his wife, Mary. We’d traded our 2,200- square-foot home in Texas for a tiny apartment on the 19th floor with a kitchen the size of a phone booth. Our great adventure into world mission work had begun!
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The Doebler family arrived in Hong Kong in March 2014, welcomed by Dr. Steve Witte. Left to right: Sam, Maddie, Matt, Christine, and Caleb Doebler with Witte (far right).
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Christine Doebler on her latest mission adventure in Australia.
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Dillon Mares was weighed down by guilt. Baptized as a teenager, Dillon had drifted away from attending church. Now in his late 20s, he had a busy social life and successful career, but he couldn’t help feeling that something was missing. In May 2024, he . . .
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Christine Painter's dedication to women's ministry has cultivated a thriving sisterhood at Living Hope, Commerce City, Colo. “I have always felt God tugging me towards supporting women,” says Painter. Driven by her own struggles, including divorce and . . .
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“There are a lot of people out there who are not aware of who Martin Luther was. . . . He changed how religion was looked upon,” says retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dwight Johnson about what led him to create his one-man, three-act play An Evening with Martin . . .
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