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New missions rely on a strong backbone
Hundreds of congregations form the backbone of WELS that supports our shared gospel efforts.
I was months old in the summer of 1970 when my father accepted a call to start a new mission on the north side of Houston. The core members of this start-up mission had left their Missouri Synod churches for confessional reasons. They saw a ripe mission field and wanted to plant a new church to reach out with the gospel in this fast-growing part of Houston.
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This core group of several families became Abiding Word Lutheran Church.
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For more than 55 years, Abiding Word has been proclaiming God’s Word in the northwest part of Houston, Texas. Starting as a mission church with two families in 1969, the church has grown, changed, and adapted through the decades (read more in Mark Gabb's article). . .
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“By faith.” Those are some of the simplest words to say but the hardest words to live by. The truth is that we want our lives to be all about what we do. That thought is ingrained in all of us by nature. We want to do big things. We want to be great. We want people to . . .
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“Walking together on a path.” That is one definition of synod. You can recognize that word in Luke 2:44: “Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day.” That verse is part of the narrative where 12-year-old Jesus traveled with Joseph and Mary . . .
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