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In search of hope
Hardship pursued the family relentlessly.
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Ronald’s eyes were heavy with weariness from his family’s traveling. Fear followed him, the defender of his family, when they were forced out of homeless shelters and separated from one another for days at a time. Desperation plagued him, even after arriving in the United States—their promised land—as they spent sleepless nights on the streets with hunger still gnawing at their stomachs, thousands of miles away from home.
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Ronald; his wife, Ismar; and their four children, Elliany, Santiago, Jérico, and Andrés, were desperately in search of hope.
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One Sunday morning, lost and alone in the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, they walked through the doors of our church, Cross of Christ.
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“We’re Venezuelans,” Ronald told me, and my heart broke.
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On April 3–4, WELS Board for Home Missions approved 11 new missions and enhancements for the synodwide 100 Missions in 10 Years initiative. “Each of the five new starts is backed by a mature, mission-minded core group that has been actively sharing the . . .
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“We can love all of them, and we can make sure they know we believe God loves them and Jesus loves them. And for some, we’re going to rejoice when we see the difference in the short time we have here,” remarks Brad Snyder, pastor at St. Croix Lutheran . . .
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Located ten minutes apart, Morrison Zion, Greenleaf, Wis., and Immanuel, Shirley, Wis., both want to reach out with the gospel in the rural area 15 miles outside of the De Pere/Green Bay area. But what’s the best way to conduct the most ministry without . . .
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