Movie depicts God’s work in the life of a second-career pastor
He worked as an undertaker, an undercover narcotics detective, and a homicide investigator. For the past 15 years, he has served as pastor at St. Mark, Leesburg, Fla. The story…
Bible story art shares gospel with children
When Eternal Love, Appleton, Wis., determined that it needed to renovate the playground area of its pre-K program, Wee Love Learning Center, it decided that meant more than just getting…
Moments with missionaries: Ross Chartrand
My wife and I were standing in an empty living room of a new house filled with dust and echoes and not much else until our moving truck arrived. Neither…
Twenty years of WELS Schools Accreditation
This school year, WELS Schools Accreditation (WELSSA) is marking 20 years of helping WELS schools provide the assurance of a quality, Christ-centered education to families. The WELSSA process reviews and…
Serving neighbors with compassion
On Thanksgiving Day, members of New Life, Lake Zurich, Ill., drove a couple of passenger vans to Great Lakes Naval Station to pick up 28 naval recruits. These young people,…
Thirty years of helping kids stay connected to Jesus
It all started with a good story. Pastor Tony Schultz had collected many interesting objects throughout his life—some of them from his travels across Africa, Asia, and South America. He…
Mapping Paul’s journeys
At a scholarly conference in ancient Ephesus in 2008, Dr. Glen Thompson, an early-church historian then serving as professor at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, Wis., met Dr. Mark Wilson, a…
Let your light shine: Doug Tabor
“Give me people and give me the words to say.” Doug Tabor prayed that prayer when he landed in Seoul, South Korea, to serve as a lay missionary with Friends…
Serving through art
Lydia Kratz, a member at Our Savior, Birmingham, Ala., doesn’t remember how she got started in art. “I just never stopped,” she says. “I was drawing all the time.” Now…