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…
Moments with missionaries: Jacob Ungemach
Where will my mission field be? As I sit in class in my last year at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, sometimes my thoughts drift toward the end of the year when…
Moments with missionaries: Timothy Walsh
Overflowing with opportunities Forty thousand cars drive past our church’s campus every 24 hours. That statistic was among the first things I was told about our congregation’s location after I…
Moments with missionaries: Keegan Dowling
Last summer, Missionary Dan Kroll and I went to the port city of Douala, Cameroon’s biggest city. Where we stayed was right next to where the huge freighter ships docked.…
Moments with missionaries: Abe Degner
A celebration in Cochabamba The streets were packed with tourists, vendors, and colorfully dressed dancers. It was carnival weekend in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and thousands had flocked to the city to…
Moments with missionaries: Craig Wilke
The response to free Sermon illustrations are not always easy to come by. Sometimes you rack your brain for a story, a life experience, something you’ve read, but nothing comes…
Moments with missionaries: Dan Laitinen in Kenya
Church begins in the home Joseph is a young man living in Nairobi, Kenya. His daily routine includes milking a cow and goats as well as tending a garden on…
Moments with missionaries: Joel Nitz
Strawberry fields forever in Vietnam “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103). Despite COVID-19 restrictions and obstacles, our mission to the…
Moments with missionaries: Stephen Wiesenauer
Where there is no boom “There is no boom,” said a Lutheran pastor about mission work in East Asia. Between culture, religions, hostile governments, pestilence, warfare, and centuries of tradition…