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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Abe Degner

Moments with missionaries: Abe Degner

  • Post author:Abe Degner
  • Post published:2023/05/01
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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…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Craig Wilke

Moments with missionaries: Craig Wilke

  • Post author:Craig Wilke
  • Post published:2023/02/28
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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…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Dan Laitinen in Kenya

Moments with missionaries: Dan Laitinen in Kenya

  • Post author:Dan Laitinen
  • Post published:2023/01/30
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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…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Joel Nitz

Moments with missionaries: Joel Nitz

  • Post author:Joel Nitz
  • Post published:2022/05/25
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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…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Stephen Wiesenauer

Moments with missionaries: Stephen Wiesenauer

  • Post author:Stephen Wiesenauer
  • Post published:2022/01/27
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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…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Nate Walther

Moments with missionaries: Nate Walther

  • Post author:Nate Walther
  • Post published:2021/09/20
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Plans A, B, C, D We were ready to take Minot by storm with a new, innovative approach. It was 2014. Childcare was a big need in a still booming…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Phil Hunter

Moments with missionaries: Phil Hunter

  • Post author:Phil Hunter
  • Post published:2021/04/25
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A head start on the fresh start Our mission in Wesley Chapel, Fla., chose to get a head start on the fresh start that every church is experiencing right now.…

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Read more about the article Moments with missionaries: Timothy Spiegelberg

Moments with missionaries: Timothy Spiegelberg

  • Post author:Timothy Spiegelberg
  • Post published:2021/01/29
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I don’t know about you, but one of the most dangerous things I did during this pandemic was to turn on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). I know, I live…

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Read more about the article Starting a church during a pandemic

Starting a church during a pandemic

  • Post author:David Koelpin
  • Post published:2020/07/27
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Folsom is in northern California, between Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s an exciting place to start a church. I arrived in Folsom in the fall of 2019, with an…

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