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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…