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…
Moments with missionaries: Nate Walther
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…
Moments with missionaries: Phil Hunter
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.…
Moments with missionaries: Timothy Spiegelberg
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…
Starting a church during a pandemic
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…