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Read more about the article My Christian life: WELS nurse lives out faith through her vocation

My Christian life: WELS nurse lives out faith through her vocation

  • Post author:Laura Schaefer
  • Post published:2020/09/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

A WELS nurse explains how her vocation allows her to share her faith and show love to those in need. Jesus calls us to follow his example by living lives…

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Read more about the article COVID casualties

COVID casualties

  • Post author:Glenn L. Schwanke
  • Post published:2020/08/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

More than four million infected and 148,866 deaths. Those are the coronavirus statistics shared by the US Centers for Disease Control at the end of July. Meanwhile, the World Health…

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Read more about the article New school year brings difficult decisions

New school year brings difficult decisions

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2020/08/25
  • Post category:FIC News/Forward in Christ

WELS schools around the country were faced with the difficult job this summer of determining what school is going to look like in the fall, after the 2019–20 school year…

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Read more about the article Clarity in life from closeness to death

Clarity in life from closeness to death

  • Post author:Joel Seifert
  • Post published:2020/07/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

“Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is” (Psalm 39:4). “This just doesn’t seem real.” Have you heard people…

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Read more about the article My Christian life: On the front lines of a pandemic

My Christian life: On the front lines of a pandemic

  • Post author:Alicia A. Neumann
  • Post published:2020/07/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

A husband and wife’s passion for serving leads them to the front lines of a pandemic. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon in May. Jon and Paige Fricke were sitting…

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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
  • Post category:FIC News/Forward in Christ

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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