My Christian life: WELS nurse lives out faith through her vocation
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…
COVID casualties
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…
New school year brings difficult decisions
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…
Clarity in life from closeness to death
“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…
My Christian life: On the front lines of a pandemic
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…
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…