Missions

Mexico Missionaries: In Transition

rhartman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:55:39 +0000

Last week we spent a few days house hunting in Leon. My first impression of the city was positive: it is clean, modern in many ways, and full of Mexican life. We found a lovely house to rent and signed the contract for it last Friday. This week boxes are piling up in our rooms and [...]

Being the Savior’s hands

missions — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:17:42 +0000

Tara Brennan is the nurse coordinator for the WELS Committee on Relief. She recently returned from a trip to Jimani, Dominican Republic to coordinate future WELS relief efforts for victims of the Haiti earthquake. We arrived in Jimani, Dominican Republic at about 10:00 PM Monday, 2-22-2010. The ride from Santo Domingo took about five and [...]

Friends in the Lord

dweiser — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:00:24 +0000

One of the side benefits of representing WELS in Nigeria – the Lord’s work – is the friends we are privileged to make along the way. Pastors Tim Gerbing and Doug Weiser plus our driver and security escort enjoyed a delightful meal as guests of Pastor Mathias and Mrs. Alice Odey in Ogoja. Tasty food [...]

Quite the little missionary

missions — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:38:53 +0000

Isabella was introduced to God’s Word for the first time when she came to Beautiful Savior’s summer program in 2009. In the fall her mom enrolled her in our kindergarten. The first time I taught a Christ Light lesson I heard her say, “I never heard that story before.” Her eyes lit up and she [...]

50/50

missions — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:00:01 +0000

John Vogt, who has served WELS as Friendly Counselor for Scandinavia and as guest professor at Asia Lutheran Seminary, is now once again serving WELS missions. From his post as Rector [President] of St. Sophia Lutheran Seminary in Ternopil’, Ukraine, he is also assisting WELS with the training of pastors in Bulgaria and Albania. In [...]

A day in the life

missions — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:52 +0000

Dee & Dave Mathiak are WELS Kingdom Workers in Zambia, Africa. Their journal gives insight into their daily lives in Zambia and how they help support the gospel ministry there. I have resumed teaching Keyboard/Computer classes and am pleased with the progress of the students. They are all becoming good typists. The wives bring their babies [...]

Russia update

missions — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:00:50 +0000

It has been a very cold, dark winter – even for here! This is southern Siberia, after all. The month of January had only six days where the high temperature reached 0 degrees Fahrenheit. There were several days where our girls could have stayed home from school. The rule is that if the temperature is [...]

A great All Saints start at Egbinyi

dweiser — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:21 +0000

It’s really not so remote – this part of the Yala area west of Ogoja. But to take a road, even a road under construction, you need to travel three hours. President Mathias Odey had arranged for Pastors Doug Weiser and Tim Gerbing to worship at Egbinyi. It’s a relatively new station in the Igede [...]

Adventure

missions — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:00:14 +0000

When I was younger and read about those early missionaries or itinerant pastors who traveled from one congregation to another via horseback (especially in the Midwest), I wondered what it was like and how hard it was. Well, the Lord has given us, Missionary John and Sandy Vogt, that same feeling. We don’t travel via horseback, [...]

Not in vain

missions — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:27:19 +0000

A lot of people judge a ministry by the amount of confirmed members they have on paper. As a missionary I hear the folllowing quite often; “You’ve been in Detroit a year and a half now. How many members do you have?” If I’m honest, I have to respond by saying one and she’s my [...]