Category: Feature Stories
Rapid Growth for Mozambique’s Lutherans
MOZAMBIQUE – Missions in Mozambique continue to bear fruit as the Lutheran Church of Concord in Mozambique (Igreja Luterana da Concórdia em Moçambique – ILCM) shares the good news of Jesus Christ. In August 2015, the ILCM celebrated the ordination of its first graduating class…
Save Us From Self
by Robert Bugbee “My life. My death. My choice.” It was an internet comment posted recently following a news story on the topic of physician-assisted suicide. I don’t know who wrote it, but the author figured this was a trump-card he could throw on the…
When I Doubt
by Mathew Block The thought arises unbidden and unwelcome. Maybe it comes on quickly. Maybe it comes on slowly—so slowly, in fact, that you never even suspect it’s coming, until one day you wake up and there it is in the back of your mind….
Ursula von Münsterberg
by Leah Block It was early October, the year of our Lord 1528. The evening was fine, but the light breeze carried with it a hint of the frost to come. The rising quarter moon cast a silver sheen over the stone walls of the…
Nicaraguan Lutherans call for prayer, support following earthquake
NICARAGUA – Late on June 9, a major earthquake struck Nicaragua near the community of Chinandega, damaging multiple buildings and homes. The Lutheran Church—Synod of Nicaragua (Iglesia Luterana—Sínodo de Nicaragua – ILSN) has been hit particularly hard by the quake. “Our communities were severely affected…
Missionary Finishes Studies, Will Return to Ukraine
EDMONTON – Concordia Lutheran Seminary (Edmonton) presented a Master of Divinity degree to Rev. Oleksiy Navrotskyy during their Sacred Convocation ceremony on May 30, 2016. Rev. Navrotskyy is a missionary for Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) in Ukraine, where he serves with the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran…
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