Dr. Steven L. Witte was formally added to the Asia Lutheran Seminary faculty in an installation service on November 1.  Earlier this year Dr. Witte accepted a call to serve as professor and vice-president at ALS.  Steven and his wife Mary arrived in Hong Kong in early October.  Dr. Witte had served the past eight [...]

Asia Lutheran Seminary (ALS) – Asia Lutheran Seminary has entered its fifth year and will grant degrees for the first time on November 2.  Student body size that had ebbed slightly during the last two years has stabilized this fall.  The current human resources within our support and auxiliary staff are extraordinary in talent, experience, [...]

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by the fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, [...]

“This blog entry is written by Katie Lehman, a lay worker on assignment in Thailand through the organization WELS Kingdom Workers. She shares her thoughts on the departure of Missionary Jud Krohn, who is being recalled to the United States because of synod budget cuts.”
Looking around us these days, it seems we’re in a [...]

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“Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” 1 Samuel 7:12
Ebenezer. Probably a name most quickly associated in our minds with a grouchy, ungrateful, and complaining Christmas character. But historically, it has a totally different meaning: a thankfulness [...]