This will be our first WELS blog so we think it will be good to start at the beginning, and talk about how we got here.  Dave and I were living in Englewood, FL working and planning on doing evangelism work in our retirement years, about 7 years down the road.  As a crew member [...]

Tent Ministry. I’m finding out that I have one. Mind you, NOT in the traditional – or even synodical – sense of the term.*
Instead, tent ministry is my own description of my own experience in Malawi.  Here’s the best theological definition that I can come up with that best defines my tent ministry: I sleep in [...]

To visit bush congregations in Africa requires miles and miles of travel on indescribable roads, trails, and paths.  As a first time visitor to Africa, let me try to help you envision several typical scenes one sees as he rattle over the roads:  lines and lines of people walk or bike on the edge of [...]

No one can explain what it is like to live in Africa, you must experience it first to truly grasp it.  Cameroon may be one of the most primitive areas we work in Africa.  I do not know about Mozambique, but it is definitely more primitive than the rest of our fields to date.
Working with [...]

This past week we had thousands of flying visitors in our front yard. There were so many that it concerned me. I whispered to the kids to go into the house quickly & quietly. The kids and I had been outside setting out plates and bowls for a picnic lunch when we heard a loud [...]