I recently completed my first visit of the year to the 10 homes we are now supporting.  I am happy to report that  many, many children have returned and are happy to be back.  The new children are adjusting well and beginning to learn the Word of God.  We have had very few start-up problems.
The [...]

On September 1st little girls all across Russia donned black jumpers with white blouses and arranged big, white fluffy bows in their hair.  The boys put on their best black pants and vests with white dress shirts.  And they all gathered up beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers.  It was “Day of Knowledge”, the first day [...]

Every day is an opportunity for us to give thanks for the grace we have been given, but recently the students at the “It Is Finished” Bible Institute and Seminary have shared their stories of thankfulness with each other. During the last term, the Bible students and members of Promise Lutheran Church witnessed a miracle [...]

Earlier this week I got a new oven!!!!  The apartment we moved into had a few furnishings and included a very old stove and oven.  From the beginning I had trouble using the oven, but I figured it was my inability to convert the Celsius temperature to Fahrenheit.  Well, after nearly three months of burning [...]

The temperature was certainly hot in the beach city of Krabi in southern Thailand, but it was the Holy Spirit that was on fire during a recent outreach trip by a WELS mission team to the city in early April.
About thirty youths attended a three-day English camp put together by the mission team, who traveled [...]