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.  WELS personnel worked with International Medical Alliance of Tennessee, a non-profit organization that provides access to medical care in under-served and [...]

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 [...]

This post is the end of the year letter from nurses who work for the WELS Central Africa Medical Mission.
As we reflected back on 2009, we can see how God has guided and protected the Medical Mission throughout the year.  He has seen us through many challenges and given us countless blessings.  December was no [...]

Update from missionary wife,  Kathryn Strackbein: “One week after the earthquake things are becoming chaotic in Haiti. Food and water that has been donated is slowly finding its way to the people. Their is a bottleneck of planes.. continue reading at Lutherans in the Dominican Republic
Letter from Missionary Phil Strackbein: “Some tidbits of information came [...]

Two employees, two national pastors, thirty-four pre-seminary students, 2 trucks, 22 thousand pounds of rice, 2,200 pounds of dal, 1,100 pounds of tamarind powder and one thousand needy families add up to a whole lot of love.
Early fall brought much needed rain to the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. In fact, all of a sudden, [...]