My husband, Pastor Paul Hartman, and I are in Hong Kong to help SALEM (a WELS sister Lutheran church) with its publishing efforts. Paul is the coordinator for WELS Multi-Language Publications.
Last week I was baking brownies to take to the home of Cici and her husband Angus, an evangelist in one of the SALEM congregations, [...]

The workshop and distance learning program posed an urgent need to translate the Bible Teachings Series and Luther’s Catechism into the Nepali language. And this in turn creates a need to raise up translators among the people in the church, who are not only highly literate in their own language and capable of understanding the [...]

God makes all things possible. Baptists had suggested a feasible approach: tell Bible stories to teach the gospel. Two workshops were devoted to teaching 120 stories from the Old and New Testaments. WELS teachers  demonstrated ways to tell the stories effectively and help the students internalize them. The next three workshops taught Luther’s Catechism featuring [...]

A two-hour bumpy ride in a land rover over a dusty trail took us just ten miles west of the city of Dhangadhi along the southern border of Nepal. To the north at times Pastor Robert Hartman and I could make out the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains and to the south we could see [...]

Some new doors are currently being opened in places like Nepal, where Humanitarian Aid gifts support orphans, medical clinics and literacy classes.  While folks wait for care they look through Christian literature provided by Multi-Language Publications. This has resulted in people now beginning to study the Bible.
These pictures show several ladies studying for classes during [...]