“Boas Festas!”  These words brightly light up the hillside overlooking the Douro River and the UN World Heritage area of Porto.  The phrase greets shoppers from store windows all over Portugal.  “Boas Festas” could loosely be translated as “Happy Holidays.”  It’s a nice, sentimental wish.  But in a nation that counts 90% of its population [...]

I finally made it back to Africa, but only for a couple weeks.  Missionary Jeff Enderle and I spent two weeks in Nampula, Moçambique working to sort out the registration of our Lutheran Mission, and also gathering more specific information regarding potential homes, vehicles, and schools for our children.
Our registration has been a trying process.  [...]

Staff minister Jack Meyer reports from Ascension, Plymouth, Minn. “We had a total of 127 children in VBS, about 15 from Kids’ Campus and they weren’t required to register, and we had another few walk-ins.  I counted 61 online registrations, with many families having multiple children.  I am not aware of any phone-in registrations.”
An active [...]