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Mini Fest for Missions

“Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation” Mark 16:15. These were the words Mason Schilling and Drew Felton heard 5 years ago while sitting in church listening to the sermon. Most kids would want to do something to spread God’s Word but would probably realize they didn’t have the [...]


Benefit to support world missions

On Sunday, June 7th, members of St. Lucas Lutheran in Milwaukee hosted a benefit to raise money to support the work WELS world missions.  The event was primarily sponsored by the St. Lucas Moms’ Group.  The event itself was held at the home of a member of the group, and members did most of the [...]


What’s it like being a Home Mission?

Living Word in Waukesha, WI, still meets in a gym at a local grade school (Rose Glen Elementary School). Every Sunday, the congregation sets up metal folding chairs, unpacks the altar and hauls in the musical instruments. The saying there is, “We may have cold chairs, but we make up for it with smiling faces.”
In [...]


Living water

Sunday, June 8, seemed like a disaster to members of Living Water, Western Oshkosh, Wis. For weeks the group had been planning a ground-breaking service on their future church site. But on that day gushing rain, five inches of it, greeted everyone trying to make it from the parking lot into their ministry center for [...]


Baseball Bible Camp 2007

This is the fourth year that Dave Reinemann, a teacher and baseball coach at Northland Lutheran High School (www.nlhs.org), has come down to offer a baseball camp near one of our congregations. Andrew, a NLHS grad who had come on the first two trips, returned this year to assist and translate for Dave.
The congregation [...]