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God’s Promises
Sierra Leone, August 1991 “Rain streams down the gutters, over the roads, and digs deep grooves into the dirt roads, converting them into riverbeds. It pounds on the tin roofs and relentlessly pours into all the tiny holes until the old ceilings in our house begin to...
Friday Field Notes
Catch up on recent news from Rev. Nathan and Sarah Esala, Janet Borchard, and Rev. Claude and Rhoda Houge.
Fishing for the Right Words: Part 2
Jim Laesch, regional director for southern and eastern Africa for Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT), had presented the Kerewe translation team with a challenge. They were asked to translate a story about Jim and his son Andy from English into Kerewe. They had lots of...
Fishing for the Right Words: Part 1
Jim Laesch is the regional director for southern and eastern Africa for Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT). He’s been instrumental in organizing a New Testament translation project for the Kerewe people who live on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania. Last year, Jim held a...
Living Words
Translating Scripture accurately and clearly into any language requires training, diligence, patience, and dedication. Translation teams bring Scripture alive using the grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology that is familiar and meaningful to those they serve. Bible...
Find the latest news here from Michael and Naomi Ersland.
Gola Dedication on March 8!
Have you ever waited for something for a very long time? Something you genuinely desired, truly needed? Has delivery been delayed over and over again, leading you to wonder if you were ever going to get it? How about waiting for 50 years? On March 8, the Gola New...
Friday Field Notes
Find the latest news here from Rev. Carl and Kelsey Grulke, Rob Hilbert, Amy Formella, and Elliot and Serena Derricks.
Signs of Faith
It happened every year on the morning of Ash Wednesday. Someone would stop a former co-worker from my former job to point out, “You have something on your forehead.” And he would explain that he had just come from church. Not everyone got it. There would be blank...
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