by Emily Wilson | Mar 29, 2022 | News, Official Blog
The pastor read the text from Luke 24:36-43. Then he said, “Jesus, raised from the dead, was not a ghost.” Not a sentence you usually hear in the pastor’s comments on Easter Sunday. But this pastor was speaking to his congregation in Cameroon, where people believed...
by Emily Wilson | Mar 22, 2022 | News, Official Blog
“Why are you getting baptized?” “I don’t know but we’re supposed to be. And I will be baptized in the river.” The Uspanteco man in Guatemala went on to explain to his friend that the local church was in grave error. They had built an outside tank they filled with a...
by Emily Wilson | Mar 15, 2022 | News, Official Blog
The young woman was very ill. Her husband asked LBT missionary Rev. Tim Beckendorf if he would drive her to a nearby clinic. She’d already seen other doctors and traditional healers. Now the clinic confirmed the diagnosis. She was dying. They sent her home to be cared...
by Emily Wilson | Mar 8, 2022 | News, Official Blog
“Thxrx is nothing wrong with our typxwritxr xxcxpt for onx littlx kxy. Thx othxrs work pxrfxctly. Onx malfunctioning kxy makxs a diffxrxncx, doxsn’t it?” I came across this in an old LBT prayer letter, written to donors in 1969. It went on to say, “You may say to...
by Emily Wilson | Feb 22, 2022 | News, Official Blog
When I was a kid, my church always held an annual summer picnic at the city park. Lunch was preceded by morning worship, held in the big pavilion with seating at picnic tables. It was a novelty (and I admit, a distraction) to follow the usual order of service...
by Emily Wilson | Feb 15, 2022 | News, Official Blog
When I relocated to a small town with Lutheran Bible Translators several years ago, one of the first things my sister asked was, “Is there a library?” She and I both love to read. From childhood, we always had access to a huge supply of books and materials, either at...
