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 | Mar 1, 2022 | News
There are many stories about Roman persecution of early Christians. Rome was actually very tolerant, granting religious freedom to many diverse groups. But the unifying factor in Roman worship—and society—was belief in a core group of Roman gods who protected the city...
