New this year – Integration with Lutheran Service Builder! Bible Translation Sunday breaks down barriers to involvement in global missions. Last year, over 300 churches signed on to host a Bible Translation Sunday. Any church leader interested in hosting a Bible...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
