Posts with the category “faith-and-fellowship-magazine”

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied.For this edition we’ve created a four-week Bible study based on mental...  Read More

Mental Health. These are loaded words. These are complicated words that encompass a wide range of needs. These words include everything from job burnout to suicide. And, in a Western culture that prai...  Read More

Mental health issues can be difficult to talk about.Last weekend, Bob learned that the daughter of his golfing buddy, Daniel, had been hospitalized after a psychiatric crisis. Bob was unsure what to s...  Read More

It was a Saturday. I was trying to finish a sermon but couldn’t quite get it done. Feelings of sadness didn’t help. Maybe going for a walk would. It didn’t. Despite the beautiful fall afternoon, the s...  Read More

I have served in youth ministry for nearly 20 years. One of my biggest priorities is supporting students as they go through challenges in their lives. I am not a mental health expert, but I am here to...  Read More

For five days we watched our young people take in God’s Word, praise his name together in worship, and join each other in prayer. They experienced fellowship through afternoon activities, games with e...  Read More

Dr. Eugene Boe has served the Church of the Lutheran Brethren faithfully for many years as elder, youth minister, pastor, mentor, advisor, theological council member, and most prominently as our semin...  Read More

The Glimpse Project is a resource that gives you the ability to peek into the life and ministry of our Lutheran Brethren missionaries. Ten Lutheran Brethren missionary couples/families/units are activ...  Read More

Through my years as a social worker, I have worked in various roles geared toward providing for the needs of children and adolescents. Early on in these roles, I had the idea that my work would primar...  Read More

Rev. Matthew Rogness is retiring this fall after serving 43 years in ministry. He served as pastor of congregations in Washington and Minnesota (1981-1986), as a missionary in Cameroon (1986-1992), as...  Read More

Rev. Paul Tjelta has accepted the call to serve as CLB Director of Operations following the retirement of Rev. Matthew Rogness. Paul will oversee and coordinate the organizational operations of the sy...  Read More

Rev. Roger Olson has accepted the call to serve as Associate for Ministry Support, starting September 1, 2024. Roger will oversee and coordinate the support and resourcing of CLB Ministers of the Gosp...  Read More

Rev. Jordan Spina has accepted the call to serve as the Associate Director of North American Mission. He began in this role on August 12, 2024.Jordan and his wife Becca have been married for five year...  Read More

On Sunday, August 11, 2024, Rev. Michael Natale was installed as Pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church, Underwood, MN. Pictured (L-R): President Larson (Officiated the service), Deacons Troy Turchin, Paul...  Read More

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. These studies are centered on the theme of each issue.For this editio...  Read More

To those of you who attended BC24, to those of you who sent and supported this gathering, to all of the CLB—I greet you as partners in mission!  Indeed, I am so very grateful that we are “in this toge...  Read More

"I am so glad to be in this mission together with you,” President Paul Larson greeted the congregation of delegates Saturday morning, June 9. The theme verse for Church of the Lutheran Brethren Bienni...  Read More

am 36 years old, and I like to play basketball. LeBron James is 39 years old and plays in the NBA, and when I think about that, there’s a little part of me that lights up with hope like Lloyd Christma...  Read More

No Plan: Just a Heart for God and PeopleIt is noon on a Monday, time for The Clothing Closet to open. About a dozen people are waiting to enter the building. Some early arrivals find their way to the ...  Read More

Lutheran Brethren Seminary’s commencement service was held on April 26, 2024 at Bethel Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls, MN.The following is information about the 2024 graduates and the recognizing the...  Read More

The Church of the Lutheran Brethren has a rich heritage as a Church called to partner in the disciple-making mission that our Lord Christ called us to. In the year 1900, five congregations from Minnes...  Read More

This was one of my favorite Women’s Ministries conventions! Why? I think it was how the theme of “Women Together” was embodied in this day.Together, every two years, we, as women, have this opportunit...  Read More

Herbert Jacobsen, 88, passed away Monday, May 20, 2024. Herb was the loving husband of Helen (Jensen) Jacobsen, with whom he would have celebrated 67 years, on May 24.After serving in the U.S. Army an...  Read More

Reverend James Russell Amspacher, 90, of Fergus Falls, died Monday, May 27, 2024, at his residence. He was born October 10, 1933, in Shrewsbury Township, southeastern PA.He graduated from Bob Jones Un...  Read More

At the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, CO, 297 students gathered for five days to worship, learn, grow, and have fun. With eight speakers, a variety of seminars, and one big concert by hip-hop arti...  Read More

Brett Sawchuk was ordained as an elder at Peace Lutheran Church, Calgary, AB, on June 2, 2024. CLB Canada President, Pastor Harold Rust, officiated. Pictured L to R: Pastor Harold Rust, Pastor Anthony...  Read More

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. These studies are centered on the theme of each issue.For this editio...  Read More

I don’t know if the church gets much more divided than during an election year. 2024 is shaping up to be no different. How might we, the body of Christ, think and behave in such a divisive climate?In ...  Read More

Most of us think of a “kingdom” as a place. But when Scripture speaks of the “kingdom of God,” it is not speaking of a place, a locality in the sky to which we shall fly away some glad morning when th...  Read More

As we look at the culture of the United States today, certain words come up often: anger, distrust, political and cultural division, confusion, hopelessness, and isolation. This was magnified during t...  Read More

The words of John 17 sparkle as I read them. Jesus is praying for us, for all believers, for all time: “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name.” (17:11)But even as Jesus prays for our pro...  Read More

After a particularly effective sermon, a parishioner might say to the preacher, “Thank you for your message today. I found it so moving.” It’s a remarkable turn of phrase, when you think about it. Isa...  Read More

The Church of the Lutheran Brethren sent its first missionaries to the continent of Africa in 1918. Berge and Herborg Revne set sail out of New York harbor on November 23rd of that year. About a month...  Read More

Ruth Edlund, 88, of Ashby, MN, passed away peacefully on March 10, 2024. Ruth was commissioned to go to Sudan (present day Cameroon) on August 23, 1959, following in the footsteps of her sister, Orpha...  Read More

Discipleship, discipleship, discipleship. Over and over the speakers at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida, pounded that word and its meaning into the heads and hearts of the conference at...  Read More

Grace Community Church, (Wesley Chapel, Florida) welcomed two new elders on March 3, 2024. Front row: (L to R) New elders, Don Fry and Danny Morris. Back row: (L to R) CLB President Paul Larson, Elder...  Read More

Lincoln Church, a CLB Church Plant in Lincoln, North Dakota, held their first official worship service on Easter Sunday! Over 75 people attended the Easter Egg Hunt and Worship Service, most being fro...  Read More

Rev. Mike Natale speaking at morning chapel at Lutheran Brethren Seminary. My name is Mike Natale. I’m 38 years old and have been married to my wife, Lindsay, for 14 years. I grew up in New Jersey and...  Read More

Our goal is to provide a practical resource for you, your small group, or your family, that can be easily implemented and applied. It is centered on the theme of each issue.For this edition we’ve crea...  Read More

As we approach the upcoming CLB Biennial Convention (June 8-11), one item of business is presenting for approval the “Statement on Human Persons and Sexuality,” a draft of which was presented and disc...  Read More