Posts with the category “international-mission”

International Mission Director Dan Venberg recently visited Taiwan to spend time with our missionaries and the Taiwanese church leadership. The future of collaboration with the Chinese Lutheran Brethr...  Read More

During this coming month of Ramadan, a Muslim holy month, we invite you to pray for Muslims around the world. Ramadan starts on Wednesday evening and runs through April 20.International Mission Direct...  Read More

"Ask the Animals" is a brand new 31 chapter devotional by Dan Venberg, Director of International Mission. He writes in his introduction, "My love for God's creation and what it can teach us is the pri...  Read More

On my weekly walk to the village market, I was surprised to hear a child’s greeting ring out in clear French: “Bonjour, Monsieur!” This is the greeting that our students use at the Gethsemane school w...  Read More

Our Chad Team filling the conference room at our Welcome Center! In the 1990s, LBIM missionaries in Africa had been primarily supporting the growing Chadian LB Church in the region. As this national C...  Read More

To explain one’s call, be it to ministry in the Church or abroad as a missionary, seems to the one who is called the most ordinary thing: “Well, I was just called to do this.” When I was a pre-med stu...  Read More

Women Together is the tagline for the Women’s Ministries of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren (WMCLB) vision and values statements that were formed this past year. This has also been fitting for thi...  Read More

"So, how were you called?” During this past year and a half of studying at Lutheran Brethren Seminary in preparation for mission work in Chad, I’ve been asked that question more than a couple of times...  Read More

In December 2021 we packed up our belongings and moved from Hsinchu to Taichung City. After having spent the past three years in Mandarin Chinese study and visiting our Chinese Lutheran Brethren churc...  Read More

We are praising the Lord that the books of Genesis, Ruth, Jonah, and the Gospel of John are now translated into the Barma language and in print for the first time for the Bagirmi people of Chad. These...  Read More

Meet T (name removed online for privacy). She is the wife of A and mother of ten beautiful, hard-working children. T and A are our Chadian missionary partners in our village (See above photo). They ha...  Read More

Kaardal descendants meeting with CLB representatives at the grave of Jetmund and Sofie Kaardal. I can only imagine the emotions and thoughts that flowed through the minds of Jetmund and Sofie Kaardal ...  Read More

After 35 years of faithful missionary service in Taiwan, Michael and Delores Kittelson will be retiring from the field. They will be returning to the United States in December of this year, and will r...  Read More

By the time you are reading this article my family and I will, Lord willing, be in Chad serving as CLB missionaries to the unreached. God has been very gentle with our family in leading us through pre...  Read More

En ce moment (“at this time,” in French), we live in a constant tension between the hard and the good. This period of transition from France to Chad, while at times hard and overwhelming, can be at th...  Read More

Over the years, I have seen many Glimpse Project videos detailing Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) work in Chad. But it was an entirely different experience to stay with and get to know ...  Read More

Jesus mentions proselytism only once, and it’s not nice. In Matthew 23:15 (ESV), he says, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte,...  Read More

Recently I have been studying the story of Elijah, the Old Testament prophet. I often preorder English Bible study materials according to the mood of the day. I like the author of the material. Or… th...  Read More