Dan and Claire made the move from our Welcome Center in Ndjamena to their new ministry site, a rural village about a 7 hour trip to the southeast. There they will join our team among the Fulbe people,...  Read More

I am pleased to announce that Tim Mathiesen has accepted the call to step into the role of Director of Communications & Prayer for the Church of the Lutheran Brethren (CLB).Tim is married to Jenny, an...  Read More

Missionary Dean Bengtson and Pastor Wakamatsu, JLBC President, in the repaired sanctuary. Heavy rains over the summer caused flooding in the region of Akita, Japan. This resulted in damage in both the...  Read More

Last fall, my boys decided to set up a lemonade stand to make some extra money. I liked the initiative but reminded them that we live in the country on a dead-end road. The young entrepreneurs saw the...  Read More

xpertly sandwiched in Mark 10—between a teaching on divorce and a rich, young man’s naïveté—there stands a lesson on the littlest among us. Parents and caregivers bring their children to Jesus, just t...  Read More

We’ve all likely heard about “having child-like faith.” While you won’t find that phrase in the Bible, it’s a popular phrase for a reason. Consider Mark 10:15, and the context:People were bringing lit...  Read More

You know the verse: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6, KJV). Then in Ephesians 6:4, Paul wrote, “bring them up in the training a...  Read More

Over the many years I have been attending Bethesda Lutheran Brethren Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, I have appreciated our ministry in overseas missions. I was delighted that every year, it seemed, ...  Read More

Last October, the WMCLB launched a cohort of women reading through Gretchen Ronnevik’s book Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted, and I am grateful to have joined. Every meeting...  Read More

If Satan’s fiercest warfare on our people over the past half-century had been made directly on one of the Church’s doctrines, we might have been better prepared. When there was dissension over the doc...  Read More

I recall, several years ago, loading my kids into our minivan. The kids were still young, and it was always a production to get out of the door. Diaper bag, shoes, snacks, water bottles… Even a routin...  Read More

The Church Trends and Research Association is an evangelical group in Taiwan that provides statistics on Taiwanese Christians and churches every two years. Since the 1990s, the numbers of Christians i...  Read More