by Rodney Venberg | Faith & Fellowship magazine, International Mission
The Church of the Lutheran Brethren has been sharing the Good News about Jesus Christ in the countries of Chad and Cameroon since 1920. Have all the personnel, the finances, the prayers been worth it? Since the work began, communicant membership in the churches in...
by Faith & Fellowship | International Mission, Lutheran Brethren Seminary, North American Mission
Greetings from the Church of the Lutheran Brethren. It is indeed a privilege to come to you with an update on our finances. We were roughly $65,000 short of our anticipated goal at the end of August. That means we were 13% behind our goal for the year. We were...
by Steve Tonneson | Faith & Fellowship magazine, International Mission, Lutheran Brethren Seminary, North American Mission, We are LB Church (NEWS)
At the 2016 CLB Biennial Convention President Paul Larson sat down with Steve Tonneson, the CLB’s new Associate for Advancement Ministry. Tell us about yourself. I am a graduate of Minot (North Dakota) High School and Minot State University, where I earned my degree...
by Ed Nugent | International Mission
The gift was a small goat. It couldn’t have weighed more than 30 pounds. As it was led to a tree and tied up in the shade next to our Land Cruiser we all looked at each other with uncomfortable eyes. Finally one of us said what we were all thinking. “We are NOT going...
by Linda Bengtson | International Mission, WMCLB
I checked my watch, it was 10:45AM. I wondered… was it too early to ring the doorbell? March 11 was still two weeks out, but it was going to take a long time to pass out 1000 advertisements for the five-year memorial concerts. As much as time allowed, we wanted to...
by Marcos Holzner | International Mission
It’s been six weeks! Ahmed planted his field before the first rains, just like he does every year, but it has been six weeks since there has been any real rain. He has started to worry, and so have his neighbors. In fact the whole town is worried. If it does not rain...