by Cheryl Olsen | Faith & Fellowship magazine, North American Mission, WMCLB
It is increasingly difficult to be a pastor or a pastor’s wife in our culture. Pastors are trained at Lutheran Brethren Seminary, but there is a need for training the women who serve alongside them. Women’s Ministries planned the first SWEET Retreat (Seminary Women...
by Faith & Fellowship | CLB Canada, Faith & Fellowship magazine, WMCLB
With Christmas approaching, I think of the story of Mary—the mother of Jesus. She is a woman of opposites. She seems to be an ordinary Jewish woman, who most likely cooked, and looked after her home, husband and children. On the other hand, the Bible tells us she had...
by Faith & Fellowship | Faith & Fellowship magazine, WMCLB
September 11, 2001 is a day that has come to represent loss for many in the United States. For me, September 19, 1980 is forever etched in my mind as the day that defines loss—the moment in time when my daughter Amanda Rae Asche was born and then died. Indescribable...
