Thirty-one members of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Montgomery, AL attended our Prayer Ministry workshop. We used our book, “iPray” to facilitate a training session which equipped these members to help their fellow worshippers in understanding what the Bible, our Confessions and historic Church worship have said regarding Prayer; not for the sake of
Every month our Elders take 30 minutes out of their meeting to Prayer Walk their families; but they do this using their phones- they “Let their phones do the walking”. This past month, we welcomed a new Elder at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Westfield, NJ. He asked for more information on how this
The first Sunday he was at Al Udeid Air Base, LtCol Dave Huxsoll came to my chapel service. Before worship began LtCol Huxsoll asked if I was taking Prayer requests. I told him I was and Dave asked that we include his daughter in our prayers- she was being confirmed that Sunday and he
Celebrating Mission Sundays with partner congregations is always special and it was definitely so on January 11th when my family and I were blessed to worship with Pr. Deric Taylor and his flock at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Fair Lawn, NJ. Pr. Taylor and the members were faithful to me during my recent deployment
By God’s grace, we are establishing food pantries in our Lutheran congregation in Newark and Jersey City. The members of our churches there are establishing the guidelines for how this ministry will be carried out and they have identified congregational leaders to help their pastors with this ministry. It is important to learn the Scriptural
“We Don’t Have Any Resources; But We Trust God” Yesterday was a big day in ministry; it was also a good day. About two months earlier, I was first contacted about the possibility of a donor giving a car to support my work and was asked, “Would I want a car?” I love those kind
When Jesus sent out the disciples on their first recorded short-term mission trips in Luke 10closeLuke 10 Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two 10:1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said
There are chapters in the Bible that are well known and loved for their content. Psalm 23closePsalm 23 The Lord Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He
When Jesus sent out His disciples on their first “short term mission trips” (in Matthew 10closeMatthew 10 The Twelve Apostles 10:1 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. 2 The names of the twelve apostles are these:
Prayer and Planting Study Notes: John 17:20-26closeJohn 17:20-26 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world
