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The Death (and resurrection) of a Vision |
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It may puzzle us as to why a God-inspired ambition would be left to die. But it happens. In fact, in speaking to youth back in the 70’s, Bill Gothard named it the death of a vision. The Lord confirms its truth to our family, again and again.
For example, from my conversion in my youth, I experienced an ever-growing curiosity to understand the unfolding revelation in Scripture as well as Christian doctrine. They marveled me as nothing else. I walked four miles to work with one eye on a book and another on traffic! At a midlife point, I accepted a call to ministry and signed up at a local Bible College. An architect with whom I was working at the time remarked that, from that day forward, I walked with a lighter step. The classes were for me a piece of heaven, delicious beyond telling. Standing in the library stacks before theological works, my insides trembled, devoured with desire to digest it all.
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International Relief Effort in Japan |
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I am the English pastor at Victory Lutheran Church in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and I led a team of eight to work alongside Dean Bengtson in relief work in Ishinomaki in August.
It was an interesting experience working in Japan with a team from Taiwan. I was in Japan in April to help with the relief work and it was amazing to see how much had been cleaned up in three months but how much more still needed to be done.
Dean has been working in the Shintate neighborhood of Ishinomaki for several months. He’s been coordinating teams that have come from all over the world. He began working in one home (the Nakagawa home) in April and God opened up doors for working in the entire neighborhood. There is one Christian in a distant corner of the neighborhood. Pray for this neighborhood that the people there would come to know God as their Lord and Savior.
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Beginning in 1902 with missionaries to China, Lutheran Brethren International Mission has sent hundreds of missionaries to countries in Asia and Africa. The primary focus is taking the Good News of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups who have no indigenous church through which the gospel can be spread. We currently have missionaries in Chad, Japan, and Taiwan working among unreached people groups. LBIM is the international mission sphere of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren in North America.