Celebration Celebrating twenty years under the leadership of Chuck and Cindy Lindquist…and passing the baton. When? November 26, 2017 at 2:30pm Where? Calvary Lutheran Church, 7520 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Please RSVP by November 15 Installation Join … (read more)
The Prayer League Handbook uses an interesting term: “Intentional Dependence.” The Handbook portrays this as the core principle of something we call “The Prayer League Way.” Jan Tollefson, one of our seasoned missionaries with many years of experience within our … (read more)
Organizations like ours don’t simply descend from the sky. We are immersed in a story larger than ourselves. We are threads in a larger fabric. We have “taken root downward,” to borrow an image from Isaiah, that we might “bear … (read more)
While driving through the farmland of North Dakota, my father would sometimes comment on how the soil seemed less black than when he was farming. He attributed this unfortunate fact to erosion and the depletion of nutrients over years of … (read more)
We all stand somewhere. Everything must rest on something. This is true for people, projects, churches, nations – mission organizations, too. We stand upon foundations. Our milepost this month takes us to the very foundation of the World Mission Prayer … (read more)
I was thinking about cows the other day. You may wonder what brings a city slicker to think about cows, out in the suburbs in the middle of the afternoon. It wasn’t anything spiritual, at first. I was daydreaming about … (read more)
Over the past few months, we have described a series of historical “mileposts” marking our journey as a missionary community through the years. This month takes us to Bible camp along the shores of Lake Independence, just west of the … (read more)
Years ago, when I began preparing for the mission field, I overheard a member of a potential donor body say, “I don’t want to support an accountant.” “Real” missionaries, he must have thought, are evangelists, church planters, teachers, doctors, and … (read more)
In July, we arrive at another milepost in the winding history of our missionary community. On July 7, 1945, the World Mission Prayer League was legally incorporated in the State of Minnesota. It may seem a small step, and I … (read more)
Last month, I reported that we were implementing a change to our retirement plan. We introduced a 50% matching contribution to what our missionaries themselves deposit into their retirement accounts, hoping to encourage them to save. The change is now … (read more)