The year 2007 was our second full year of enrollment in Thrivents GivingPlus program. This is the program which allows members of Thrivent to have their donation to WMPL supplemented by Thrivent Financial. The program has been a tremendous blessing … (read more)
For the World Mission Prayer League, 2007 was little different than previous years. God was faithful in meeting all of our needs. We again sent out new missionaries to new areas of service. Our seasoned veterans persevered as they have … (read more)
New Testament people are a wonderfully unusual bunch. Not perhaps for the way they look. Not for the way they dress or the things they do or say. They are unusual for who they are — for their basic … (read more)
A few days ago I returned from a wonderful visit to several of our mission partners in India. I returned to Minneapolis full of enthusiasm — the sort of enthusiasm that issues from the conviction that God is at work … (read more)
If you are a football fan you have certainly noticed that Minnesota Viking rookie running back, Adrian Peterson is having a record setting year. Already at the half way point of his first season he has set two NFL records … (read more)
Why Bethlehem, of all places in the world? Why should the Savior of all peoples everywhere land here – in “the little town of Bethlehem”? Surely our wonderful Lord might have done better! Heaven must have known, for example, that … (read more)
I recently came across a study put out by the Pew Research Center in 2006. In the study Americans were asked to choose which items from a list of several things were considered a necessity in their lives. The results … (read more)
It turns out that the earth is rather smaller than previously estimated. I learned of the discrepancy just the other day. Researcher Axel Nothnagel of the University of Bonn discovered the error, having recently completed a measure of the earth’s … (read more)
Every once and a while I like to update our members as to the amount that it costs to fully support our missionaries. The fielding cost is the total of all expenses necessary to support a missionary for a month … (read more)
I have been thinking lately of a little word from the New Testament — a word, like so many, that has changed dramatically over the years. It is a little word with big implications — paroikos, from which we derive … (read more)