2008 Seminary Mission Trips

    During the 2008 fall semester, several students of the seminary participated in cross-cultural mission experiences.  In October, Brian Kiefat and Jason Rogness teamed up with a group mostly from Bethel LBC in Grand Forks. Wayne Stender, director of student ministries at Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, made the arrangements with a local church and several orphanages in Chihuahua, Mexico.  Their days involved a construction project and ministering to staff and children in three orphanages, but a highlight for the team was an evangelistic outreach for a new church plant on the north side of the city. Team members paired with local church members to hit the streets and invite people to a park where a drama team presented a “human video” entitled “The Redeemer.” The Lord used this outreach to touch a couple of families and to bring people to faith, which the church is now following up. 

 

     In November, seminarian Danny Bronson joined with the Cameroon 2008 team that travelled to N’Djamena, Chad where they were able to visit briefly with three of our LB missionary families; the team then moved on to Garoua, Cameroon to assist the LB Cameroonian church in evangelism and church planting. For three days, teams of three to four North Americans and Cameroonians went door to door through selected neighborhoods sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and announcing the start of a new congregation in the area. The North Americans would share a testimony and do a gospel presentation with the “Evange-cube,” a tool that tells the gospel story in pictures.  The Cameroonians were responsible to translate and to supplement what the North Americans can shared.  According to Danny Bronson, “It was exciting to hear the story from one of our teams that was approached by a woman who was a Christian, but whose husband was not. She took them several blocks away to share the story with her husband and he became a Christian that day. There were also others who expressed interest in hearing more.”

 

In response to each of these mission outreaches, please pray:

• For those who heard the gospel and came to faith in Christ
• For the churches as they conduct follow-up ministries and incorporate the new believers
• For the team members, as they reflect on what they learned of God’s mission through this experience

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