During this coming month of Ramadan, a Muslim holy month, we invite you to pray for Muslims around the world. Ramadan starts on Wednesday evening and runs through April 20.International Mission Direct...  Read More

Women's Ministries of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren just launched a monthly e-newsletter and devotional. If you would like to stay informed about Women's Ministries and be blessed by a monthly d...  Read More

When faced with tension, we want to eliminate it as quickly as possible. What makes a good book is often the tension the author creates. It’s sort of delicious and troubling at the same time. How’s it...  Read More

New look, new podcast! The Forge Podcast is now "Grace for the Grind." Built around roundtable discussions, this podcast aims to bring hope and grace to the daily grind of ministry and Christian life....  Read More

"Ask the Animals" is a brand new 31 chapter devotional by Dan Venberg, Director of International Mission. He writes in his introduction, "My love for God's creation and what it can teach us is the pri...  Read More

The CLBA is partnering with Youth Ministry Consultants again as they host a number of monthly one-hour long webinars on a variety of topics. We invite you to look at the schedule below and to register...  Read More

On my weekly walk to the village market, I was surprised to hear a child’s greeting ring out in clear French: “Bonjour, Monsieur!” This is the greeting that our students use at the Gethsemane school w...  Read More

Our Chad Team filling the conference room at our Welcome Center! In the 1990s, LBIM missionaries in Africa had been primarily supporting the growing Chadian LB Church in the region. As this national C...  Read More

To explain one’s call, be it to ministry in the Church or abroad as a missionary, seems to the one who is called the most ordinary thing: “Well, I was just called to do this.” When I was a pre-med stu...  Read More

Type your new text here. As baptism and communion, rest and life, God come near in Christ—all in the new covenant are anticipated in the old, signaled by such things as circumcision, Passover, promise...  Read More

The first seven years of my life were spent in Ethiopia. I remember life there being very challenging. Water was scarce. Food was scarce. I feared the weather, as it contributed to the scarcity of foo...  Read More

 To my faithful pastors who preached hundreds of sermons on discipleship over my 57 years, I am sorry. To my Sunday School teachers who faithfully prepared lessons on being a fisher of men and to yout...  Read More