Posts with the category “international-mission”

The anything-but-physically-smooth road to Doh has been paved with an unimaginable smoothness as experienced through the Lord’s kindness and faithfulness throughout our journey. Like all our contempor...  Read More

Our Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) missionary families live and serve in cultural contexts that are very different from their home cultures. They navigate life in different languages a...  Read More

The Fraser Family out for a walk in their new neighborhood. When God sent his Son to dwell among us, Jesus not only stepped into our world as God incarnate, but humbled himself to a position where oth...  Read More

A new Glimpse Project has just been recorded and is scheduled to be edited and distributed in spring 2024. Micah and Cari Nordtvedt traveled to Taiwan and Japan to visit and interview LBIM missionarie...  Read More

The 2023 LBIM global retreat is underway! Our missionaries from Chad, Japan, and Taiwan have gathered together at one venue in Chiangmai, Thailand, for a week of fellowship, worship, prayer, rest, ren...  Read More

Dan and Claire made the move from our Welcome Center in Ndjamena to their new ministry site, a rural village about a 7 hour trip to the southeast. There they will join our team among the Fulbe people,...  Read More

Missionary Dean Bengtson and Pastor Wakamatsu, JLBC President, in the repaired sanctuary. Heavy rains over the summer caused flooding in the region of Akita, Japan. This resulted in damage in both the...  Read More

Over the many years I have been attending Bethesda Lutheran Brethren Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, I have appreciated our ministry in overseas missions. I was delighted that every year, it seemed, ...  Read More

The Church Trends and Research Association is an evangelical group in Taiwan that provides statistics on Taiwanese Christians and churches every two years. Since the 1990s, the numbers of Christians i...  Read More

Paul and Alexa Fraser, and their boys, Arthur and Oswald, have arrived in Sendai, Japan. They were met by LBIM veterans, Dean and Linda Bengtson, and by JLBC (Japan Lutheran Brethren Church)  presiden...  Read More

In the past five months, we’ve both finished another semester of theological studies, both made long journeys to other countries to search out the future, both received and responded to a call to serv...  Read More

Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) missionaries serve around the world in contexts that differ greatly from their home cultures. They navigate life in a different language, often in an are...  Read More

On Sunday, June 11, 2023, at Rock of Ages Church (Seattle, WA), Paul & Alexa Fraser were commissioned as missionaries to Japan. Please pray for the Frasers as they prepare to leave for Japan and for R...  Read More

The following is an exciting update, originally posted by Ben and Sara Hosch, that we are sharing in this group with their permission:Hello Friends and Supporters! We want to thank all of you for your...  Read More

Paul Fraser leading during a bilingual service at Rock of Ages, Seattle, WA. Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) has a long history in Japan. In 1948, Morris Werdal, son of Marius and Marie...  Read More

Our current church had no obligation to bring me into their community as much as they did.Our family will soon be sent to Japan as missionaries with Lutheran Brethren International Mission. Because op...  Read More

On April 6, 2023, Ellie Bourque (pictured) accepted a call to serve as LBIM’s newest missionary to Chad. Ellie has spent the last two years at LBS, obtaining a Certificate of Theological Study in Miss...  Read More

This pictured well, in a Chadian community village, marks the 200th well installed in Chad through LBIM's Living Waters ministry!It all started 14 years ago...In 2009, a friend and member of one of ou...  Read More

We are very excited to announce Paul & Alexa Fraser as our next missionaries to Japan. Over the last year, conversations with Dan Venberg, Director of International Mission, about a renewed partnershi...  Read More

Jesus is endowed with all the authority of heaven and earth (Matt. 28:18). And it is in and because of this authority that he calls us, commissions us—yes, commands us—his Church, to “go into all the ...  Read More

International Mission Director Dan Venberg recently visited Taiwan to spend time with our missionaries and the Taiwanese church leadership. The future of collaboration with the Chinese Lutheran Brethr...  Read More

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

"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

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

Women Together is the tagline for the Women’s Ministries of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren (WMCLB) vision and values statements that were formed this past year. This has also been fitting for thi...  Read More

"So, how were you called?” During this past year and a half of studying at Lutheran Brethren Seminary in preparation for mission work in Chad, I’ve been asked that question more than a couple of times...  Read More

In December 2021 we packed up our belongings and moved from Hsinchu to Taichung City. After having spent the past three years in Mandarin Chinese study and visiting our Chinese Lutheran Brethren churc...  Read More

We are praising the Lord that the books of Genesis, Ruth, Jonah, and the Gospel of John are now translated into the Barma language and in print for the first time for the Bagirmi people of Chad. These...  Read More

Meet T (name removed online for privacy). She is the wife of A and mother of ten beautiful, hard-working children. T and A are our Chadian missionary partners in our village (See above photo). They ha...  Read More

Kaardal descendants meeting with CLB representatives at the grave of Jetmund and Sofie Kaardal. I can only imagine the emotions and thoughts that flowed through the minds of Jetmund and Sofie Kaardal ...  Read More

After 35 years of faithful missionary service in Taiwan, Michael and Delores Kittelson will be retiring from the field. They will be returning to the United States in December of this year, and will r...  Read More

By the time you are reading this article my family and I will, Lord willing, be in Chad serving as CLB missionaries to the unreached. God has been very gentle with our family in leading us through pre...  Read More

En ce moment (“at this time,” in French), we live in a constant tension between the hard and the good. This period of transition from France to Chad, while at times hard and overwhelming, can be at th...  Read More

Over the years, I have seen many Glimpse Project videos detailing Lutheran Brethren International Mission (LBIM) work in Chad. But it was an entirely different experience to stay with and get to know ...  Read More

Jesus mentions proselytism only once, and it’s not nice. In Matthew 23:15 (ESV), he says, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte,...  Read More

Recently I have been studying the story of Elijah, the Old Testament prophet. I often preorder English Bible study materials according to the mood of the day. I like the author of the material. Or… th...  Read More