On April 3 of this year, Lutheran Hour Ministries—Chile aired the first segment of Mejor Vivir (“Better Living”), its new radio program broadcast on the El sol de La Florida (“The Sun of La Florida”) community radio station. Ministry center Director Marianela Bravo, who also hosts the program, says Mejor Vivir is a miscellany that …
This spring Lutheran Hour Ministries’ International Division launched a brand-new ministry center in the West African country of Liberia. On Saturday, June 1, the new center will reach an important milestone: the airing of its first radio broadcast! Liberia is a country with an estimated population of just over 4 million; about 40 percent of …
Nanisana High School is a secondary school in Antananarivo, Madagascar. In 2008, Mr. Felix, a Lutheran Hour Ministries—Madagascar volunteer, introduced LHM’s Bible Correspondence Course program at the school; next he provided film showings, coordinated a sports tournament and furnished the school’s library with the ministry center’s booklets. An “LHM Club” was born at the school. …
For fifteen years, singer-songwriter Igor Baranchikov has performed his program titled “Stop” at more than 700 prisons throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union. Baranchikov’s one-man show is designed to help prevent drug and alcohol abuse; its message, a call to spiritual and moral living, is rooted in the Scriptures. In 2012, Lutheran Hour Ministries—Russia …
When Albert Dinesh and six college friends accepted an invitation to attend a youth retreat presented by a church in Chennai, they gave little thought at first to the Gospel message or the call to discipleship and witness that they might hear. The 18- and 19-year-olds expected to spend a fun day with some of …
Over the past few years, staff and volunteers from Lutheran Hour Ministries—Panama have paid many visits to the Pedro J. Sosa School in Panama City as part of the ministry center’s Project JOEL partnership with the school. They returned in March this year with a program that focused on the events leading up to Jesus’ … Continue reading »
“Thanks be to God for letting me know about your Bible Correspondence Courses for the children in our church!” No doubt you can sense the thrill in Pastor Nguyen Bihn Tin’s words (above) in a recent letter to Lutheran Hour Ministries—Vietnam Director Dinh Hai Au about the center’s Bible Correspondence Course resources for children. The courses … Continue reading »
(You can read this and other great articles in the March-April issue of ‘The Lutheran Layman.’) How important is building relationships to the spread of the Gospel? Lutheran Hour Ministries’ center in the Republic of Latvia knows. As part of Lutheran Hour Ministries’ international focus of reaching out to children and youth, one of the … Continue reading »
Our Lutheran Hour Ministries International Volunteer Team from St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mt. Prospect, Ill., concludes the journal of their trip to participate in the ministry of our Cambodia ministry center. It is hard to believe this was our last day in Prich Village. Today’s task was to haul rocks and clay to build a … Continue reading »
Nuru Media Ministry, our Lutheran Hour Ministries center in Kenya, provides evangelism and follow-up support in a multi-partner program to reach out through medical clinics—particularly in the eastern region of Kenya, near the coast. Nuru’s partners include The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Medical Mission, LCMS congregations in the United States and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in … Continue reading »
Our Lutheran Hour Ministries International Volunteer Team from St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mt. Prospect, Ill., continues the journal of their trip to participate in the work of our Cambodia ministry center. The Cambodian construction crew had just finished laying the first row of bricks on one side of the building when we arrived early this … Continue reading »
Our Lutheran Hour Ministries International Volunteer Team from St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mt. Prospect, Ill., continues the journal of their trip to participate in the ministry of our Cambodia ministry center. This morning we headed out to the village of Sro Gne—a very rural farm area. The leader of the village (mayor) and his wife … Continue reading »
