Laypeople have a long history of serving in support of WELS troops. During WWII it took many hands to record the thousands of names onto index cards and file them into shoeboxes so that we could keep track of them. Lay support continued up to the Gulf Wars as volunteers assisted Special Ministries …
Weekly Devotions
Weekly Devotion- Plans
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11) An old saying declares, “If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans.” More than one person has decided this is true. The background to …
Weekly Devotion – A Father’s Pain
The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son”! (II Samuel 18:33) Mothers may shed more tears, but fathers are no strangers to anguish. The father …
