Together Archive

Items about Africa

  • Committee finishes assessing aid in Africa

    After meeting with almost three-quarters of the national pastors of the Lutheran Church of Central Africa (LCCA), visiting 14 congregations in Malawi and Zambia, and talking with WELS missionaries in the region, the WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee concluded its two-week assessment of committee-funded humanitarian aid projects in Africa. Committee members were encouraged to see the impact that projects... read more

    Published on: August 18, 2008

  • WELS humanitarian aid trip to Africa

    The three members of WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee—which exists to help spread the gospel by providing points of contact with people through humanitarian aid—are traveling to Africa July 24 and will spend two weeks assessing the committee's projects that are currently being carried out in Malawi and Zambia... read more

    Published on: July 21, 2008

  • Ten graduate from seminary in Nigeria

    Ten students graduated from Christ the King Lutheran Seminary in the village of Uruk Uso, Nigeria, on April 5. Seven were ordained April 20 and will begin work in the parishes of All Saints Lutheran Church, a synod of about 5,000 souls that is in fellowship with Christ the King Lutheran Church and WELS. The other three will vicar until they are ordained in December... read more

    Published on: April 21, 2008

  • Cameroon update

    In a breaking news edition of "Together" on Friday, prayers were requested for two WELS pastors and their families currently in Cameroon. Reports say as many as 20 people have been killed in rioting there as the African nation experiences the worst violence it has seen in 15 years... read more

    Published on: March 3, 2008

  • WELS families still in Cameroon following violent riots, shootings

    Breaking news... read more

    Published on: February 29, 2008

  • Missionary accepts call to Mozambique

    Rev. Jeff Enderle, pastor at Gethsemane, Omaha, Neb., has accepted the call to be part of WELS' first missionary team to Mozambique, Africa. Enderle joins Mr. Bill Meier, previously a lay missionary to Malawi, who accepted the call to Mozambique last May. This is the first time since 1998 WELS is sending resident missionaries into a new world mission field... read more

    Published on: December 3, 2007