On February 6, 2014, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans announced a “Financial Neutrality Policy” regarding funding of charitable organizations. Thrivent now categorizes abortion and homosexuality as… Read More »Thrivent Financial Neutrality Policy Concerns
The past two days were spent on two 6-hour round trips each day. Yesterday we drove to Guntipalli, where a new school was built in… Read More »India Diary – Part 8
Today began with meetings. We met with the two district presidents, with a student who will be starting seminary training and with several other pastors.… Read More »India Diary – Part 7
Praise be to God! Another eight pastors were ordained into the pastoral ministry today in Hyderabad, India. This raises the total number of ordained pastors… Read More »India Diary – Part 6
How do you describe 175 children singing and throwing flower petals as you walk into their school? It’s quite an experience! Today we visited Grace… Read More »India Diary – Part 5
Today we attended the service at the newly-dedicated Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Pastor Kalyan Gollapalli served as liturgist, Pastors G.J. Ananda Raju and Sagar Gollapalli… Read More »India Diary – Part 4
Today we spent a lot of time driving. We visited four churches in the Rajahmundry district and met the leaders and members of each congregation.… Read More »India Diary – Part 3
Wow. It’s hard to come up with adjective to describe today. So, WOW! We were picked up at our hotel by Pastor Kalyan. As we… Read More »India Diary – Part 2
We arrived in Rajahmundry about Noon after 38 continuous hours of travel, 4 flights, 5 hours of sleep, a crazy taxi ride through Mumbai at… Read More »India Diary – Part 1
This is an important year for our ELS mission in India. Fourteen men will be ordained into the pastoral ministry, a new school will be… Read More »India Diary
