Bible Studies
Let’s Talk About World Mission Souvenirs Bible Study
Intriguing images and inspirational stories from the World Outreach ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Peru, Chile, India, Korea, Ukraine, Czechia and Latvia.
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Original World Mission Souvenirs Series
Kindness to a Stranger
At a fishing village on Black Mountain Island (Haeksando), off the western coast of South Korea, I f…
What Goes Around…
At tourist attractions in Australia you can watch a demonstration of the returning boomerang. This h…
Welcome to Our Church
Great honor is bestowed on guests who are received in Indian village churches. On one occasion, as w…
True Christmas Gift-giving
This World Mission Souvenir was purchased at a street market on a snowy afternoon in Kiev, Ukraine. …
The Companions God Gives Us
Traveling eastward by train from Ternopil to Kiev, Ukraine, we rolled across flat farmland under a c…
The Pastor and the Paper Picker
Pastor Watson served a small Lutheran congregation in a thatch-roof village in India. After a chicke…
More World Mission Souvenir Photos
WMS Photo 24
Another note about the elephant-headed Hindu deity, Ganesh, who is thought to muscle obstacles from the path of the faithful. At the conclusion of a festival honoring Ganesh, small idols are immersed in rivers. Too many have slipped through wet fingers into the waters, causing a pollution problem. The solution? Now one can buy a bio-degradable idol. Of course, Ganesh, like all idols, has always been bio-degradable and will be shown to be so on Judgment Day. Jesus said… I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. (John 14:6)