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Partnership in Ethiopia

March 13, 2014 By Faith

Imagine this: You are in a congregation that began less than 20 years ago. You started with 368 members and are now well over 7,000. In this brief history you have already given birth to fifteen congregations and send out nearly 60 evangelists in your city (a largely Muslim region) and across the country. You are in your third 5-year strategic plan and have the intention of giving birth to 10 more congregations within the next five years. You are even expecting to send missionaries to troubled lands like Somalia and South Sudan.

This is our new and inspiring partner, the Tabor Congregation from Ethiopia, from whom we will receive more than we will give. We pray this partnership will call forth others within our denominational body, Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC), and congregations and synods of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY). A delegation of 11 people from the Augustana District (including Faith Lutheran’s Pastor Paul Knudson) visited Tabor in January, and brought back with them excitement for this new partnership.

Stay tuned, and you will see marvelous mission endeavors multiplied through the power of the Holy Spirit working within and among us.

One of the Tabor Congregation's worship spaces
One of the Tabor Congregation’s worship spaces

Filed Under: Augustana District, Missions, News Tagged With: Augustana District, Ethiopia, mission trip

Come Over to Ethiopia and Help Us!

August 28, 2013 By Faith

Have you ever felt called to mission work overseas? The Augustana District is sending a delegation to Ethiopia to develop a partnership in mission with the Tabor Congregation in the southern city of Hawassa.

This mission trip is scheduled for January 9-19 and is intended to be a time for us to be inspired for witness by this dynamic community of Christians as we determine how we can walk with them in their mission. Read full information about this mission trip, and find an application form here.

Pastor Paul Knudson from Faith Lutheran Church is coordinating the trip and would love for one or two from Faith Lutheran to join him and several others on this mission venture. Applications for the trip are due by Sept. 15.  Speak with Pastor Paul if you have interest in exploring this opportunity. 320-587-2093, [email protected].

 

Worship at the Tabor Congregation
Worship at the Tabor Congregation
Members from the Tabor Congregation in Ethiopia.
Members from the Tabor Congregation in Ethiopia.

 

Filed Under: Missions, News Tagged With: Ethiopia, mission trip, Pastor Paul Knudson

A Seed in Good Soil

August 2, 2013 By Faith

It was the morning that Faith’s youth mission trip was leaving for New Orleans. Club 218, the summer day-camp for underprivileged children (which was itself inspired by an earlier mission trip to West Virginia), was also meeting that day, and one of the leaders was there early, getting ready.

Before the mission trip caravan left, one of the participants went downstairs to visit with the Club 218 leader. He had served with Club 218 in past years, but his work schedule prevented it this summer. He was curious how the program was going this year.

In the course of the conversation, he noted that, while his family does belong to another church in town, they rarely, if ever, participate. He had started serving at Club 218 only because a couple of his friends had talked him into it. But from there, he got connected to FLY (Faith Lutheran Youth) and now he was heading out on a mission trip to serve Christ by serving others.

The FLY mission trips are highlights of Faith’s ministry each summer and we rightly focus on how they extend our church’s ministry across the country. We might miss, though, how they also extend our ministry right here in Hutchinson. For at least one young man, this year’s trip was a significant milestone on his journey of faith, all because other youth on fire for Christ invited him to join in their service to “the least of these.”

How else is God reaching out through Faith to bring Christ’s love into the lives of others? What seed might a kind word or an invitation plant today? How might God use you and me to reach out to others in order to draw them into a saving relationship of faith in Jesus?

In Mark 4, Jesus told the Parable of the Sower, who lavishly threw precious seed in every direction. Much of it fell on hard ground or was choked out by thorns. But “other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundred-fold.”

Like the sower, we can’t control or predict where the seed of God’s Word will take root and grow, but that’s not our job. Like the sower, our job is to cast God’s precious seed in every direction and then marvel, not that so much of it seems to be wasted, but when God brings amazing, abundant growth from our small efforts.

Grace and peace,
Pastor Scott Grorud

P.S. Do you know where the name “Club 218” originated? It is from the Bible verse, James 2:18: “But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.” That, in turn, inspired the Club 218 motto: “Let Your Life Be a Testament.” What a powerful witness from young members of our church and community!

Filed Under: Club 218, News, Scott Grorud, Youth Tagged With: Club 218, FLYouth, mission trip, New Orleans

When these Saints go marching in…

July 15, 2013 By Faith

The 2013 mission trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, left the Faith Lutheran parking log at 8am on Friday, July 12, bound for the Big Easy. Check back here throughout the week to see pictures and hear updates from the trip. We’ll post the most recent pictures and info at the top.

Have a prayer you want to lift up for the mission trip? Use #flynola13 if you’re using Twitter or Facebook.

 

Found under the windshield wiper of one of the vans before leaving New Orleans on Friday morning.
Found under the windshield wiper of one of the vans before leaving New Orleans on Friday morning.

From Dave Wollan’s Facebook Page on Friday evening: Amazing, emotional, and powerful night last night. Praise God for this trip and this group. Now, time to hit the road!

Singing (and painting) in the rain!
Singing (and painting) in the rain!

 

 

Last day on the work sites in New Orleans.
Last day on the work sites in New Orleans.
Club on Tuesday (the nightly Youthworks! tradition of worship and reflection each night of the mission trip).
Club on Tuesday (the nightly Youthworks! tradition of worship and reflection each night of the mission trip).
The group in front of the Ninth Ward Levee.
The group in front of the Ninth Ward Levee.
Ice cream at Creole Creamery on Tuesday night.
Ice cream at Creole Creamery on Tuesday night.
Worship on Monday night.
Worship on Monday night.
The Lafayette crew at the Bridgehouse work site on Monday.
The Lafayette crew at the Bridgehouse work site on Monday.

From Dave Wollan’s Facebook Page on Monday evening: “The work crews are returning to site and the stories are starting to flow. Day one = success! French Quarter tonight!

Welcome to the New Orleans Youthworks! site!
Welcome to the New Orleans Youthworks! site!
Welcome to NOLA! The group arrived safely in New Orleans on Sunday evening.
Welcome to NOLA! The group arrived safely in New Orleans on Sunday evening.
Stop for lunch on Sunday afternoon.
Stop for lunch on Sunday afternoon.
Worship on Sunday morning in Jackson, Mississippi.
Worship on Sunday morning in Jackson, Mississippi. We heard the group enjoyed some Mississippi barbeque on Saturday night!
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Intense game of tether ball on Sunday morning before leaving Mississippi.
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Passing by the St. Louis arch on Saturday morning!
7.12 worship
Worship Friday night at the first overnight stop.
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Nice gym at the group’s first church in Illinois.
Stop for lunch on Friday in Waterloo, IA.
Stop for lunch on Friday in Waterloo, IA.
Send off photo
The whole group, just before they left on Friday morning.

Comments about the mission trip on Twitter: (7-12-13 and earlier)

Jessi Wendland @heartMKjessi
Wishes for safe travels, amazing stories, journey of a lifetime, and a walk with God to those on the Mission Trip! @FaithLutheran #flynola13

Marc Vaillancourt @bassclefmusic
Faith Lutheran #Hutchinson #missiontrip crew. Heading to NOLA. #flynola13 http://instagram.com/p/bqqpYhjoqe/

Nissa(: @nissagrina
Goodbye twitter, Minnesota, texting, family and friends #flynola13

Amy DuFrene @amydufrene
Have a safe, wonderful trip Faith. My God be glorified! #flynola13

Brooke Ruschmeyer @brookerusch
It’s all FINALLY happening :)))) #flynola13 pic.twitter.com/BdJq4foAhb

Dave Wollan @DaveWollan
New Orleans Mission Trip prayer topic of the day: That God would make our big group 1 big FLY Family! Pray and Retweet! #flynola13

Anna Hanson @AnnaaHanson
While driving to MOA I drive past a large group of white vans. I wonder what those are for? #flynola13 @SaraWegner @DaveWollan @gbonnema

Filed Under: Missions, News, Youth Tagged With: Dave Wollan, FLYouth, mission trip, New Orleans

Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser

April 5, 2013 By Faith

Easter morning breakfast in pictures. The youth serve breakfast on Easter morning each year to raise money (via free will offerings) for the summer mission trip (this year 90 participants are going to New Orleans). They had a successful morning this year — Country Kitchen donated the pancakes and egg bake was homemade, so overhead was down. We have some great shots of this year’s event — thanks to Lisa Ishihara, who was the photographer at the breakfast.

 

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See all the Easter breakfast pictures:

These are some of our confirmation students… but not necessarily the ones who provided the quotes above.

Filed Under: Giving, Missions, News, Youth Tagged With: Easter, FLYouth, mission trip, New Orleans

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