It was a group of young people who made the connection. While serving on a summer mission trip, a youth mission team met a young mom and her children near Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church in San Antonio-also the home of LINC San Antonio. The youth invited the mom and
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A very special thank you to the choir, staff and pastors of Peace Lutheran Church Hurst and the Choir of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Dallas for all the work they did to make our mission celebration an inspiring and enjoyable day. We also thank Thrivent Financial for sponsoring the dinner.
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The story of Philip’s encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch recorded in Acts 8:26-40 is familiar to most of us: 1. Philip called by God to go down the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. 2. Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch who was reading scriptures. 3. Philip finds out the Ethiopian does
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Mission Prayer—Because No One Can Do This Alone An elderly pastor told me some of his story regarding his evangelism activity. Long retired but still active as a disciple, he would go to a bar at a ski lodge with regularity and sit at a table. His drink was sweetened
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Sealy “After Dark” A little more than 2 years ago Pastor Jonathan Brandenburg accepted a call to LifeBridge Church in Sealy, Texas. At the time, LifeBridge, launched by three laymen in 2013, had approximately 40 worshipping on a Sunday. Sealy is a small town in southeastern Texas. The population is
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Reaching Arabic People with the Gospel The LCMS Texas District in 1973 was focused on increasing the number of Hispanic congregations. There was good reason to do so since the Hispanic population was the fastest growing population in the state. God blessed our efforts and new Hispanic congregations were formed. In 1973, few people were even thinking about reaching Arabic people, but many
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It was the place where followers of Christ were first called “Christians.” The name was rooted not in the Hebrew culture, but in a Greek expression. Outsiders who trusted in Christ branded the church that we are a part of today. It all happened in the city of Antioch –
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Over 800 Early Childhood Educators from across the state gathered in Montgomery (outside of Houston) to attend the Texas District Early Childhood Educators’ Conference held January 28-30, 2016. This year’s conference theme was “I Love to Tell the Story” from Joel 1:3 “Tell it to your children, and let your
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You’ve heard the statistic before: the population in Texas is growing by 500,000 people each year. More than two-thirds of those people do not know Jesus as Savior and are not connected with a church. And God has placed us here in the Texas District to be the light of
Continue readingHeadlines and studies continue to tell us that it is nearly impossible to reach Millennials with the Gospel. But, as the Scriptures say, “The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12 ESV). In the Texas District, the Word of God is reaching Millennials
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