Earlier this month the Texas District Board of Mission Administration visited the Haven for Hope in San Antonio. The Haven for Hope is the largest homeless shelter in the nation and serves as a key ministry venue for Rev. Dr. Ely Prieto and a team of able volunteers from LINC
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Despite another round of rain in the Cypress area that caused localized flooding, the “public launch” of Cypress Chapel was a great success. Cypress Chapel is the most recent church plant out of St. John in Cypress, where Dr. David Bahn is the senior pastor. Pastor Stephen DeMik, the planting
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In just a few weeks, University Lutheran Church (ULC) in Austin will begin to occupy a brand new ministry site. Located at the same address as the old building—on the corner of 21st and San Antonio Streets—this vibrant campus ministry will have at its disposal a portion of the ground
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James Lavender was installed as Community Connections Coordinator (C3) at Hope Lutheran in Austin on June 5. The C3 position is designed to build relationships with people in the local area in advance of Sunday morning contact. “Hope is becoming a mission center in East Austin,” Rev. Mike Newman, Mission
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It was an inauspicious beginning. The Saxon immigrants exiled their bishop, Martin Stephan, across the Mississippi River, due to sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds. The colony of immigrants was in chaos. Without a bishop, were they still a church? Added to the ecclesiastical disorder was economic privation and utter
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By: Rev. David Murillo, guest columnist, St. Paul Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX Swedish Dude: “You want to go to a subway party? Me: Huh? Like…Subway…. sandwiches? Swedish Dude: No. It’s a full on party. On the Subway train. Me: Uh…. sure, why not” This was the brief conversation I
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Churches are planting churches to reach the lost and make disciples across the state. Mission outreach is alive in Texas—exciting times! In Houston, Christ the King, Pastor Al Doering, and Lamb of God, Pastor Mark Brunette, are partnering together to plant a church along the Grand Parkway. A model of
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God sent His one and only Son for our salvation. Jesus sent His followers to proclaim His name and demonstrate His love, grace, and power. God’s people, the church, send workers into the abundant harvest field. Eagle Ford Church, based in Kenedy, Texas, is in the midst of sending. Jonathan
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Linthicum, the author of City of God – City of Satan, was the North American Mission Enablers (NAME) of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod conference speaker one spring in the late 1990s. I vividly remember how he opened his presentation on urban ministry—he opened his arms and said, “God Loves the
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The water just kept rising on April 19th and 20th. All the home owners could do was watch. When it was all over, the event was described as a 500 year flood in the Cypress Creek area. St. John Lutheran in Cypress received major damage to a number of buildings
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