A late-August fire at a storage facility in Martyshkino, Russia has partially destroyed LHF’s supply of Russian-language Lutheran books housed there. “According to neighbors, about 20-30 youth were goofing around the area about a half-hour before the fire. The fire was started accidentally by [those] youth drinking and smoking on the wooden stairs of the … Read More
September 2015 – In 2002, Rev. Ted NaThalang (LHF’s coordinator for Southeast Asian projects) traveled into Cambodia to see if there were any Lutherans to be found. “I met with 12 Christian leaders from different denominations. They asked me, ‘What kind of Christian are you?’ I said, ‘I’m Lutheran.” And they asked, ‘What’s that?’ They had … Read More
September 2015 – When Carl Bassett left the Vietnam War behind in the mid-1970s, he left with a hardened heart. After years of seeing his fellow soldiers killed at the hands of enemy fighters, he couldn’t have cared less whether the Vietnamese people lived or died. So it was a poignant moment when Rev. Carl Bassett … Read More