At Irylea Lutheran Church, nestled in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), over 400 people packed the church to see, for the first time, a Lutheran Bible storybook written in their own language. At the September service to dedicate the Tok Pisin edition of A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories, a Sunday school … Read More
It was a sight to behold: in Bawku, northern Ghana, hundreds of Lutheran youth paraded through the streets to the palace of the paramount chief of the Kusasi tribe – who happens to be an idol worshipper. “Going to greet a chief or ‘big man’ is a traditional norm, so the youth went to his … Read More
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
March 2015 – Two thousand Bible storybooks, gone in less than two months. No, not stolen or destroyed. Instead, children and parents in Vietnam were so excited to find A Child’s Garden of Bible Stories in their own language that the books were all quickly claimed by families wanting to learn more about Jesus. For many Vietnamese … Read More
January 2015 – Imagine trying to teach a class with only one small textbook. There is no instructor’s manual, no teacher’s notes…and it’s a subject you don’t know a lot about. How well could you teach your students? Could you answer their questions? This is the situation faced by Sunday school teachers throughout Southeast Asia. Many … Read More