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Yala

Confirmand Sends Gospel to Nigeria

Friday, July 31, 2020

Faithful LHF supporter Beata Raedeke writes: “Chipper is 14. He is my great-grandson. My late husband and I assumed custody of him when he was two years old. “I was directly involved with Chipper’s confirmation instruction [at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Loveland, Colorado] for the past two years. Parents are encouraged by Pastor Nierman … Read More

Nigeria: Why do we need the Reformation?

Monday, October 2, 2017

by Rev. Dr. Michael Adoga Rector, Jonathan Ekong Memorial Lutheran Seminary Why do we need the Reformation to come to Nigeria? For the same reason that Dr. Martin Luther offered his solution some 500 years ago, when he undertook the task of translating the Old and the New Testaments into his mother tongue (the German … Read More

Nigeria’s Yala Catechism Nearing Completion

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

October 2011 – Yalaland might sound like a make-believe country in a child’s imagination, but the region in southeast Nigeria is quite real. There, the Yala people mostly make their living by raising crops like yams, cassava and rice. And on Sundays, hundreds of Yala worship at one of Yalaland’s 10 Lutheran congregations. However, Yala Lutherans … Read More