Month: June 2012

Rev. Fritz Baue wrote a song called Buzz Off! to support the LCMS Lutheran Malaria Initiative.  You can hear it at Al Colvers blog at WMLT by clicking on the Witness, Mercy and Life Together blog spot on the right hand side of...

I like my garden and enjoy spending time there.  I am getting ready for the funeral service for Mark Kreklau later on this morning and remembered something that Mark said in all the difficulty of the last weeks in hospital and...

Mark Kreklau, 70, of Drayton, North Dakota passed away on Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks. You can read the official obit in many places.  The funeral will be held at Immanuel in Grand Forks on Monday...

“Ex Africa semper aliquid novi”.  Pliny the Elder or Aristotle, or another one of those old Greek guys actually turned this phrase that became the title of a marvelous book by Karen Blixen (Isaak Dineson) –...

“The top reason people participate in short-term missions is for the life-changing experience it promises them.” David A. Livermore, Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Grand...