Texas CEF News
Taking Time to Say Thank You
My favorite artist is Vincent Van Gogh. I love the way he experimented with shades of the same color. Very late in his life, he completed the work "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers". It is alluded to in his letters that he found sunflowers to be a symbol of...
Building for the Future
Enjoy the latest construction update from Steven Cashio, Business Manager at Zion Lutheran Church and School in Walburg. What a wonderful example of your investments at work! The speed of construction has been picking up over the last few weeks. The roof...
Meeting Community and Kingdom Growth
Construction progresses on the expansion project at Zion in Walburg. Wonderful Gospel opportunities abound as these initiatives move toward completion. What a privilege to serve more and more in the sweet name of Jesus!!! The new narthex will provide square footage...
Finding Our Voice
Amidst the chaotic times in which we live, churches, including St. John in Athens, have been forced to cultivate new and innovative ways to reach out with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Technology has become an essential mode of communication for ministry. As...
The Family of Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool Persists in the Mission of Christ
The Family of Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool partnered with the Texas Church Extension Fund two years ago to bring foundational education and Gospel-centered worship to a second location. This second location is located 6 miles to the west of the original...
Impacting Lives for Christ
There was a humble, hardworking farmer who lived in north Texas. You would probably have described him as a minimally educated, apparently poor, country farmer. If you knew him though, you would see he was a frugal man who really didn't need much too live on. He had...
Dedication at St. John in Athens
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. Ecclesiastes 7:14 Before our daily lives, including how and where we worship, changed due...
Walking in His Word
Deut. 28:9: “The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.” Learning how to walk a new way is always hard. We strive in our lives to make headway on the paths...
Chipping Away
St. John Lutheran in Athens has been around since the early 1980’s. As with all churches and our lives, things change. We get older. We make mistakes. We do our best to mend what we can, but sometimes things just flat fall apart. This facility is a living example of...
Family of Faith
On the Third Sunday in Advent, The Family of Faith Lutheran Church was blessed to have the preschool student populations from its two ministry locations (Houston and Cypress) unite their talents in a single Christmas worship service. The average weekly worship...