What a JOY to welcome the confirmation students from Immanuel Lutheran Church of Schleswig, Iowa for a special tour and event at Mission Central on January 19th, 2022! This wonderful group came and were able to dress up in hats and items from Latin and South America, as shown in the photo! They enjoyed seeing the animals from around the…
What a blessing to have Rev. Merle F. Mahnken and Rev. Kurt Kaiser from Immanuel Lutheran Church at Schleswig, Iowa come and welcome our dear Missionary from the Dominican Republic, Tirzah Krey. These pastors brought a group of their Confirmation Students to have the opportunity to hear a special report from Tirzah. Then the entire group was honored to pray…
I’m sure that each of our co-workers, missionaries, and you and I are absolutely sick of hearing day after day about “the virus”, and “when we are going to get back to NORMAL”….. When old Missionary Gary spoke on Sunday the 17th of January in both services and the Bible Class down in West Des Moines,….there was someone very, very special…
SPECIAL “NOT NORMAL” VOLUNTEERS COME TO VISIT AND WORK AT MISSION CENTRAL! What an absolute JOY to welcome one of the reasons we have been able to continue our work here at the Lord’s Mission Central for 28 years! Yes, we couldn’t continue this work without the aid of over 100 volunteers that the Lord has sent to help with…
January 8th, 2022 was a special Saturday and we had a very, very wonderful group of NOT NORMAL people who came from Sioux City, Walnut, Ute, Harlan, Denison, and Charter Oak, Iowa! This group of folks came to hear the report made by Rev. James Sharp and his family who for 7 years have been serving people in total darkness…
From a farm down by Ute, Iowa a long, long-time friend came to visit Mission Central on January 8th, 2022, to start the new year in the best way. The Honorable Missionary Otto Kunze came to visit and help send the Sharp Family from Uruguay in South America, on their journey back to their calling where this family has worked…
What an absolute JOY to receive guests from Sherburn, Minnesota, Lincoln, Nebraska, Council Bluffs, Iowa and Mapleton, Iowa for a day tour here at the world famous Mission Central on December 28th, 2021. Yes, it was a day we will long remember, as a group of special people the Lord sent to spend the day here at the Lord’s Mission…
WOW, how the Rev. James and Angelia Sharp Family has grown! All the way from Montevideo, Uruguay on December 28th, 2021, we were so, so happy to welcome the Sharp Family, and they must be feeding their children special food to make them grow up so quickly. The Sharp family had to have their family photo updated at our trademark…
The Good Lord had a special plan for Linda Sharp. She was to be the mother of one of our finest missionaries that the Lord would call to his special calling in South America! Yes, 7 years ago God called Rev. James Sharp and his family to be our very first missionaries to serve in the darkest Christian location in…
How in the world do we feed all of the thousands of visitors that come to the Lord’s Mission Central? That’s a question that a lot of people ask us here at this MIRACLE PLACE! The answer is really easy! It’s because the Good Lord sends special Volunteer cooks. That’s what happened on December 28th, 2021 when on that Tuesday…
Yes, we have very, very NOT NORMAL people arrive at Mission Central, even at 7:00AM on a Monday morning. December 27th, 2021, was no exception, when Dr. David Reddel and his rescue dog, Grace, arrived for a special visit and delivery. Dr. Reddel was also delivering a MOST NEEDED resource here at the Lord’s Mission Central. For many years we…
What a blessing to welcome The Honorable Missionary Dr. Steve Meyer from Sioux City, Iowa who arrived here at Mission Central for a tour with his associate The Honorable Missionary Kevin Brown of Sioux City, Iowa. These two men are responsible for an amazing ministry of reaching out to families, children, and an orphanage in Tanzania, where Dr. Meyer has…
What a JOY and blessing to welcome Missionary Cookie Delivers, the brothers, Honorable Ron and Randy Koopmans from St. Paul Lutheran Church at Ireton, Iowa! Ron and Randy arrived in the afternoon of December 13th, 2021, and they had in tow, hundreds and hundreds of wonderful homemade cookies that were needed so desperately here at the Lord’s Mission Central! These…
One of the real “challenges” that we have in the world is the fact that there are some countries that DO NOT ALLOW CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES to come into certain areas of the world. However, we need to support, pray and encourage these special people, who have to be very careful about their work. That’s what happened here on Wednesday the…
It was one of those MIRACLE DAYS at Mission Central! The Lord sends special Not NORMAL people to send gifts at JUST THE RIGHT TIME! Yes, that’s what happened on November 26th when OLD MISSIONARY GARY opened nearly 300 envelopes to help the Lord’s missionaries! Here you see that stack of blessings! What a JOY to hear from the people…
One of the JOYS of this life is the gift of friendship and love with special Christian Families. Special families that know the Lord Jesus, and who are not of the world, but are the Lord’s people in the world. People that fully understand what we are doing here on earth…..and that is telling others about our dear Lord Jesus….
November 17th, 2021 was a special day here at the Lord’s Mission Central! It was the day that we had the honor and privilege of welcoming Rev. Brad Birtell and Rev. Rempfer and their students from St. John Lutheran School at rural Columbus, Nebraska. This group of young people were some of the best students that we had the privilege…
Two very NOT NORMAL people came from Knoxville, Iowa and stopped here at Mission Central, not expecting to find old Missionary in his office. To their surprise, Old Missionary Gary, was indeed in his office, and we had a time specially appointed, for Missionaries Roger and Cindy Todd to make their “walk in” tour happen. What a real JOY to…
For over 25 years the Honorable Dr. David Reddel, Executive Volunteer Webmaster, Video Director and Ariel Photographer has been such a HUGE blessing here at Mission Central. Dave and his family live in Omaha, and who would be willing to drive to Mission Central on a Sunday afternoon to work for 4 hours compiling a historic video and taking…
As soon as this couple arrived at Mission Central, I could tell Immediately that they were NOT NORMAL! Who would drive all the way from Hanover, Kansas to see an old set of farm buildings??? MISSIONARIES KEN AND JAN HEUER would do it!!! They are farm people and they are truly NOT NORMAL!!! They enjoyed their tour and I know…
Some normal people just come to visit Mission Central, and then they “been there done that”, and it’s years before they come back. But that sure wasn’t the case with the wonderful NEW Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church of Boone, Iowa. Yes, the Missionary Pastor Jess Heimer in just a couple of weeks came back to visit a SECOND…
The Lord continues to send new missionaries here to HIS Mission Central! They seem to arrive at “just the right time”, and what a JOY to meet so many of the people that come here, that the Lord sends. Yes, that sure was the case on November 5th, 2021, on that Saturday the Lord sent Rev. Phil and Rachel Jaseph…
What a JOY to see how the Lord works. It was a day that old Missionary had some time to do his office work and get caught up on important contacts that needed to be made that was on laying on his desk in his office. A car drove by, and then that car turned around and stopped at the…
What a blessing and JOY to welcome four special NOT NORMAL missionaries to the world-famous Lord’s Mission Central on November 2nd, 2021! Yes, Missionaries Dr. Richard Hildebrand, Patty Fundum, Susan VonMinden and Sallie Book came for a special personal tour of the facilities. With them, this special group brought four (4) wonderful turkey’s to be used at Mission Central. What…
FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN SCHOOL AT SPENCER, IOWA PROVIDES A MIRACLE! What a blessing to have the privilege of speaking in both services and the Bible Class at the very “mission minded” First English Lutheran Church at Spencer, Iowa. However, what a SHOCK, when at the end of the services the representative of the Lutheran School there at Spencer came forward…
All of the special missionaries that attended the Fall Rally of the Iowa District West LWML will never, never forget the special speaker for the Fall Rally. Yes, all the way from the Czech Republic, the Honorable Missionary Chelsea Irwin came and totally “blew the socks off” all of the people that heard her presentation! Here you see this SUPER…
What a blessing to welcome the Iowa District West LWML Fall Rally at the world-famous Lord’s Mission Central on Saturday the 23rd of October! The attendance was just perfect, and President Jane Morris did just a super-excellent job of leading the meeting. Here in these photos you will see the NOT NORMAL LWML District Counselor, the Honorable Rev. Merle F….
Friday the 22nd of October 2021 was a special day as it was set aside for the arrival of some very, very special NOT NORMAL friends. What a blessing to welcome these special missionary friends from Bellevue, Madison, Seward and Omaha, Nebraska and also from Clarinda, Iowa. These dear friends came for the very first time to this MIRACLE PLACE…
We love to have youth and adults come to visit the Lord’s Mission Central! However, it’s the YOUTH that are going to be the Christian Leaders of tomorrow. When youth come here to this MIRACLE PLACE they are sworn in as Missionaries the rest of their lives. A special group of youth and adults came here on October 13th, 2021,…
What a HUGE, HUGE BLESSING to welcome Rev. James and Christel Neuendorf of Puerto Rico and Deaconess Kim Bueltmann of Leipzig, Germany to come and present and report at Mission Central! It was truly a day that we will long, long remember. Here you see the collection of the pictures taken this special day at the Miracle Mission Central…
What a JOY to welcome our special missionary friends from Faith Lutheran in Holstein, Iowa to Mission Central on October 9th, 2021! It was such a blessing to have Rev. Scott Neumann and his dear family and members of the Church there come to visit the Lord’s Mission Central. Here you see this special group in the Lord’s Creation Theater…
What a JOY and BLESSING to have the next generation of our churches come and to sworn in as missionaries the rest of their lives. That’s just what happened on the evening of Wednesday the 6th of October, when a group of youth came from St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ida Grove, Iowa under the direction of Missionary Pastor Neil…
People who are truly NOT NORMAL will be willing to drive from Rapid City, South Dakota all the way to little old Mission Central in the hills of western Iowa to see this place in the middle of nowhere! Yes, that’s just what Jerry and Pat Jessen did on Monday the 4th of October! They wanted to see the facilities,…
What a JOY to welcome some absolutely amazing NOT NORMAL people all the way from Neligh, Nebraska on September 28th, 2021. This happened because the Lord sent a special Pastor Rev. Noland Bartens and his wife and the Honorable Missionaries, Darrell and Marlene Timm to organize and bring a group of very special people who are in the world, but…
It was a very, very special day, when our dear long, long time missionary friend in Christ, the Honorable George Mack from Algona Iowa came to visit Mission Central. George and Gary have been friends for nearly 50 years, and without God sending special friends like George, old Missionary Gary could NOT have kept on serving the Lord Jesus…
At Mission Central we are always so happy to pray for and send missionaries with our blessings and encouragement. Most of the time we have individual missionaries, couples and families, but on September 25th, 2021 we SENT A RECORD OF SENDING FIVE (5) MISSIONARIES AT ONE TIME! In the pictures of the missionaries seated left to right, you will see…
What a joy to see the cars and bus from Trinity Lutheran Church of Algona, Iowa roll into Mission Central on Saturday the 25th of September! These special friends wanted to come and spend a tour day at this MIRACLE PLACE! In these photos you will see the group at the sign, being fed in the Ministry Center and also…
Two very, very special ladies wanted to visit Mission Central. They only had a limited amount of time…and the only time they could come was early in the morning….and so, at 7:50AM they came to visit the world-Famous Mission Central. Yes, the daughter, Jodi Shull of Hornick, Iowa came to Mission Central with her dear mom, Gloria Wiemer of Seward,…
We have thousands of people that the Lord sends to HIS Mission Central. However, one of the groups that Old Missionary Gary enjoys having more than any ARE THE YOUNG STUDENTS THAT COME FOR A SPECIAL TOUR OF THE LORD’S CREATION THEATER, THE BARN MUSEUM AND THE MINISTRY CENTER. One of the MOST ATTENTIVE GROUPS THAT EVER HAVE VISITED THE…
It was one of those “real miracle days”. It was a very, very heavy schedule day with work and appointments on Saturday morning the 18th of September. There was so much to do and also work had to be done at the end of the day. Old Missionary Gary, was supposed to be there…it was all planned out, when two…
What a JOY to have the privilege and honor of welcoming Pastor Jessten Heimer, and Principal Amy from the Trinity Lutheran School in Boone, Iowa for an afternoon tour. Here you see this special group by the sign and some of the students that were dressed like people from “Around the World” in the barn museum. It was a very…
What a special blessing to welcome the new pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church at Boone, Iowa. Just in the ministry for about 3 months, and this dear shepherd was willing to come and visit our location here at the Lord’s Mission Central! This really touched the heart of old Missionary Gary. Here you see the Rev. Jessten Heimer at the…
What a JOY and blessing to welcome some very special friends from Waterloo, Iowa. Yes, Don and Ann are special friends that cared enough to drive over to visit Mission Central. It would have been so easy to just “pass by”…and not take the time to stop, but, what a blessing to have these friends see what the Lord has…
What a blessing to welcome a very, very special group of youth and adults to Mission Central on Wednesday evening on September 15th, 2021! It was a special group of very NOT NORMAL people who cared enough to spend some time at this NOT NORMAL place, where we tell people about our Jesus! Rev. Jonathan Riggert and his family brought…
FRIENDS COME FROM DESHLER, NEBRASKA! Each day we have the privilege here at the Lord’s Mission Central to welcome truly special people! To make the effort to come nearly 4 hours to visit this NOT NORMAL PLACE…is something that normal people would not do!!! However, on September 9th, 2021 Dennis and Joyce Schmidt of Deshler, Nebraska came for a special…
What a JOY and blessing to welcome a special group that was put together by our wonderful missionary friends, the Honorable Missionaries Bob and Dottie Zink from Omaha, Nebraska. It always takes a special NOT NORMAL couple to organize a trip, and that’s just what Bob and Dottie did on September 7th, 2021! What a JOY to welcome these folks…
One of our long, long time friends, the Honorable Missionary Bonard Christiansen of Schleswig, Iowa brought two of his special family members to come and visit the world-famous Mission Central. They enjoyed the tour of the Ministry Center, the Lord’s Creation Theater and the Barn Museum. It was a special day for these dear friends, and what a JOY to…
What a special JOY and blessing to welcome the Honorable Missionary Pastor Daniel Steeb and the members of his congregation from Immanuel Lutheran Church at Logan, Iowa to Mission Central to enjoy a tour of this MIRACLE place! It was a very special time as the Bible Class wanted to make a “mission tour” and come and see this miracle…
What an amazing 2 cousins came from Vancouver, Washington and Peoria, Illinois to visit the World-Famous Mission Central. Yes, NOT NORMAL people are willing to drive that far to visit Mission Central. On Friday the 3rd of September 2021, we were able to welcome Mike Schallhorn and Tim Peterson to visit Mission Central. Mike Schallhorn is from Peoria, Illinois and…
Longtime friends are special in this journey we call life! For nearly 60 years, the friendship of Retired Airforce Officer, James E. Sands Jr. and Gary Thies has been a blessing.
