THE WORD AT WORK Volume 24 Number 5
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September/October 2017
LHF FOUNDER LOOKS BACK ON 25 YEARS IN MISSION “It’s not something I talk about very much, but as I look can in the Red Square area, and we didn’t find a single back on it, it’s clear that the Lord had a path arranged for Bible or discarded tract. Everything disappeared!” the Lutheran Heritage Foundation from the time I went to During his time in Russia, Rev. Rahn saw a hurdle to tellmy first call as a Lutheran pastor,” recalled Rev. Robert Rahn, ing the people about Jesus: there was very little Lutheran who together with a Board of Directors headed by Rev. literature available in the language of the people. Robert Preus, founded So from the basement “I’m here to raise a banner for the Lord, and I’m of his home, Rev. Rahn LHF on Nov. 10, 1992. It was a time of looking for people who will stand with us on the started LHF, a mission oramazing opportunity. ganization that 25 years truth of Scripture.” – Rev. Robert Rahn The atheistic Soviet later would be translating Union had collapsed and for the first time in 70 years, doors and publishing confessional Lutheran literature for people were open to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with peoin more than 80 countries and 100 languages. ple living behind the Iron Curtain. “LHF’s new executive director, Rev. Matt Heise, has Rev. Rahn seized the opportunity by traveling to Moscow, brought a wealth of mission experience and connections to where he and a few friends distributed Bibles and tracts in the mission, and this bodes well for the future,” Rev. Rahn Red Square. said. “It was Reformation Day 1992, and we decided to test the “My vision for the next 25 years is for LHF to be at work degree of religious freedom in Russia,” he said. “It was a in all areas of the world where the Truth needs to be taught smooth operation. What was most significant was that after and demonstrated. There’s a hunger for the understanding the literature was distributed, we checked every garbage of Scripture, and we have the materials that can fill that gap.”
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