Faith'n'Family - CUNE South Africa International Tour; Fritsche Missionary Family

CUNE’s A Capella Choir Goes to South Africa

Guest Dr. Kurt von Kampen, Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department, and Director of Choral Activities for Concordia University Nebraska, discusses the value of music ensembles for college students and what a joy it’s been for him to conduct these choirs. The CUNE A Capella Choir will be touring South Africa for 20 days, and they are excited for this life-changing experience. Read the press release about this tour at cune.edu/about/archive/music-news-archive/concordia-universitys-cappella-choir-perform-throughout-south-africa.

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Fritsche Missionary Family, Serving the Lord in the Dominican Republic

Guests Rev. Joel & Clarion Fritsche and their children Viktor, Sergei, and Andrei join us in studio to talk about what it’s like serving the Lord as career missionaries in the Dominican Republic. Learn more about the Fritsche family, including prayer requests and birthdays, at lcms.org/fritsche.

Read a snippet of their bio: Rev. Joel and Clarion Fritsche serve the Lord as career missionaries of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) in the Dominican Republic. In this role, Joel plants new churches in this country. He forms and develops groups of believers into mature, self-sustaining and self-replicating congregations through Word and Sacrament ministry. Joel also serves as the director of Concordia Seminary and Mercy Center in Palmar Arriba (which is in the Santiago province of the Dominican Republic). As director, he teaches courses and helps prepare men to be pastors who proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this country and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Learn more at lcms.org/fritsche.

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Sarah Gulseth

A proud Michigan native and fan of anything with the Mitten State on it, Digital Media Manager Sarah Gulseth is also a lover of historical war movies and anything with the label PBS Masterpiece. An avid bicyclist and women’s biking advocate, she rides her bike to work year-round and has the massive bike clothing and accessory collection to prove it. If it’s the weekend, she and her husband Luther are probably out riding bikes, or finding the next awesome coffee shop to frequent, or rehearsing for the next choir concert. You may also find her down a new rabbit hole on Google, researching the latest random fact she found on social media, while eating an unhealthy amount of apples (Macintosh from Michigan, of course) and raw almond butter.