This is Aaron. Please pray for him.
If you worship with us on Sundays, you will usually hear, among the prayers of intercession, something like this: ”We pray for our partner churches in Romania and New York, and especially for Trinity in Long Island City, as they welcome Paul their new pastor.” If you are new here, you may wonder why, out of all the churches of the world, we are praying for these in particular.
Here’s why: they are our partners in a very direct and personal way. Terri and I were sent here by the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We are their missionaries. We keep them in prayer, and ask them to do the same for us.
Well, the synod has another missionary, as well. His name is Aaron Schutte, and he is in Tanzania, where he teaches at the Kibeta English-Medium Primary School. To learn more about him, read his blog. Kibeta may seem like a different world than Cluj, and his daily work — teaching children how to read and write — is very different from ours. But we share a ministry, which is to be living symbols of the connectedness among Christians all over the Earth.
So I ask you to keep our brother Aaron in your prayers, as you keep Terri and me. Pray for the Northwest Diocese of the Lutheran Church in Tanzania, as you pray for the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Romania. And remember that we are one in Christ.
