Karen and Heather interview Michelle Solberg about Military Chaplain Ministry and life. 

Michelle is a Military Chaplain’s wife as well as a mom. In this episode, we talk about what a Military Chaplain does and what life is like. We talk about the struggles and the joys. Michelle shares about the journey of moving to a new place during the pandemic and connecting the women through bible study; this ministry went from a few people meeting over Zoom to the large, thriving, multigenerational ministry that it is now. 

We talk about the challenges of needing to trust others even when we don’t know them well and how God meets our needs.  

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https://clbforge.org/podcast/beautifully-woven/

In this episode, Grace for the Grind and Beautifully Woven team up to interview David Zahl. 

David Zahl is the author of the book “Low Anthropology.”  He is passionate about communicating deep theological truths in a way we can all understand. 

In this podcast, David shares why he wrote the book. We talk about what anthropology is and how our understanding of that frames the way we see the world and people. We talk about why a high anthropology divides but a low anthropology unites and how this helps us love our neighbor. 

“Low Anthropology” is the book WMCLB is using for our cohorts this fall. It was also one of the books that was given as a resource to all of our leaders at the Elevate youth convention. 

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https://mbird.com/shop/books/low-anthropology/  (Link to the book, you can also find it on Amazon.) 

https://clbforge.org/all-podcasts/

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In this episode, Karen and Heather interview Josiah Militzer and Ashley Krog about the CLB youth convention ‘Elevate.’

This past July, the CLB held its Biennial Youth Convention in Estes Park, CO, at the YMCA of the Rockies. Josiah and Ashley were both there as youth leaders with their youth groups. Josiah went with a large youth group from Bethel Lutheran Church, and Ashley went with a smaller youth group from Elim Lutheran Brethren Church. 

We talk about their different experiences, what they loved, what benefitted their youth kids, and how they raised funds to go! 

Join us for this fun conversation and learn more about what God is doing in our youth! We hope your youth group considers coming to Elevate 2026! 

At our WMCLB Convention we heard from three different women share about Together in Mission. Here is our final speaker from that day, Mandy Bronson. 

Mandy shares about Together in Mission in a Family.

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At our WMCLB Biennial Convention we heard from three different women share about Together in Mission. In this episode we will hear from Joyce Rust.

Joyce shares about the Ministry of "Welcome"

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At our WMCLB Convention we heard from three different women share about Together in Mission. Here is the first of our speakers from that day, Katie Koplin.

Katie shares about Together in Mission in Vocation: God's Work and Our Hands

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Live Podcast with Grace for the Grind and Beautifully Woven.

Karen, Heather, Dan and Mike sit down at Biennial 2024 for our first live podcast event! In this episode we field questions from our live audience on the spot. The questions ranged from “what are our most embarrassing ministry moments?”, “are the Stenberg’s hoping for another baby?”, “does God control everything in my life and if so does that mean I can’t make my own decisions?”, to “what are somethings we do to build healthy culture in our churches?”

We have a lot of laughs as well as a few serious thoughts on this episode. 

A big thanks to O’Crepe who catered our event!

WMCLB Website: https://www.wmclb.org
Oh Crepe Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094325597247"

Grace for the Grind: https://clbforge.org/all-podcasts/

We have another joint episode with Beautifully Woven and Grace for the Grind. Karen and her husband Daniel host a joint podcast as they interview Carl and Emily Juhl, our church planting couple in Lincoln, ND.

We talk about what ministry looks like at their church plant, the ups and downs of ministry, and some ways they are getting into their community and connecting with people.

They also share about how life has changed since adding some wonderful foster children to their family.

You can find out more about our CLB church plants here: https://clba.org/churchplanting

You can find 'Grace for the Grind' here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grace-for-the-grind/id1518916698

and here: https://clbforge.org/podcast/

Sign up for our WMCLB Biennial here: wmclb.org

Karen and Gianna finish our mini series talking about how mental health affects our vocations.

God calls us to love others and participate in our churches and communities, how do we do this when we don't feel like it?

We talk about our church culture, how do we know if we have a healthy church culture regarding mental health?

Gianna give us some practical questions to think about when it comes to our church culture.

Contact us at WMCLB.org

Also sign up for our BC24 WMCLB Biennial on that same website. We are looking forward to being together!

Karen continues in our Mental Health and Our Faith series with Gianna Reese as we dive into the topic of anxiety. We talk about the healthy function of anxiety and when it crosses over into an unhealthy function.

How do we understand Scripture in context when it tells us to not be anxious. If we can't stop ourselves from dealing with feelings of anxiety is that a failure in our faith?

Gianna explains what it means to live in the "and". This helps us understand our inner battles that we face.

No matter your mental state, leave feeling encouraged that Christ has fulfilled the law on your behalf. We are whole in Christ as he walks with us through our battle.

Find Gianna Reese on Tic Toc @the.millenniel.therapist

Register for our 2024 Biennial on June 8th @ https://www.wmclb.org/