| | | AFLC Missionary Connely Dyrud
Pastor Connely and Carolyn Dyrud began serving the Lord as missionaries in Brazil in 1969. Carolyn went home to be with the Lord on September 24th, 2005. Throughout the years they labored side by side at the Free Lutheran Bible School and Seminary at Campo Mourao, Parana, Brazil. Connely now serves Christ as a missionary at large, recruiting and training up a new generation of missionaries by teaching at the Ministry Training Institute of AFLBS. He travels throughout the United States promoting the cause of Missions. | |
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Thank you so much for being co-laborers with me and the AFLC mission this year. Your prayers and gifts mean so much. They are very important for sharing Christ’s love. May the Lord bless you now and forever more. A Blessed Christmas and New Year to you and your family. | |  Pastor Connely Dyrud
8938 Oakview Lane N Maple Grove, MN 55369 connely.dyrud@aflc.org PDF of Connely's Greeting | | | | Why was HE born here? ".....But when the time had fully come God sent His son......" Galatians 4:4-6 | | Why was Jesus born here? The exact time, place and person to whom Christ was to be born to was prophesied in the Old Testament. His mission on earth was also prophesied and accomplished. Redemption is a gift given to us so that we might live with Him eternally. That is way HE was born here, and we were born here too. 
| | Why was I born here? Why was I born to such unloving parents? Questions I’ve heard from people both in the USA and around the world. It is painful to hear people suffer at this time of year with these issues that have not been resolved. In Acts 17:26-27 we read that God “determined” our “time” and “exact place” for us to live on earth. This is God’s will so that “men would seek him and perhaps reach out to him, He is not far from each of us.” Isn’t that a wonderful promise to know for you and me? | | Why are you here? Many people have asked me that question at this time of the year with all this snow and cold, and then continue to say, “I’ll bet you wish you were back in Brazil where it’s nice all the time.” True! There are only two seasons there; NICE and NICER! I believe God has called me here, to this cold, to share the love of missions every day and to everyone I come in contact with today.
This last year I’ve continued teaching in the MTI, Bible School and travel to the AFLC Churches, Bible Camps sharing the call to missions both home and abroad. I’ll return to the AFLC Brazil mission to teach there for the month of March 2011. Thanks for praying for me! | |
