St. Paul and his companions

By REV Richard Ondicho

This study examines the men and women who travelled, laboured, suffered, and sometimes failed alongside the Apostle Paul. It uses them as a lens to understand collaborative leadership and missionary practice in early Christianity, read from an explicitly confessional Lutheran perspective. The book grew out of the author's ministry among the evangelists of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, East of Lake Victoria Diocese, where he trained lay evangelists serving congregations in and around Geita from 2001 to 2007. An older evangelist asked who Paul's companions were and how Paul came to have them, and that question gave rise to the inquiry. The book argues that Paul's companions are not decorative figures at the margins of the apostolic story. They shape the Gospel as it moves through history: earthen vessels carrying a divine treasure, vessels that can crack, chip, and even shatter. The study therefore reads the record of Paul's co-workers as an account of how the risen Christ gathers, sustains, and sends His church. He does so through the external Word and the Sacraments, and through called servants and baptised believers who carry that Word from place to place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6630599934
• ISBN13: 9786630599930
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Blessed Hope Publishing
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"