About Lutherans for Life
LFL was established by the Lutheran Church of Australia at the General Synod of the Church held in Adelaide, South Australia, in October, 1987. It is accountable to the LCA through the Commission on Social and Bioethical Issues.
The objectives of Lutherans for Life are:
- To promote respect and protection for human life, born and unborn, since God is its Creator.
- To foster community responsibility for the defence of God's gift of human life, especially those whose life others would categorise as unwanted, lacking quality, worthless, or otherwise dispensable.
Lutherans for Life co-operates with those persons and organisations who share its aims and values.
LFL in Action
- LFL members believe and seek to promote the understanding that human life begins at conception. We seek to gain public support for the protection of human life, especially for those persons, unborn and born, whose lives others would categorise as unwanted, lacking quality, worthless or otherwise dispensable. Thus LFL supports those pregnancy support service centres which do not refer women for abortion, but provide them with positive help during and after their pregnancy.
- LFL prepares suitable educational materials dealing with contemporary life and death issues, provides speakers, and organises seminars & workshops with the purpose of creating and/or maintaining a deep appreciation of God's gift of human life, along with the community's responsibility for the ongoing care and protection of human life.
- Lutherans for Life cooperates with those persons and organisations who share the same aims and values as LFL.
- A National Council supports and oversees the work, while a number of regional branches operate at the local level.
How is LFL supported?
LFL is dependent for funding from membership fees, donations, sponsorships, bequests and fundraising projects. It is not funded from the general budget of the LCA.
Lutherans for Life Logo
The logo was designed to illustrate the objectives of Lutherans for Life:
- To promote respect and protection for human life, born and unborn, since God is its
Creator.
- To foster community responsibility for the defence of God's gift of human life,
especially those whose life others would categorise as unwanted, lacking quality,
worthless, or otherwise dispensable.
The two figures on either side of the logo project a caring and protecting arm around the
central figure, suggesting family and community. The circular theme maintained within the
logo symbolises that life is part of eternity.
God's gift of human life is shown in the central figure, which symbolises a mother with
unborn child, the human embryo and the human cell (zygote) are living and developing
members of the human family.
The three figures are enveloped by the protective shadow of the cross of Christ, which
points to the saving act of God, through which people become members of His spiritual
family.
It is as we live under the cross that we learn about the sanctity of all human life, created
and redeemed by God.
Further Information
Coordinators
Rev Tim Kowald
32 Granville St, Semaphore Park SA 5019
tel 08 8449 6868
email: kowald@tpg.com.au
Dr Rob Pollnitz
13 Cranwell St, Glenside SA 5065
tel 08 8338 0970
email: pollnitz@senet.com.au
Other members
Joanna Hensley
214 Kent Road, Hamilton Vic 3300 (Editor of LFL Life News)
tel 03 5572 1779
email: joannahensley@gmail.com
Christine Lockwood
46a Cheltenham St, Highgate SA 5063 (Treasurer)
tel 08 8271 6230
email: lockwood@internode.on.net
For further information contact the LFL Council.
Disclaimer: Lutherans For Life distances itself from pro-life organisations and individuals who employ violent and unethical means in pursuing pro-life goals.
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