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New ALWS head brings corporate experience and heart for the poor
Lifelong Lutheran and experienced business leader Michael Stolz has been appointed Executive Director of Australian Lutheran World Service.
General Synod to discuss ordination for fifth time
Six proposals relating to the ordination of both women and men have been submitted for consideration by delegates at February’s in-person sessions of the 20th Convention of General Synod, to be held in Melbourne.
Lutheran pastor honoured in Queen’s Birthday list
LCANZ pastor Darren Jaensch, who has served as the Australian Army’s Director General Chaplaincy since 2017, has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List.
Story of the Week
Missionary’s service honoured
Finke River Mission is arranging commemorative activities in Central Australia this month to mark the centenary of the death of Lutheran missionary Carl Strehlow. Pastor Strehlow is most remembered for his service among the Western Arrarnta people at Hermannsburg (Ntaria),
Read more ...Sharing Jesus’ love for the stranger
Have you been to a Middle Eastern supermarket with aisles full of exotic spices, nuts and sweets? LCANZ Cross-Cultural Ministry’s Craig Heidenreich shares a story from a visit to one such shop – it’s a story of Jesus’ love for newcomers.
Read more ...Walk My Way on the road again
Walk My Way is back for 2022 and already having an impact on the lives of children living as refugees. ALWS hopes to raise enough to support 10,000 children to go to school through its walking challenge again this year.
Read more ...Scripture, study and song under the desert sky
Approximately 60 people participated in the study sessions at the first Finke River Mission Bush Course for 2022, held recently outside Mount Liebig on the western edge of the greater MacDonnell Ranges, some 325km west of Alice Springs.
Read more ...Yirara College – many languages, many histories
Most students at Yirara College come from remote communities not connected with the Lutheran Church. But Pastor Basil Schild says when members of the college community worship together, Jesus’ mercy and love ‘unites us and draws us together’.
Read more ...Installation ‘joy and excitement’
It was with much joy and excitement that members of Outer Eastern Lutheran Church and Doncaster–Ivanhoe congregations came together for the installation of one of their members, Ed Blow, into word and sacrament ministry.
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