Eighty years of sharing hope

For eight decades, Lutheran Media has been providing Christian content for broadcast on radio stations in Australia and New Zealand, sharing hope in Jesus.

In more recent times, this hope has also been shared across multiple digital platforms.

In 2025, Lutheran Media will be celebrating its 80th anniversary. With more than 7 million listeners and a faithful supporter base, we want to thank God for our people and communities and reminisce about what has been achieved.

Lutheran Media will highlight inspiring stories of hope as we gather for key events to mark this milestone next year. On Saturday 21 June, a VIP ‘thank you’ lunch will be held at Kies Winery in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, while on Sunday 31 August, supporters are invited to join us for high tea at Concordia Lutheran College at Toowoomba in Queensland. The celebrations will round out on Sunday 2 November 2025, with an 80th anniversary celebration service and lunch at St Michael’s Lutheran Church at Hahndorf in SA.

Our history booklet 80 years of blessings will be launched in 2025, too. Sharing the story of Lutheran Media across the years, it features messages from past directors and our present manager, Dr Tania Nelson. It also includes stories from past and present supporters, staff, presenters, hosts and missional partners.

Over the years, Lutheran Media has expanded its reach across the airwaves and now produces printed and digital media and podcasts and shares gospel messages on social media.

Thank you to our supporters who have helped transform the way we share Christ in the world through media.

Through our supporter survey and in conversation with our listeners, we’ve heard multiple stories of transformation and hope – like John, who found our booklet on grief a much-needed help when his mother passed away.

By far, the most watched video is our feature ‘Dementia – this is our story’, with more than 1 million views and 4,000 comments, which have been mostly from people sharing their own heartbreaking stories and giving thanks for a message of hope in difficult times.

One supporter said: ‘I am always impressed when someone is in a bad place, and they hear a spot on Lutheran Media that changes their lives. God does great work through Lutheran Media.’

Romans 10:14 resonates with our mission at Lutheran Media. ‘How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?’

Let us continue to celebrate Lutheran Media and the ministry of Messages of hope as we work towards our shared vision of creating a world in which every individual finds hope, comfort and purpose through the power of uplifting and transformative Christian content.

Joanne Chamberlain is the Communication Co-ordinator for Lutheran Media.