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Feb2021

Workers needed at Hermannsburg

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The LCA’s Finke River Mission (FRM) urgently needs workers to fill a range of positions at Hermannsburg (Ntaria) in the Northern Territory.

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14
Feb2021

Transfiguration – a four-act play

by Martin Oldfield

‘“Listen to him!” Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus’ (Mark 9:7b,8).

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13
Feb2021

This word speaks directly to you!

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed’ (Psalm 2:1).

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12
Feb2021

Complete conversion

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him’ (Acts 10:34,35).

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11
Feb2021

Get it done!

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field’ (Matthew 9:37,38).

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10
Feb2021

2018 General Synod delegate postal vote

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Delegates to the LCA’s Convention of General Synod in 2018 are being asked to vote in a postal ballot ahead of this year’s Convention.

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10
Feb2021

Ordination joy despite lockdown

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Despite a COVID-19 lockdown forcing a last-minute change, Stanley Roberts was ordained in unique circumstances as a Specific Ministry Pastor (SMP) at Papunya in the NT. With LCA/NZ Bishop John Henderson unable to travel due to the snap lockdown, Stanley was ordained by another SMP.

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10
Feb2021

Radical ministry

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father”. But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead”’ (Matthew 8:21,22). 

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09
Feb2021

A promise for those feeling crushed

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘I live in the high and holy places, but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed’ (Isaiah 57:15b).

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08
Feb2021

A word for the fearful

by Pastor Stephen Abraham

‘Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear”’ (Isaiah 55:4a).

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