The LCA’s youth camping ministries – including Christian Life Week events – will receive a boost of more than $200,000 over the next three years, thanks to the LLL.

LCA congregations which support overseas organisations are now responsible for ensuring their donations get to the right places and in the right way.

LCA Bishop John Henderson has asked church members to pray for churchwide leaders as they take part in a special meeting about ordination later this week.

What if prayer meant saying less … and listening more. What if prayer meant being quiet and still … and waiting. What if prayer didn’t change things … but changed you.

Sunday 6 October was ‘a day of great celebration’ at St John’s Lutheran Church at Geelong in Victoria as James Ruei was ordained as a Specific Ministry Pastor to the South Sudanese community there.

Pastor Rosendale treated all people as equal, his pastor, David Spanagel, said to the mourners who gathered to remember him on Friday 4 October in his hometown Hope Vale in Queensland.