After more than 70 years of providing financial services and funding support to Lutherans in New Zealand, the Lutheran Laymen’s League of NZ is set to close.

In a first for the LCA/NZ, a Lutheran theological intensive course was presented in Mandarin at Australian Lutheran College earlier this month.

Being a Christian chaplain in a government school means you can’t explicitly preach the good news of Jesus to students, but that suits Sharon Salomon just fine because there’s no rule against living the gospel as an example.

by Pastor Jon Goessling

Kids are very different from how they used to be, and yet, kids are very much the same as they always have been.

by Rev John Henderson

What an amazing, generous God we have! While we humans anxiously wring our hands and get sore heads from worrying about who is right and who is wrong, who is in and who is out, what we should do and what we shouldn’t do, God just comes along and overturns it all.

by Malcolm Willcocks

Pantjiti Unkari McKenzie from Docker River has been honoured with the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service with the Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory.