Lutheran Church of Australia

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Going GREYt!

In Going GREYT! we feature stories of some of our ‘more experienced’ people within the LCA, who are making a positive contribution in their retirement. We pray their examples of service will be an inspiration and encouragement to us all as we seek to be Christ’s hands and feet wherever we are, with whatever gifts and opportunities we’ve been given. These stories first appear in ‘The Lutheran’.

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Apr2022

Cracking the code of our hidden stories

by Helen Brinkman

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At Lutheran Archives in suburban Adelaide, up to 100 years of stories from Australia’s past are disguised in a largely forgotten handwritten German cursive script known as Kurrentschrift.

01
Mar2022

Finding a gift in the wood

by Helen Brinkman

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One of the first wood carvings Albert Noll ever created was a carved wooden message: ‘Blessed by the grace of God’.

01
Nov2021

Walking God’s way in the big blue

by Helen Beringen

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To Rosemary Lange, it looked almost like a blue waterfall coming towards the vineyard where she was waiting for her husband Kevin to appear from among the hundreds of blue shirt-clad walkers.

01
Oct2021

Blessed to follow God’s lead

by Helen Beringen

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Be careful of barbecue conversations, because you never know where they might lead! Especially if you are newly retired and have an open mind about where God might be leading you.

01
Sep2021

Sharing the love and Joy of music

by Helen Beringen

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Joy Mules was about three years old when she caught the music bug. In around 1938, the brass bands parading through the streets of Tanunda, in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, drew her away from her mother’s side to march off with one of them.

06
Aug2021

Warm welcomes build communities

by Helen Beringen

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It’s hard to go past a friendly smile greeting you at the door before Sunday worship, or that warm cup of tea or coffee after service. Isn’t that what makes our faith communities welcoming? Whether new faces or regulars, being made to feel welcome is how we connect as a community.