Feature Stories

A growing mission partnership between Wodonga Lutheran Parish and Victory Lutheran College in Victoria reached a joyful milestone last month with the baptism of a Year 3 student during the parish’s family chapel service.

On 21 June, Lutheran Media marked 80 years of ministry with a thank you lunch attended by nearly 100 people at Kies Family Wines in South Australia’s Barossa Valley.

Starting or expanding multiethnic ministries in church or school communities was a popular theme among LCANZ Local Mission Fund applications for this year, and St Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Brisbane hopes to build on its history of outreach among people of different cultures thanks to the grant.

The changes in Australian Lutheran College’s learning model and the widening of ordination pathways are making studying to become a pastor more accessible and appealing, say members of the current student cohort.

by Merryn Ruwoldt

The Australian Lutheran College community has plenty of reasons to be excited in Semester 1 this year – 18 of them in fact! That’s the number of current students seeking to enter ordained ministry in the LCANZ.

by Adrian Kitson

Pastor Adrian Kitson and the St Petri congregation at Nuriootpa in SA’s Barossa Valley were delighted to receive an LCANZ Local Mission Fund grant to further their vision for a regional learning hub.