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General Synod has elected Pastor Stephen Schultz as Assistant Bishop of the LCANZ. Pastor Schultz has been serving the SA-NT District in the role of Assistant Bishop for Mission since 2018.

Gift. Grace. Gathered. Good (works). These words are ‘the four “Gs” of our gospel life as the church’, LCANZ Bishop Paul Smith told worshippers at today’s General Synod and St John’s Unley service.

This afternoon, 5 October 2024, General Synod resolved to support a proposal from the General Church Board and College of Bishops to remove from the LCA’s Theses of Agreement the paragraph (VI:11) which prohibits women from entering the pastoral ministry.

Ten LCANZ congregations will be supported in outreach endeavours through the inaugural grants from the church’s Local Mission Fund. The fund is designed to enhance a mission culture across the church.

Worshippers at the opening service of the LCA’s 21st Convention of General Synod in suburban Adelaide earlier today were in no doubt about the word of the day – and the word of the four-day event – grace.

by Bishop Paul Smith

This week our pastors from Australia and New Zealand have met at Concordia College, Highgate in South Australia, for their General Pastors Conference.